Pete Mueller <p...@privateconnect.com> wrote: > There is a need for ensuring that calls do not drop, but we must balance > that with the cost of making the system redundant. We took some small, > inexpensive measures, to improve our odds, but we could spend a lot more, > for basically nothing more than giving some client a warm fuzzy.
I think this is one area where, as indicated earlier in the thread, a lot of development effort would be needed to obtain that extra degree of reliability. >From a broader perspective, the question is whether, over the next decade or two, VoIP can compete with the PSTN in reliability. My (limited) understanding is that PSTN equipment typically achieves 99.99999% uptime, and if VoIP systems are going to play in that arena, it would be desirable for free/open-source software to do so. If FreeSWITCH itself is working correctly, all you need is a hardware failure or a kernel panic or a network outage to drop that up-time substantially, not to mention dropping the calls as well, which I've never experienced as a user of the PSTN due to equipment at the telephone exchange. I have, however, experienced some rather low-quality PSTN calls over international lines, which have the added disadvantage of being expensive to use. _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
