similar to: Re: Large installation [was: SS7 signalling/Softswitch]

I'm confused a bit about the following and was hoping to get some answers on this group - What is exactly implied when we say asterisk can connect to a PSTN. Does it mean connecting to the PSTN via PRI/T1/E1? If yes, then I assume asterisk does not need to do any SS7 signaling and all it does (playing the role of a PBX) is to connect to a Class 5 Switch at the CO. Is this a correct statement?

We currently use Asterisk to provide a SIP-to-PSTN service. The actual conversion takes place somewhere in a softswitch owned by our SIP-to-PSTN provider, where we have an SS7 link. We would like to do that conversion ourselves. Is it possible to replace a softswitch with a Cisco AS5xx0 only (ie. AS5300, 5350, 5400), or is a *real* softswitch (ie. Cisco PGW2200) needed? Does anyone have any

Pardon my ignorance, but I was hoping someone could clear up something for me. - For a few POTS lines, digium has a single port card for that, or a T1 card to a channel bank. - For 10 or more lines, digium has a T1 or E1 card for that too based on PRI channels - For 100's to 1000's of lines, I suspect a soft-switch is in order??? A traditional phone company will sell: - POTS lines for

What types of ISDN BRI cards work well in Europe (Guadeloupe, Martinique and France) ? For example: AVM C2 or AVM C4 or eicon Diva server 4 BRI? Any others? Which driver is appropriate? Ray Burkholder ray@oneunified.net http://www.oneunified.net 704 576 5101 -- Scanned for viruses and dangerous content at http://www.oneunified.net and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part

Thanks Brian, and thanks again for the included definitions <grin> - that helped too. Your comments are really helping clear many questions. I suppose our intensions are to become an IXC. So if my local carrier is sporting old technology, they'll provide TDM services. So if I understood you correctly, the "in-band signaling" is typically SS7, and the alternative is typically

We needed the client browser to be open all the time for dynamic data to load without the page refreshing. After looking at all of our options we decided on programming it ourselves using flash rather than java. We have a flash frontend thats tied to our backend mysql DB. We use it for loading web site traffic data, email opens, click-throughs, bouncebacks, stats, etc. It could also be used with

I have a few 7960 Skinny phones. I've edited the skinny.conf file, but I'm a little unsure as to how get the phone to figure out which ip address it should register with when it boots. How do I do that? I already have a tftp server for my SIP based phones. Do I need a tftp server for skinny configs at all? And if so, can it be the same tftp server as the SIP ones use (I'm not sure

I have several Cisco SIP gateways sending calls to Asterisk. Because the gateways don't have user-agents, they don't authenticate with Asterisk. And because they don't authenticate, they use the default context in the sip.conf file. Is there a way to either: A) identify the inbound gateway with a variable, in channel info, or the manager interface? If there was a ${SIPDOMAIN} for

> The documentation mentions that the Digium channels can be split into some > voice channels and the remainder of the channels used for routing IP > traffic. > > Does any one have this in use in conjunction with Asterisk? Does it work > well? Would you recommend it for a production server? > > Obviously, if this works, this makes for a cost effective platform where

If you're using perl on RedHat 9 make sure you put this command somewhere in your boot scheme: export LANG=C or at least execute it before running perl scripts. Redhat has EVERYTHING set to LANG=UTF-8 and it screws up all sorts of perl stuff, and several other pre-written programs in other languages too MATT--- -----Original Message----- From: Ray Burkholder

Hello.. I have a customer who wants to connect 2 PBX's over IP.. The setup should look like this: [PBX] <-- SS7 --> [Asterisk] <-- IAX --> [Asterisk] <-- SS7 --> [PBX] Since there are no SS7 cards , I was thinking at a way of carrying the E1 data as bulk...Can I do that ? How ? Is possible a scenario like this ? I'm thinking of IAX because I don't

Has anyone setup SIP services with ss7 and lis trunks? If so .. what was used hardware and software.. we're trying to do a SIP -> pstn setup and not having much luck as QWEST keeps pushing dates off (aka trying to screw us over) for our pri lines due to the recent court and fcc activity in regards to unbundled switching and I'm looking for solutions/ideas involving SS7..

Hi all I installed DAHDI Version - 2.6.1 DAHDI Tools Version - 2.6.1 libss7-trunk Asterisk 11.0.1 from source on Fedora 12 x86_64. Now i`m unable to load chan_dahdi and libss7: myserver*CLI> module load chan_dahdi.so ?ERROR[10124]: chan_dahdi.c:17842 process_dahdi: Unknown signalling method 'ss7' at line 37. myserver*CLI> module load libss7.so Unable to load module libss7.so

Jeremy, In some posting in the mailing lists, you mentioned that docs for h323 had been submitted but hadn't made it into distribution. Could you post those docs in your download directory? I'm trying to understand the nuances of your driver, gnugk, and extensions. Ray Burkholder ray@oneunified.net http://www.oneunified.net 704 576 5101 -- Scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Ok, I've managed to get inbound and outbound calling to work with chan_h323 and gnugk. A few questions: 1) if I do a reload in *, chan_h323 loses its registration with gnugk, and will no longer pass calls to it. A second reload will crash *. Is this supposed to be? 2) For a configuration in h323.conf like: [office] type=h323 prefix=9 context=outbound I get a message saying:

I'm trying to come up with an elegant solution to handle roaming users in a branch office scenario. I have a number of possible scenarios, none of which seem to completely solve the problem. Perhaps someone with a better feel of the interactions can help me out. Is the 'switch' statement useful in some way? What are the ins and outs of the 'switch' statement? Come to think

Hello everybody, Im new to the list and also new to asterisk, Im wondering if I could set up asterisk as a softswitch, I guess for what I've been reading that It could be possible but almost all the info and documentation Ive found so far is about asterisk as a PBX, etc. Im willing to set a small voip wholesale traffic bussiness and Im not quite sure asterisk is the right chocie for that.

Hi Sangoma a104 card have in product specyfication support for Line protocol SS7 , http://www.sangoma.com/products/p_aft-104-specs.htm [..] Line protocols Frame Relay, X.25, HDLC, PPP, SS7, Transparent bit-stream, BSC. [..] Anyone of you guys use line protocol SS7 for E1/T1 termination in asterisk ? As far I know asterisk don't have support for SS7 signaling, but my telco wants to setup

Hi All; Alot of softswitches or PBX's does not accept to manipulate any SIP call without being registered firstly. So that means, I need asterisk to register firstly then I can route my calls to that SIP trunk. In IAX2, we use the register => , so what shall we do in Asterisk? And how its format will be (if we will use register)? Or what is the solution? Regards Bilal

Hi, I have read about SS7 recently and learnt that it is a signalling protocol used in PSTN for call management, setup, etc. The thing that I don't understand is how SS7 plays a role in VOIP. When I make calls between landline and Asterisk via PSTN, I don't need to do anything with SS7. Is it because the SS7 signalling is already done by Asterisk already? From the prespective of