<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<TITLE>Message</TITLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are interested in
starting an in house development of an SS7 Interface for our asterisk
switches.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>We only really have
to setup a few basic messaging sets in order to make Asterisk operate as a SSP
(I think).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>It seems that
FootNote SS7 development is stalled (at least I have never seen any code come
from Race) also openSS7 doesn't really have anything compatible with
asterisk.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>We plan to start the
planning portion in the next few days. We will only support a minimal
messaging set that is specific to our needs for SSPs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there any
technical advice for direction to go or issues to work out?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wanted to mention
that we have decided to do this in house because the open source solutions are
not there yet and they seem to want to be everything to everyone. We don't
need that. The openss7 product seems to address TOO many features.
We dont plan to connect to an SCP node, we can survive without LNP
and Database Lookups.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>So my question to
the list.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>If there is such a huge need for this product why has the code not been
developed?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005>
<FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it that the developer realizeed that they can sell it
for lots o money</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005>
<FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it that the message sets are two big and
complex? Maybe the developer wants to be able to support way
more messages than we need.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005></SPAN><SPAN
class=968162400-26082005> <FONT
face=Arial size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have not yet
decided what we will be doing with the once we have completed things but if we
should decided to </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>open source it we will want to make sure that the code is written the
best way possible for asterisk.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Would Asterisk-Dev
be an appropriate place to post questions about the best practice ways to
develop the application.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are there any
caveats or gotchas that you may have experienced or heard of to the development
of this subset of SS7 functionality?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=968162400-26082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Michael Blood<SPAN class=968162400-26082005>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>