I've posted this before but before it was just wishful thinking. But now it has become a real need. Our boss has a 5 year grudge against Lucent. They had a Lucent here that would simply stop processing calls. No alarms. No nothing. I'm sure that in 5 years, new software has been released. I've got another guy running several AS5400HPX's telling me that you can only do about 20T1's in it without maxing out the CPU. I'm looking for real world people to contact me off list who are using either: A: Lucent equipment B: Cisco equipment and are doing the following translation: Incomming DS3 (with SS7) -> SIP (G729) -> Asterisk I need to put together a proposal for a solution for the above translation for next week. Any and all suggestions/comments/concerns are welcome and greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Matthew