Re: [RFC] Number portability hooks
Andreas Fink <[email protected]>
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On Montag, August 11, 2003, at 05:15 Uhr, Steve Kennedy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:01:50PM +0200, Nisan Bloch wrote: > >> I would prefer to see some sort of lookup interface.. Something like a >> "HLR" box. >> Of more importance is how to implement the lookup and when (as this >> will >> incur a msg cost)? Use some third party? Do some SS7 integration? >> Booktrout >> have some nice APIs with their SS7 cards. >> Also of course if we keep the numbers in a hash table, when does one >> refresh? > > Od course this begs the question, how does one query an HLR using SS7, This is pretty simple. you ask the HLR about the location of a user to deliver SMS and you will get back its IMSI number which starts with the mobile network country code and then the mobile network code. We're doing it on our SS7 system but so far no one has shown interest to use it so we didnt develop this functionality further. Andreas Fink Global Networks Switzerland AG ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tel: +41-61-6666333 Fax: +41-61-6666334 Mobile: +41-79-2457333 Global Networks, Inc. Clarastrasse 3, 4058 Basel, Switzerland Web: http://www.global-networks.ch/ [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------