creslin order-master wrote: > Mostafa Ibrahim wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Sorry. The previous question was not accurate. >> >> I am using libss7. We have passed the initial tests with the ss7 >> providers successfully with one ss7 link. we are having a much more >> bigger deployment. >> >> If I have ss7 on 30 E1 link distributed on more than one machine and the >> provider is sending the ss7 signaling only one of these E1 links. Can we >> have a solution for such deployment with asterisk and any ss7 >> implementation ? > > Right now, it is not possible. It is something I would like to do, but > at the moment you have to terminate all bearer traffic in the same box > you terminate your signalling link. mostafa & matt: i'd like to make sure i'm following this: you have 30 x E1 lines/links, right? each E1 has 32 x DS0 time slots or channels. each DS0 is 64 kbps. on each E1, one DS0 is used for framing, leaving 30 x DS0 for data/bearer use and 1 x DS0 for signaling. since only one DS0 channel on one E1 is sufficient to handle the SS7 signaling for all the E1 lines, you can actually have 31 x DS0 bearer channels on all but one link/line (provided that the carrier is willing to do that). the total bearer load would then be (29 x 31 x 64kbps) + (1 x 30 x 64kbps), which is 57536 kbps + 1920 kbps = 59456 kpbs. (please correct if i miscalculated.) or you might mean that you have one E1 line/link, in which case you have one time slot for framing, one signaling channel for SS7, and 30 x DS0 bearer channels. or maybe there's some other configuration that you're talking about? -- TT