Asterisk supports SS7 ISUP, which is what is used between switches to
exchange calls. What the phone uses to speak to the BTS (and then on
to the MSC) is an entirely different protocol (similar to ISUP
though). Ditto for SMS, USSD. Then there's the whole "mobility
management" (MAP, BSSMAP and so forth), which Asterisk doesn't do.
Openss7: Over-engineered piece of ... Time for me to start chanting
calming words! Tried it. Doesn't live up to the promise. Not by a
long shot. The author got it into his head to implement a STREAMS-
based stack. Which would have been good if it a) worked and b) was not
over-engineered as to require far too much exertion on the part of its
user. And for the important GSM stuff there is simply too much
missing for it to have any value.
As an aside, Asterisk is generally considered a hack. It is not very
well engineered from a software point of view. But it works. And works
simply. And is easy to extend. Which is very very important.
P.
On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:05, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
Paul Bagyenda wrote thus on 8/25/09 2:45 PM:
...
A nice thing about this is that the protocols (hence software) on
the IP side
are much much simpler than in the SS7 world, because of the
Internet culture
of keeping stuff simple.
btw,
asterisk supports SS7, and there's already an open source SS7
implementation.
(http://www.openss7.org/)
eb
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