Switch Nodes

There are 500 Switch Nodes in the Minutes Network. Their role is to route and process live international voice traffic. When a carrier sends a call to the network, a Switch Node is randomly selected in real time to handle the connection, managing it from the point of entry through to termination at the endpoint.

The termination path depends on the recipient. If the recipient is on a Jingle-integrated application, the Switch Node routes the call over the data channel, bypassing the PSTN entirely. If not, the call is terminated through the PSTN via the Mintech Revenue Turbine at the lowest cost in the market.

Collectively, the 500 Switch Nodes provide capacity to terminate up to 72 million minutes of voice traffic per day. This capacity is designed to scale alongside the network's growth as new carriers are interconnected, LDI licenses bring new markets online, and Jingle integrations expand the number of reachable endpoints.

Switch Nodes occupy the most strategically significant position in the infrastructure hierarchy. They sit at the commercial heart of the network, directly handling the traffic that generates the fiat revenue which funds the entire MNTx reward cycle. Without Switch Nodes processing calls, there is no revenue and no rewards.

Switch Node operators receive their share from the 10% node operator allocation, which is undiluted and not subject to the algorithmic burn applied to the staker pool.

Minimum staking threshold: 50,000 MNTx.

Switch Node Requirements

Processor: Multi-core (dedicated)
RAM: 16 GB
Storage: 240 GB SSD
Network: 100 MB NIC
OS Kernel: Modern Linux
Hosting: Dedicated hardware