[Asterisk-Users] Who would use Asterisk SS7?

[Michael Bielicki]

We would be a hour 0 user. And probably would also be abel to get some 
partners to test SS7 interconnect with since it would rid us of a hell of 
problems :)


On Thursday 29 May 2003 2:22 pm, Mike M wrote:
> 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 :-).