[VoIP] More "Authentic" CNET

[Keelan Lightfoot]

> To tell you the truth, I would love to have something like this set  
> up.
> However, over VoIP, the latency would become an absolute killer,  
> and some
> exchanges could have their connections saturated. Not to mention  
> administering
> a managed routing scheme including alternate routing/homing. Some  
> switches
> are not online 24/7 as far as I've seen.

I think this would add to the liveliness of CNET. This is a network  
of boat anchors -- getting an ATB condition would not mean the end of  
the world. Administration would be difficult, but I think central  
administration wouldn't be necessary; individual collectors could get  
together and sort out who they are going to peer with. This may  
exclude the possibility of a uniform dialing plan, but wouldn't that  
add to the depth of the network?

> Nice idea for sure, but I think it would be better to get some  
> switching
> hardware with E&M lead input/output. (I think it's E&M that's used for
> bidirectional 2-wire trunks... Can anyone confirm?)

E&M would be nice for the switches that supported it, but for many  
switches, E&M trunking equipment is probably very difficult to come  
by. It would make the hardware implementation much simpler, though.