[asterisk-ss7] why

[Matthew Fredrickson]

Krzysztof Drewicz wrote:
> Oakland, Alan napisał(a):
>> To further clarify, libss7 is developed by Digium, where chan_ss7 is
>> developed by a company called Dicea, more information on chan_ss7 can be
>> found on it's voip-info page
>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+ss7+channels
>>   
> Also:
> 
> chan_ss7 by Dicea has a cluster/failover capability where you have one 
> SPC for you asterisk (one point code in SS7, just like one IP), and if 
> used with 2 hosts, each one having at least one E1 to your SS7 peer , 
> then (if your peer understands changeover and emergency changeover 
> messages it's 99.99%)  one of your asterisk machines could do a reboot, 
> and a second one will go on.


> libss7 has (am i correct) no official support, in other words: you 
> cannot expect Digium Support (even with Asterisk Premium Edition) to 
> solve your problems with libss7, they will help, but the response time 
> etc... for ss7 is not in the contract.

Regarding the current "official" support channel for libss7, this is 
certainly no worse off than the lack of an official support channel for 
chan_ss7.  And with libss7 you get the benefit that the original author 
(myself) is still actively maintaining and supporting it, as well as 
working with many of you in the community with any problems you run into.

There are still some policies and decisions we have to make about how 
we're going to officially support libss7 though.  I believe that when we 
make the official release of Asterisk-1.6.0 (Open source) installation 
support will be something you can call support about (although it'll 
probably end up coming back to me for a while, while the technical 
support staff are learning how to support it).

With regards to BE, I was asked a while ago about including libss7 
support in it.  At the time (this was probably a year or year and half 
ago), I thought it wouldn't be a good idea, due to maturity issues.  Now 
though, I feel that libss7 is to the point where I would feel good about 
putting it in BE since, IMHO, it has been proven as far as stability and 
performance goes.

If there is enough interest in getting support for libss7 (i.e. people 
would be willing to buy copies of it to use with libss7) I can look into 
what it would take to get it in.

--
Matthew Fredrickson
Digium, Inc.