telecomtom at vedatel.com wrote: > 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? I would presume that his configuration corresponds somewhat to your calculation, but I am not quite sure what you are trying to ask here in doing this. -- Matthew Fredrickson Software/Firmware Engineer Digium, Inc.