On Thursday 29 May 2003 05:27, Patrick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 02:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-). -- Mike M. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users