Hi, it's nice, but if anybody have some experience with these cards please share us! Attila On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:37 +0300, Vlasis Hatzistavrou - asterisk mailing list account wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps it is of interest to the list to know that Aculab now supports a > channel driver for its Prosody line of cards. Prosody cards among > others, support many SS7 variants. > > The channel driver and accompanying software for the cards are given for > free when you buy the card. > > Information can be found here: > > http://www.aculab.com/products/asterisk/index.htm > > I asked at Aculab for pricing and it turns out that for 2 E1s per card > the pricing is a bit better than the currently available driver from > Markku Korpi. For 4 E1s the pricing from Aculab clearly becomes better. > Plus, the Prosody cards come with DSP resources for fax, DTMF detection, > recording, playback etc, in case someone does not want to put the burden > of these tasks on the CPU. > > For 1 E1 only, even when you add the cost of acquiring the Digium card, > the cost of Markku Korpi's driver is lower. > > Of course this information concerns only the list prices, without any > volume discounts, etc, also without taking into account the > maintenance/support fees, etc > > As we know, there are no plans (yet) to provide channel drivers for > other Aculab cards which have only telephony interfaces and no DSP's, > which would lower the buying cost of the cards significantly. > > Best regards, > Vlasis Hatzistavrou. > > Derek Conniffe wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > To me the reason I'd really like SS7 over PRI ISDN is that I would > > really like to get the CPC data on incoming calls which PRI ISDN > > cannot do and thats it in total. Currently the only choice is Markku > > Korpi's commercial SS7 driver. > > > > > >> So my question to the list. > >> If there is such a huge need for this product why has the code not > > > > been developed? > > I think not many people need SS7 - maybe its not big/available in the > > US? Also normal businesses will get by fine with PRI ISDN (they don't > > want/need the CPC switch data). > > > > > >> Is it that the developer realizeed that they can sell it for > > > > lots o money > > Markku Korpi's driver is not cheap for sure > > > > Best of luck! When you are finished I you might want lots of money > > for your non-opensource SS7 software too! :) > > > > Derek > > > > > > > > Michael Blood wrote: > > > >> We are interested in starting an in house development of an SS7 > >> Interface for our asterisk switches. > >> We only really have to setup a few basic messaging sets in order to > >> make Asterisk operate as a SSP (I think). > >> > >> It seems that FootNote SS7 development is stalled (at least I have > >> never seen any code come from Race) also openSS7 doesn't really have > >> anything compatible with asterisk. > >> > >> We plan to start the planning portion in the next few days. We will > >> only support a minimal messaging set that is specific to our needs > >> for SSPs. > >> > >> Is there any technical advice for direction to go or issues to work out? > >> I wanted to mention that we have decided to do this in house because > >> the open source solutions are not there yet and they seem to want to > >> be everything to everyone. We don't need that. The openss7 product > >> seems to address TOO many features. We dont plan to connect to an > >> SCP node, we can survive without LNP and Database Lookups. > >> > >> So my question to the list. > >> If there is such a huge need for this product why has the code > >> not been developed? > >> Is it that the developer realizeed that they can sell it for > >> lots o money > >> Is it that the message sets are two big and complex? Maybe > >> the developer wants to be able to support way more messages than we > >> need. > >> I have not yet decided what we will be doing with the > >> once we have completed things but if we should decided to open source > >> it we will want to make sure that the code is written the best way > >> possible for asterisk. > >> > >> Would Asterisk-Dev be an appropriate place to post questions about > >> the best practice ways to develop the application. > >> Are there any caveats or gotchas that you may have experienced or > >> heard of to the development of this subset of SS7 functionality? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Michael Blood > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Asterisk-SS7 mailing list > >> Asterisk-SS7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-ss7 > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Asterisk-SS7 mailing list > >Asterisk-SS7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-ss7 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-SS7 mailing list > Asterisk-SS7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-ss7 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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