[Asterisk-Users] SS7 for *

[Steve Underwood]

Matthew Crocker wrote:

>> I just avoid people who think it's ok to create proprietary extensions
>> to free software.  People like that should be ashamed of themselves,
>> as it's just an insult to the people who have freely contributed to
>> the project.
>
>
> I fully agree.
>
> How hard would it be to integrate OpenSS7.org with Asterisk and use a 
> Cisco IPT Signalling point to terminate the A-Links?  A lot of the 
> puzzle pieces exist, they just need to be plugged together.

The reason we built a new SS7 stack from scratch was we looked at 
openss7 :-)

I can't imagine anyone successfully integrating openss7 into anything. I 
believe it works OK on its own, and is in use as a gateway. It wasn't 
designed to play nicely with anyone else, though. There have been a 
number of projects trying to use openss7 as a part of something else, 
including multiple efforts to make it work with *. I haven't heard of 
any of any of them succeeding.

We paid the US$1k you need to pay to get access to the openss7 code, and 
it just wasted our time.

Regards,
Steve