[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as Softswitch

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 10:09 +0100, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> Somesh S Shanbhag wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I had doubt like can asterisk talk ISUP over SS7 which
> > the normal PSTN
> > softswitches talk with other switches?
> > 
> > It becomes *necessary* that asterisk *should* talk
> > with other softswitches
> > in PSTN using ISUP/SS7 ??
> > 
> At this point, the standard version of Asterisk can't talk SS7.
> There are a number of commercial and open source additions available
> that adds SS7 to Asterisk, I am not aware whether they support ISUP yet,
> but I would guess so.

one would hope that libisup does.  Its commercial but its also been
through testing and acceptance in europe and asia.  Something you are
not likely to get with free software due to the fact that many people
are less willing to let open source software connect to such networks
for fear that someone will tweak something and hose the network.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+ss7+LIBISUP

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