A series of questions for the uninformed

[David <dpnsw@optushome.com.au>]

I have been looking over the website and listening in on this list for a few 
months but feel I need to ask a few basic questions to help my understanding 
as I am not anywhere near as literate in programming or signalling as 
everyone else on this list.

1)	The latest  strss7-0.7.8.tgz contains drivers for the ACB56 yet the web 
site lists a number of vendors with drivers for (in my case) Linux. After 
reading the Device Drivers info on the web site it seems that not only is a 
Linux driver required for the hardware but also some form of adaptation to 
sit between the SS7 stack and the vendor driver or am I on the wrong track?

2)	OpenSS7 is the protocol stack and then other projects make use of it. The 
web site indicates this but can anyone give me any clues to who and how it is 
being used? 

My main interest is in 2 applications
a)	STP functionality. SS7 to SS7 over IP (something like 
http://www.airslide.com/products.html, a number of other companies offer this 
but they seem to be the only ones where any number of boxes only consume a 
pair of point codes)

b)	Signalling interface unit for SS7 to VoIP gatekeeper. (similar to Dialogic 
SIU131 and SIU231 Signalling Interface Unit at 
http://www.intel.com/network/csp/products/4177web.htm)

3)	Is anyone running OpenSS7 on E1's in either PCI or compactPCI? If so what 
hardware is being used? With the V.35 feed you obviously don't have to worry 
about what to do with and voice information. If you are using TS1 for you 
link then does Open SS7 provide any mechanism to pass voice traffic through 
or is that expected to be done by another application talking to the other 
timeslots in the hardware?


Well that's about as intelligent as I can make my questions sound so 
hopefully they don't come across as too lame.


 
Best Regards,

David Price