[Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator

[Matthew Boehm]

Here is what I am looking for: picture a cisco catalyst switch. (or any
24port rackmount switch thats 1U).
Plug into ports 1-23, a single PRI.
Plug a 100Megabit (or gigabit) ethernet cable into Port 24 that goes
directly to asterisk.

Now you have 1 cable to/from asterisk that can handle all 23 pri's. kinda
like a channel bank for FX but for PRI.

got anything like that?

-Matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W. Kevin Hunt" <Kevin at hbcorporate.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 7:12 AM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator


Adtran Atlas 800+ w/ PRI cards
wonderfull box w/ a fairly powerfull dialplan

W. Kevin Hunt

CCIE #11841
MCSE, Linux+ SME
www.huntbrothers.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> Matthew Boehm
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:24 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> 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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