[Asterisk-Users] OT: DS3 -> VoIP Hardware Recommendations

[Tom]

At 11:47 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
>Tom wrote:
>>At 10:06 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>  We are looking for some hardware requirements/recommendations to be 
>>> able to handle a full DS3's worth of TDM -> VoIP traffic. The DS3 would 
>>> bring 24 calls per T1 x 28 T1s = 672 simultaneous calls. We would then 
>>> need to convert those calls into G729 SIP VoIP calls to send to our 
>>> asterisk box over ethernet. Since everything is going in/out of 
>>> asterisk is 729, and no features are needed, I think it can handle the 
>>> routing. If not, I can whip up a SER box.
>>>
>>>  We currently have a Cisco 7206VXR (1 voice resource) and a Cisco 
>>> AS5300 (120 voice resources). The DS3 will also have SS7 signaling on it.
>>>
>>>Recommendations/comments/concerns/rants are graciously welcomed.
>>
>>Lucent TNT
>
>Lucent's goto sleep after 5 min of no activity. At least the one they had 
>here did. They have boycotted them.

Could have been a firmware issue.  We have been testing a TNT gateway setup 
right now with * and don't have any problem.

Tom

>But thanks for suggestion.
>
>-Matthew