On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Nik Pakar <nikpakar@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Holger,

Many thanks for your reply.

Im trying to implement a scalable nanoGSM platform which i can have 100s of nano.BTSs connecting to multiple OpenBSCs/NITBs. This is where i was trying below two options.

1. To get the calls routed in/out from and to NITB
2. Unbundle HLR DB to a central mysql db so all NITBs can talk to that common HLR and possibly a basic central GMSC (sip/mgcp only) can lookup the HLR and route calls to them accordingly.

But so far i have failed to get this no.1 done using LCR/asterisk option. So pretty much given up with that.

Thats why trying alternatives now.

Coming back to MGCP, is this mainly to be used in BSC only mode where MSC server will have SCCP/A with BSC and use MGCP for media ?

Or can a NITB act as a MGCP GW while NITB does full msc/hlr/vlr functions and use MGCP to send and receive calls to a MGCP_CA ?

Many thanks for all your help. Its a great fantastic job OpenBSC team has done so far.

Rgds
Nik

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger@freyther.de> wrote:

On 03/03/2012 10:17 PM, Nik Pakar wrote:
> Dear all, Is this BSC_MGCP is functioning ?
>
> Is that mean Open_BSC can be act as a MGCP gateway and can control from a
> MGCP_CA ?

Hi,

it is a MGCP Gateway and a CA can allocate endpoints. Currently the BSC and
the MGCP GW share a secret (config setting) of where the BTS is asked to send
RTP packages too.

holger

PS: Maybe you want to re-introduce yourself to this group and share what you
plan to do. :)