Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Kinch
After a little delay of a few months, I'm moving forward slowly but surely with this. We now have our own internal setup to query an MSISDN for MCC/MNC, it's just a case of interfacing it to the outside world. As such a query is a two stage process, I would imagine it would go something like

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Ben Suffolk
As such a query is a two stage process, I would imagine it would go something like this: 1. Client makes request with MSISDN and return URL 2. Server posts result (as HTTP GET or POST) back to client as soon as the necessary information is received back from the remote operator. As this is such

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Ben, I think the protocol you use will be dependent somewhat on the average length of time for the lookup. There is more overhead in having to have 2 connection setups (1 outbound and 1 inbound) than in just the one. But it probably comes down to volumes as well, and if the calling

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Ben Suffolk
Blocking is an idea, but as you're basically doing a an SS7 query to the remote operators HLR it's possible the HLR may not respond or take a little while to respond. That's where caching comes into play. Indeed. I think if you are planning on caching at your end, then you need to provide

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Kinch
On 11/9/06, Ben Suffolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blocking is an idea, but as you're basically doing a an SS7 query to the remote operators HLR it's possible the HLR may not respond or take a little while to respond. That's where caching comes into play. Indeed. I think if you are planning

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Brenda Wallace
we built something fairly similar for a MNP solution. wecached the result in memcached for 24 hours. works a treat. however, the overheard of all those http requests was too much for some applications, so we also made a LDAP interface. On Friday 10 November 2006 07:37, Alex Kinch wrote: On

HLR lookup for number portability

2006-08-23 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello, Just putting together a proposal for a new service, would there be any interest from people here for a service that will do an HLR lookup against an MSISDN and return a MCC/MNC? I know there was talk about an HLR box or plugin for Kannel, but not sure it ever went much further forward