[asterisk-users] asterisk as a softswitch

[Russell Bryant]

Clayton Milos wrote:
> It is really a soft switch. Not a good one for high carrier class telco 
> usage I'd say but just fine for office PBX replacement, which is what it was 
> designed for. What it is missing AFAIK that a carrier class switch has to 
> have is a SS7 stack. The world's TDM exchanges use SS7 to route calls and 
> most carrier class soft switches can do SS7 over ip.

chan_zap in Asterisk trunk has SS7 support using libss7, a library written by
Matthew Fredrickson, who works at Digium.  Some people are already using it by
running trunk.  It will be in Asterisk 1.6.

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Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.