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

[Anton]

Hey Matthew, good to hear that!
If you are willing to write the driver compatible for HUAWEI 
MGCP/MEGACO (telco grade) gateways, I have 1 port gateway 
here, and can donate it for this task.

On Thursday 14 August 2008 20:25, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> 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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