[Asterisk-Users] Re: [Asterisk-biz] SS7 and Asterisk solution

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

>> We'd be more than willing to test :) Our PRI provider has been trying 
>> to
>> push us over to SS7 for ages. So we'd be very interested in assisting
>> you.
>
>     Isn't that a step backwards? SS7 is pretty expensive ($2000 a 
> month for
> us) and you get almost the same info off the PRI D-Channel. You should 
> ask
> your carrier if they can to VoIP traffic, then you can dump all your 
> SS7,
> and PRIs and go completly bandwidth. That's what we did anyway...

Some telcos only give you SS7 for large volumes, and IIRC SS7 is 
usually cheaper than PRI