[asterisk-ss7] TCAP over VPN?

[Bryan Scott]

Wow, TCAP over SIP over IPSEC.  Cool.


On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Joe Freeman wrote:

I specifically asked the question about sigtran, but very large company 
said they use SIP packets to do it. I'm trying to get them to get me on 
a call with their developers because their sales engineers couldn't 
explain the details to me.

Joe



On 7/13/2010 3:14 PM, Bryan Scott wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I don't think libss7 handles TCAP queries (currently).
> 
> I'd be inclined to ask very big company how they put the TCAP over VPN (is it over SIGTRAN over an IPSEC tunnel?).
> 
> (If libss7 does support TCAP queries, I too am interested...)
> 
> -- Bryan
> 
> 
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Joe Freeman wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings-
>> 
>> I've recently been looking at TCAP services from both my A-link provider
>> and another, very large, company. The proposal from the very large
>> company came back with relatively good rates as compared with the
>> incumbent A-link provider. However (there's always one), their proposal
>> is predicated on my using TCAP over VPN.
>> 
>> I've never heard of TCAP over VPN, and my signaling gateway/controller
>> vendor says they haven't either. So I'm looking for whatever information
>> I can find.
>> 
>> My purpose for asking here is that I'm wondering if this is possible
>> with Asterisk, and if I can use Asterisk with lib-ss7 or similar to
>> create a translation device from which I could translate TCAP over VPN
>> to legacy TCAP on A-links for connection to my switch.
>> 
>> Thanks-
>> Joe
> 


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