[Freeswitch-users] FS and TDM

[Anthony Knight]

Anton,

what do you mean by 20 ports?  (20 B channels, 20 pri spans? 20 cards)?

And why is 20 a limiting factor?

Just curious (as it wasn't clear to me).

Thanks

Tony Knight


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Anton <anton.vazir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael,
> Thanks for reply.
>
> Yes, I do use SANGOMA TDM cards in my systems - have several
> types of their TDM and analogue hardware (A200,
> A102,A104,A108,108D)
>
> Right now my most capable system runs latest asterisk with
> 20 ports TDM, SS7 and PRI (chan_ss7), though call volume is
> not too big, and it's almost obvious that asterisk won't be
> able to carry the full capacity of 20 ports in the single
> system. Possibly having fresswitch outperforming
> asterisk "by factor of 10" - is the solution which would be
> able to carry the necessary capacity. Unfortunatelly with
> no ss7 support I can't really use freeswitch - but maybe
> PRI will work. Just some doubts that someone in the
> mail-list noted that PRI support is also not so good yet
> too and might not be ready for production.
>
> Any thoughts of asking makers ("dicea" currently and
> possible "sifira" too) of chan_ss7 to release their channel
> under compatible license too? SS7 becoming the preferable
> protocol for telco connectivity more and more and in my
> country I even can connect to a telco only via SS7.
>
> Sincerely,
> Anton.
>
> On Monday 23 June 2008 21:55, Michael Collins wrote:
>> Anton,
>>
>> My apologies for not responding to your first email.  As
>> Brian said, the OpenZAP project is the piece that lets FS
>> do TDM.  In addition to the OpenZAP section of the wiki
>> (http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/OpenZAP) here's some
>> quick info:
>> TDM cards from Digium, PIKA, and Sangoma have all been
>> tested with FS, both analog and digital.  Pretty much any
>> zaptel-compatible card will work.  I personally have been
>> using a tor2 clone.  My sample configs are on the wiki,
>> as are some others.
>>
>> What environment are you in and do you already have any
>> TDM hardware?
>>
>> -MC
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
>>
>> [mailto:freeswitch-
>>
>> > users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian
>> > West Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 5:40 AM
>> > To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> > Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FS and TDM
>> >
>> > wiki.freeswitch.org
>> >
>> > Search for OpenZAP, Its a very extensive topic that has
>> > been talked about and already works.
>> >
>> > /b
>> >
>> > On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Anton wrote:
>> > > So, looks TDM is not interesting topic...
>> > >
>> > > On Saturday 21 June 2008 14:08, Anton wrote:
>> > >> Hello!
>> > >>
>> > >> It's interesting to have any info on how good would
>> > >> be FS in the TDM switching, including the proper
>> > >> timing and timing propagation among systems? Also
>> > >> many TDM hardware cards allows in-card frame
>> > >> bridging (so no load on CPU than on the switch) -
>> > >> what with support of this? Or FreeSwitch not so
>> > >> supposed yet to be a core of a TDM switch?
>> > >>
>> > >> Regard,
>> > >> Anton.
>> > >>
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