[asterisk-ss7] SMS,MMS, SS7 and wrong approach to

[Anders Baekgaard]

The current version does not yet support USSD, this will in the future 
version. Our MAP stack implementation does not yet have USSD PDUs.


Best regards,
-- 
Anders Baekgaard
Managing Director, Dicea ApS
Esromgade 15, 1110
DK-2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
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On Sunday 09 November 2008, Suhaib Mehyar wrote:
> hi all,
>
>
> can we differ between normal SMS and USSD SMS, does MAP protocol sends USSD
> message or such a normal message???
>
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> From: ab at dicea.dkTo: anton.vazir at gmail.comDate: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:53
> +0100CC: asterisk-ss7 at lists.digium.comSubject: Re: [asterisk-ss7] SMS,MMS,
> SS7 and wrong approach to
>
>
> Hello Anton,
>
> You write that chan_ss7 is intentionally filled with bugs, and you mention 
one bug, about the one way audio problem, that you have reported to this 
mailling list. In a mail to this list, dated 2008-09-15, you write:
> > I have to note that a while ago one edge of the problem was
> > in IAX connections between systems - so IAX was giving
> > oneway for a certin amount of calls - and switching to SIP
> > resoved it - but now it might be just chan_ss7 related.
>
> If both IAX and chan_ss7 gives one way audio, the problem could be
> somewhere else. I do not understand why you think this is a bug
> _intentionally_ left in chan_ss7.
>
> You write that we have not included the patch published on this list for
> support of zaptel new style addressing. But there has been support for this
> since version 1.0.0, released november 2007. I am not aware of any problem
> with this, and I am not aware of any patches that solve bugs that are not
> already fixed in the released versions of chan_ss7. I do not understand why
> you think that the patch is _intentionally_ left out.
>
> Your accusation that we intentionally leave bugs and charge people
> excessive amount of money to fix them, is simply not true. I receive very
> few real bug reports, and I do not see many bug reports on this mailing
> list. chan_ss7 is stable and used in production by really many users around
> the world.
>
> In december 2007 I had email correspondance with you where you asks for
> help to setup an 8 E1 server. I send you an offer with my best estimates at
> that time (2-4 hours for code changes, optionally 5-8 hours if you wants us
> to log in to your system and install/configure/test the solution, 170
> Euro/hour). This is considerably more work than changing two lines of code.
> I do not understand why you write that we charge you 2000 Euro for two
> lines of code.
>
> You write that Dicea is breaking existing licenses. We obviously will not
> do anything not legal, or not comply with existing licenses. chan_ss7 comes
> with GPL license, and the supported version comes with the same license.
> The purpose of offering a supported version is to provide professional
> support for the users that want it, and to finance Diceas continued
> development of chan_ss7. The work we do on chan_ss7 is mainly due to
> personal interest, but we want to have the work partly financed.
>
> The mail you sent to this mailing list is your response to somebody
> noting that Dicea has an SMS solution. We sell support and SS7 related
> software products, this also helps finance the effort put into
> chan_ss7. As a user, you are also benefitting from this business model.
>
> I have maintained chan_ss7 for several years, and I have got a lot of
> positive feed back from users. There are a few exceptions like you.
>
> I hope this mail clears the issues raised.
>
> Best regards,


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