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

[Matthew Fredrickson]

Anton wrote:
> As SS7 MGCP you probably mean MEGACO protocol? 

I'm thinking I'd start with MGCP, since it is a text based protocol instead.

> Unlikely this could be seen in asterisk anytime soon...

That's likely.  It's going to take a while to do this.  I've started 
playing with this, and the first thing I've started doing is writing my 
own MGCP media gateway, so I have something to test against (I don't 
have any MGCP equipment here).  Then I'll start the channel driver.

Matthew Fredrickson

> 
> 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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