[asterisk-users] what is softswitch

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Now see... the fact that it can't handle 6 DS3s doesn't mean it's not a 
softswitch... just that it's not a carrier-grade softswitch.

N.


Alex Balashov wrote:
> 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).
>>
>> --
>> Alex Balashov
>> Evariste Systems
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>> Direct : +1-678-954-0671
>>
>>     
>
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> Alex Balashov
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