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<P align=center><FONT size=4></FONT> </P></DIV><BR>so can u help how to send USSD Messages using SS7???<BR><BR><BR>
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From: ab@dicea.dk<BR>To: asterisk-ss7@lists.digium.com<BR>Subject: Re: [asterisk-ss7] SMS,MMS, SS7 and wrong approach to<BR>Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:01:53 +0100<BR>CC: suhib88@hotmail.com<BR><BR>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">The current version does not yet support USSD, this will in the future version. Our MAP stack implementation does not yet have USSD PDUs.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Best regards,</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Anders Baekgaard</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">On Sunday 09 November 2008, Suhaib Mehyar wrote:</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> hi all,</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> can we differ between normal SMS and USSD SMS, does MAP protocol sends USSD</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> message or such a normal message???</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> thanks in advance.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> From: ab@dicea.dkTo: anton.vazir@gmail.comDate: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:53</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> +0100CC: asterisk-ss7@lists.digium.comSubject: Re: [asterisk-ss7] SMS,MMS,</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> SS7 and wrong approach to</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> Hello Anton,</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> 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:</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> > I have to note that a while ago one edge of the problem was</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> > in IAX connections between systems - so IAX was giving</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> > oneway for a certin amount of calls - and switching to SIP</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> > resoved it - but now it might be just chan_ss7 related.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> If both IAX and chan_ss7 gives one way audio, the problem could be</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> somewhere else. I do not understand why you think this is a bug</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> _intentionally_ left in chan_ss7.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> You write that we have not included the patch published on this list for</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> support of zaptel new style addressing. But there has been support for this</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> since version 1.0.0, released november 2007. I am not aware of any problem</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> with this, and I am not aware of any patches that solve bugs that are not</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> already fixed in the released versions of chan_ss7. I do not understand why</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> you think that the patch is _intentionally_ left out.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> Your accusation that we intentionally leave bugs and charge people</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> excessive amount of money to fix them, is simply not true. I receive very</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> few real bug reports, and I do not see many bug reports on this mailing</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> list. chan_ss7 is stable and used in production by really many users around</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> the world.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> In december 2007 I had email correspondance with you where you asks for</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> help to setup an 8 E1 server. I send you an offer with my best estimates at</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> that time (2-4 hours for code changes, optionally 5-8 hours if you wants us</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> to log in to your system and install/configure/test the solution, 170</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> Euro/hour). This is considerably more work than changing two lines of code.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> I do not understand why you write that we charge you 2000 Euro for two</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> lines of code.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> You write that Dicea is breaking existing licenses. We obviously will not</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> do anything not legal, or not comply with existing licenses. chan_ss7 comes</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> with GPL license, and the supported version comes with the same license.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> The purpose of offering a supported version is to provide professional</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> support for the users that want it, and to finance Diceas continued</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> development of chan_ss7. The work we do on chan_ss7 is mainly due to</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> personal interest, but we want to have the work partly financed.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> The mail you sent to this mailing list is your response to somebody</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> noting that Dicea has an SMS solution. We sell support and SS7 related</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> software products, this also helps finance the effort put into</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> chan_ss7. As a user, you are also benefitting from this business model.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> I have maintained chan_ss7 for several years, and I have got a lot of</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> positive feed back from users. There are a few exceptions like you.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> I hope this mail clears the issues raised.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">> Best regards,</P>
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