<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Asterisk isn't a big iron switch. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/b</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:15:25AM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:</FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Asterisk is a PBX.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A softswitch is more or less a fully featured<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">telephone switch, usually one that is extensively application-driven</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(more so than traditional big-iron switches) and multiprotocol. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hmmm, Still describes Asterisk.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>