[Asterisk-Users] Who would use Asterisk SS7?

[Mike M]

On Thursday 29 May 2003 05:27, Patrick wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 02:36, asterisk at sasami.anime.net wrote:
> > On 24 May 2003, Thilo Salmon wrote:
> > > The other issue is a legal one. In order to connect to the incumbent
> > > telco your equipment has to be certified. I believe unless quite a few
> > > of us get together, this one might be a real problem.
>
> The SS7 equipment from Lucent, Nortel, Alcatel are likely already
> certified with the carrier you want to link to. 

They are. No worries about certs from those guys.  

> If not, they are happy
> to make that happen for you. Also, in Europe you will not get an SS7
> link to a carrier unless you are a licensed carrier yourself.

True.  But you will only be interested in SS7 if you are interested in being 
a licensed carrier and expanding to handle enough voice channels to make SS7 
more cost effective than RBS.  This point is at the heart of the original 
question.  Putting SS7 on * is worthwhile only if there are going to be 
users.  If SS7 were available today, would existing * users adopt SS7-IMT and 
would it interest non-users to become users?
>
> > Easy solution -- Have * talk to SS7-certified equipment. Cisco comes to
> > mind. They have SS7 gateways that could talk with * as do many others.
> > You can use * to cut out the expensive hardware and only use the bare
> > minimum of the vendor's setup to talk to SS7.
> >
> > -Dan
>
> Whatever * is able to cut out, you still need a serious telco budget to
> actually get the SS7 solution. Given customer requirements, you pass the
> $500,000 mark in the blink of an eye. And that does not include a
> service contract for the kit for as long as it is in service.  

The cost of traditional SS7 equipment is prohibitive for big and small 
business plans.  A low-cost alternative could be a business plan enabler.

> This may
> still make sense to some though. If I were to make such investments I
> would:
> * become a licensed carrier
> * install SS7 interconnection gear with all major carriers in the
> designated area

In North America you can connect to a single SS7 network provider and have 
all the SS7 access you need.  SS7 access is separate from IMT access.   I 
would think that connection to a single carrier in Europe would be sufficient 
to begin with also.

> * negotiate termination service fees as high as possible

With your clients?

> * get tons of traffic to my network by offering ??? to customers

For * I think an attraction is VoIP to PSTN bridging and access to the PSTN 
user base.  This is a technology list so marketing ideas are OT.

> * profit!

The dream of all operators :-).  
-- 
Mike M.