[Asterisk-Users] PSTN and POTS

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 02:53, Tielman Koekemoer wrote:
> One more thing, are POTS and PSTNs not the same things? I get confused
> when people say something about configging 16 POTS and 16 PSTN ports on
> a device.

POTS and PSTN are kind of like square and rectangle. POTS is PSTN, but
PSTN is not necessarily POTS. PSTN can be delivered on E1, T1, by fibre
or copper, or any other technology. POTS refers to analog lines.

POTS = Plain Old Telephone System. 
PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network.



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Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>