[asterisk-users] GSM and SS7 Questions

[Matthew Fredrickson]

On 11/18/10 7:40 AM, Matt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Matthew Fredrickson<creslin at digium.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/17/10 2:44 PM, Cary Fitch wrote:
>>> In regard to #2, "any" T1 card should work.  But the problem is you need SS7
>>> software and SS7 connectivity in addition to the T1 card.
>>
>> Asterisk (as of version 1.6.0 or greater) has native support for SS7
>> with DAHDI interface cards in chan_dahdi.  I obviously have used it with
>> quite a few Digium cards that have worked well.
>
> Matthew,
> So 1.6.0 or newer, with a Digium card should talk T1/SS7 no problem?
> That's great news!  I have a Nortel DMS100 that we have configured for
> DS1/SS7 and we were trying to figure out how to connect an Asterisk
> PBX to it.
>

That is correct.  Feel free to ask me any questions if you have any 
issues come up along the way.  The sample chan_dahdi.conf has a section 
with an example of an SS7 setup in it, for reference on configuration.

Matthew Fredrickson
Hardware/Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.