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Alexander Chemeris alexander.chemeris at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 20:50:51 UTC 2009


Harald, David,

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 00:42, David Burgess <dburgess at kestrelsp.com> wrote:
> Harald -
>
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Harald Welte wrote:
>
>>
>>> Something I think could be useful, and would allow a lot of
>>> interoperability, would be to have a common HLR/VLR replacement.
>>> The Asterisk SIP registry doesn't meet our long-term requirements
>>> and so we need to develop one anyway.  If we can agree on an
>>> interface and an implementation, we could do something here.
>>
>> I think I would actually want to have a protocol-compatible HLR, i.e.
>> using the
>> standard interfaces that GSM/3GPP use for the HLR - which I doubt is
>> something
>> that you would want to see :)
>
> I'm open minded at this point.  We eventually have to interface to standard
> HLRs anyway and I need some project to force me to learn the MAP stuff.  It
> would also be good if the underlying database can be used to generate
> configurations for FreeSWITCH or Asterisk, but that should not be hard given
> any SQL-based system.

Right. At some point we'll need to create an adapter for normal HLRs anyway,
so the early we start, the further we get. ;)

I wonder - is there already any IETF-based protocol for such kind of
interaction?
Radius?

-- 
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.




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