[asterisk-ss7] Where's Matt been? Well, here's the explanation

[Klaus Darilion]

Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> 2.) A new channel driver, called chan_ccs, that allows, among other 
> things, you to control MGCP media gateways for bearer trunks, instead of 
> having to locally terminate them on the asterisk box that's controlling 
> the signalling links.  There is also code in the same branch that has 
> chan_ccs that modified chan_mgcp so that Asterisk can act as a media 
> gateway (since I don't have any good real media gateways to test on). 
> This basically means you can have Asterisk TDM channel scalability up to 
> (in the ideal state) the same level as you can do with SIP with no 
> media, per box.
> 
> In essence, this is turning Asterisk into a "true" softswitch, allowing 
> native bridging between media gateways and any other RTP endpoint 
> (including other media gateways).  This also means that you don't have 
> to terminate bearer T1s/E1s on the main signalling box.

Hi Matthew!

This is an interesting new feature. I wonder if following features are 
also supported, or at least planned to be supported? e.g.
  - rtp timeout: if MGW detect rtp timeout, MGWC should send BYE
  - T.38 reINVITE: if MGW detects a fax, MGWC should initiate reINVITE 
to T.38
  ...


regards
Klaus