Re: Turning up A-Links

[creslin@xxxxxxxxxx (Matthew Fredrickson)]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Michael Tague wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On this topic of signaling links versus bearer traffic.
>
> Is it possible to just use the Asterisk box to bring in the signaling,
> A-links only, and then via Asterisk MGCP control a media gateway like a
> Cisco 5400?
>
> That is, the SS7 information can be used with MGCP to control bearer 
> traffic
> that is not actually terminating in the Asterisk box?


No, Asterisk MGCP does device control, but cannot be the one controlled 
via mgcp.  There also is not any way to make asterisk control an MGCP 
server using SS7 as the signalling protocol since chan_zap and 
chan_mgcp have no way of mapping the CICs to MGCP bearers.

Matthew Fredrickson