[asterisk-ss7] Asterisk SS7, SG, MG and MGCP

Anton anton.vazir at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 01:19:36 CDT 2008


As SS7 MGCP you probably mean MEGACO protocol? 
Unlikely this could be seen in asterisk anytime soon...

On Thursday 14 August 2008 11:11, voip me wrote:
> Dear Matthew,
>
> What do you think , how could one improve it then, you
> think chan_dahdi should speak MGCP or any request show
> come up to channel then bridged (or in some other way) to
> an MGCP channel (not the current but a changed MGCP
> channel) and the rest.
> I have another question Matthiew, are you familiar with
> MGCP, how could one address a channel on gateway?
>
> Regards.
> --
> MSH
>
> On 13/08/2008, Matthew Fredrickson <creslin at digium.com> 
wrote:
> > voip me wrote:
> > > Dear Folks,
> > >
> > > Sorry for my ambigouse subject. I want to set the
> > > following solution and need your idea's and
> > > experinces. I want to setup an asterisk box with one
> > > E1 link containing 4 or 5 SS7 signalling links and
> > > have two or three asterisk boxes each with 8 E1
> > > (voice only) as media gateway. What is your idea's,
> > > is it possible, it seems MGCP is for this case but aa
> > > more i look in asterisk MGCP channel less I get
> > > what's its usage. Any one could shed some lights on
> > > this topic, im somehow mixed up. How could I control
> > > the media gateway asterisks to tell them which
> > > channel has a call and where it should go?
> >
> > Asterisk's chan_mgcp does not support being a media
> > gateway right now. You can only control media gateways.
> >  Also, Asterisk doesn't currently support signalling
> > reception on anything other than a DS0 directly
> > connected to the machine.
> >
> > You're not going to be able to control media gateways
> > either that are signalled via SS7, since chan_dahdi
> > does not speak MGCP.
> >
> > These are both things that I would like to improve
> > though...
> >
> > Matthew Fredrickson
> > Digium, Inc.
> >
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