Re: [openss7] Offer of Hardware and other

["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>]

John,

Thank you for you generous offer of support.  We missed you on our
vendor scan.  Do you provide open drivers for your cards?  Are there
several links that your could provide for our "Vendor Links" page?

It looks like some of your products are based on MicroLegend stuff
(which I believe is proprietary).  Actually, I was acquainted with
Reg Cable two lives ago...

If you are interested in some Vovida integration, you might be
interested in contacting Greg directly: you can get him at

    mailto:gherlein@herlein.com

Certainly the reliability and hot-swap characteristics of cPCI is
an attractive feature for carrier-class SS7 deployment; however, we
are not quite there yet...  I have been working with ISA and PCI
cards on stock PC hardware.  I was hoping to move to cPCI fairly
soon, but lack cPCI backplane, power-supply and other setup.
Perhaps it would be better to contribute staff to work on your
own equipment and contribute data terminal or full L2 drivers into
the project.

Do you normally partition L3 in your product: the current OpenSS7
design provides a monolithic L3 on the host with the view towards
using SIGTRAN related (or TALI or some derivative) protocols to 
communicate between multiple hosts for redundancy.  We were thinking
of even going so far as a RTLinux/Beowulf architecture in the end.

Are you interested in providing the entire L3 running in the kernel
on the CPC388 in this fashion?

We can discuss this off-line if you'd like, but I would like to
invite your staff to subscribe to our mailing list:

    http://www.openss7.org/webhost.html

Let's talk further!


--Brian


Really open person Julie Grana wrote:            (Sat, 07 Oct 2000 19:33:22)
> 
>    Greg,
>    
>        I came across your name and information via the Linux Telephony
>    web site. My name is John Grana. I am the VP of Software Engineering
>    at Performance Technologies, Inc. ([1]www.pt.com). We design and
>    manufacture a variety of telecom products. See the web page. The
>    reason for my email is to offer some hardware and as much code support
>    as necessary to the OpenSS7 project.
>    
>    
>    
>        The one (or two) products I think would fit well is our latest
>    CompactPCI T1/E1/J1 card. It has a 200 Mhz PowerQUICC II (PowerPC
>    core), 64Mb SDRAM, 16Mb flash, 8 software selectable T1/E1/J1 ports
>    and Ethernet (dual phys, single MAC - this is for fault tolerance).
>    The best part is that we have Linux running right on the card.
>    Presently we are running BlueCats (I believe it is 2.2.12 vintage
>    kernel). This product is called the PT-CPC388. We also have a dual T3
>    card - same processor/memory/Linux support as the CPC388 - it has true
>    dual Ethernet.
>    
>    
>    
>        As you will also see at our web page, we do lots in the SS7 area
>    as signaling gateways. Mostly this is for country variants.
>    
>    
>    
>       So, I would like to offer a few CPC388 cards and anything else you
>    might find interesting. I would also assign and engineer (or 2) to
>    assist in the port. We are (at least I am!) huge proponents of Linux.
>    We are also talking to Vovida to support SIP and RTP on our products.
>    
>    
>    
>    Let me know!
>    
>    
>    
>    Thanks
>    
>    
>    
>    John Grana
>    
>    
>    
>    BTW, [2]jgrana@rochester.rr.com is my home account. Please respond to
>    my work address - [3]jjg@pt.com
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.pt.com/
>    2. mailto:jgrana@rochester.rr.com
>    3. mailto:jjg@pt.com

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