[Asterisk-Dev] TDB & TDMoE

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Gary wrote:

> The background to this which many of the answers I will admit I simple
> don't know involved a wholesale ISP which current is thinking of putting
> their own switches in to talk to our main/largest/incumbent telco
> (telstra - australia). I didn't dare bring up things like SS7 (as I
> really couldn't explain enough to this particular person. He recently
> moved most of his data interfacing from HSSI to ATM and in thelarger
> areas moving to direct Ethernet. which then led to discussion of
> ethernet interfacing....
> 
> So if normal Telco switches talk TDM, why can't he interface with TDMoE
> ?
> 
> So are any of the major switches (Ericsson, Lucent, Siemens) capable of
> TDMoE ?
No. TDMoE is not quite TDM. Its almost like TDM, or as close as you can 
get to TDM over a shared media.

> There has been previous discussion of using OC3 etc, which led to these
> thoughts/questions :-)
This is a -users question.