[Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator

[Matthew Boehm]

CopperCom makes our switch. Its a piece of crap.

-Matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael B. Murdock" <mike123 at switchmaxx.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator


> We are looking to solve the same problem for different reasons.. I am
> currently looking into the Lucent (Ascend) MAX TNT to terminate the PRI's
> and then use VoIP/SIP to connect to the Asterisk platform.
>
> BTW: Who makes your class-3 switch you are having so much trouble with?
>
> -- Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthew Boehm" <mboehm at cytelcom.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:24 PM
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator
>
>
> > Hey gang,
> >  We currently have a class 3 switch (CSX) that..well..it sucks. It does
> > terrible CDR writes, doesn't support LCR, the list goes on and on. We
want
> > to replace this with several asterisk boxes each running one or two 4
port
> > PRI cards.
> >  The problem is: I can plug in 20 PRI lines into the CSX (from PSTN) and
> > have 1 come from CSX into asterisk. If 1 call comes in on each of the 20
> > pris, the CSX concentrates them into 1 pri into asterisk. Thus I only
need
> a
> > single PRI card for asterisk box.
> >
> >  If I want to completly replace the CSX, I would need several boxes with
1
> > or 2 4 port cards. But that is a big waste of money when I can
concentrate
> > into less cables.
> >
> >  Does anyone know of some piece of hardware (other than a carrier
switch)
> > that will do the same thing? Keeping our current switch doesn't cost
> > anything except in terms of power consumption and physical space (its
like
> > 5U or 8U).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew
> >
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