BSC_MGCP

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Nik Pakar nikpakar at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 23:37:21 UTC 2012


Hi Holger, Sorry for repeat replies.

I just came across this smalltalk implementation you have done for some
other elements such as a MSC, HRL, etc., Would that be any use for what im
trying to do here with OpenBSC.

Thanks & Rgds
Nik

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Nik Pakar <nikpakar at 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 at 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. :)
>>
>>
>
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