Hi!
documentation, osmoMSC interconnects with it's HLR and with the sip connector over it's own internal GSUP and MNCC protocols, as opposed to sigtran or diameter, which are what I believe I would need to use for interconnection. I could be wrong about this however. The suggestion to
You are correct about DIAMETER concerning the HLR: for HLR subscriber management, we use the custom GSUP, and do not support DIAMETER.
For media, you do not need / should not support the custom MNCC format, but osmo-sip-connector translates that to plain SIP for you. Using osmo-msc and osmo-sip-connector, you can trivially interop with stock SIP agents, as long as the codecs match the SIP peer's capabilities. (I recently explained how/why we are still not as good as we should be with codec negotiation.)
Just to make it clear, DIAMETER / HLR is not related to media or SIP interop in any way.
to carrier sms providers. From my reading, the major companies that provide this service are Orange, Syniverse, Arelion, Comphone, and UniFi communications (this one http://unificom.com/ss7.html, not the access point company). Have you reached out to any of them? Do you have any
Is this specific to your country? Please bear in mind that we are an international community =)
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