[asterisk-users] what is softswitch

[Alex Balashov]

Perhaps I'll be a little more amicable when someone finds a way to bring 
at least five or six DS3s into Asterisk.

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Alex Balashov wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Anthony Francis wrote:
>
>> IMHO asterisk is a softswitch, it may not be a very high capacity one 
>> (right now) but it can be and if you don't mind splitting your physical 
>> trunk calls over multiple machines it works very well as a call routing 
>> engine, you just need to have carefully designed plans. It is far to easy 
>> to create call routing loops, but if you don't know what you are doing with 
>> a real telephony switch you can do the same.
>
>  No SS7/ISUP support (and no TCAP, which is required for LNP and LIDB and 
> traditional CNAM), poor/incomplete IMT support, can't take more than a few 
> T1s per host - if that. No GR.303 support.
>
>  To me that makes it essentially impotent for 99% of the purposes for which 
> one would want a Real Softswitch(TM).
>
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> Alex Balashov
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