[Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator

Michael B. Murdock
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:27:57 -0000

We are looking to solve the same problem for different reasons.. I am
currently looking into the Lucent (Ascend) MAX TNT to terminate the PRI's
and then use VoIP/SIP to connect to the Asterisk platform.

BTW: Who makes your class-3 switch you are having so much trouble with?

-- Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Boehm" <mboehm@cytelcom.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:24 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator


> Hey gang,
>  We currently have a class 3 switch (CSX) that..well..it sucks. It does
> terrible CDR writes, doesn't support LCR, the list goes on and on. We
want
> to replace this with several asterisk boxes each running one or two 4 port
> PRI cards.
>  The problem is: I can plug in 20 PRI lines into the CSX (from PSTN) and
> have 1 come from CSX into asterisk. If 1 call comes in on each of the 20
> pris, the CSX concentrates them into 1 pri into asterisk. Thus I only need
a
> single PRI card for asterisk box.
>
>  If I want to completly replace the CSX, I would need several boxes with 1
> or 2 4 port cards. But that is a big waste of money when I can concentrate
> into less cables.
>
>  Does anyone know of some piece of hardware (other than a carrier switch)
> that will do the same thing? Keeping our current switch doesn't cost
> anything except in terms of power consumption and physical space (its like
> 5U or 8U).