[asterisk-users] Asterisk connected to the PSTN vs. a commercial solution

[JD]

Asterisks greatest strength is that it's a highly flexible platform that 
let's you pretty much do anything.

It's downside, is that it's a highly flexible platform that let's you 
pretty much do anything.

In other words, the quality of what you are trying to do depends on the 
quality and volume of the development and testing.

If you want something that just works and if you want somebody to be 
willing to answer the phone and fix the problems that _will_ happen, 
then I recommend looking at the commercial products. Ironically, many of 
those commercial products use Asterisk. That's okay. The key is that 
they have vetted and developed it for you.

The reason I bring this up, is that asking if Asterisk "supports T1/E1 
interfaces to do PSTN" implies that you might not have done a lot of 
research. You have a lot left to go if you want to roll-your-own 
solution. Please forgive me if my impression is wrong about this.

John


Alejandro Cabrera Obed wrote:
> Dear all, now I'm using an Asterisk 1.4.13 SIP server with 50 SIP users
> and it works very well only in an intranet environment (no connections
> to the PSTN world).
>
> But in the near future, we have to plan a telephone system that works in
> the intranet (voip) and also it must be connected to the PSTN public
> network with a T1/E1 trunk, with 200 SIP users aproximately. So at first
> I have to ways to do that:
>
>
> 1- Continue using Asterisk and adding a T1/E1 interface in order to
> connect to the PSTN
>
> 2- Discard Asterisk and buy a commercial solution, because we have the
> money
>
>
> My questions are: does Asterisk work in the scenario I've described ????
> What is the best solution you can recommend to me ???
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alejandro
>
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