[VoiceOps] Open source roaming server -stp gateway

[Abdul Hakeem]

Hello,
Does anyone have a link for an open source roaming server ?.
Cheers,
AH
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Re: [VoiceOps] SS7

[Jay Patel]

This is not 100% accurate, there are other small STP operators who can
offer you cheaper option ( < $500/month price point) for Sigtran
connectivity. Feel free to contact me off list.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Mary Lou Carey 
wrote:

> There are really only two large companies that will do SS7 via SigTran and
> they are Syniverse and Neustar (formerly TNSi / Verisign / Illuminet), They
> don't really like to give out their pricing publicly so you have to sign an
> NDA to get it, but I would budget about $1,000 per month to be safe. You
> pay for each ISUP route as well so that price depends on how many routes
> you have.
>
> Are you asking which carriers provide SS7 links or which ones will do the
> host switch product?
>
> Mary Lou Carey
> BackUP Telecom Consulting
> mary...@backuptelecom.com
> Office: 615-791-9969
> Cell: 615-796-
>
>
> On April 23, 2016 at 1:21 PM Erik Flournoy  wrote:
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> Hey since we're on this topic what's the average cost for SigTran and who
> would you guys recommend? Who actually has SS7 and would be interested in
> interconnecting.
> On Apr 23, 2016 7:21 AM, "Kidd Filby"  wrote:
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> ABSOLUTELY
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> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Hiers, David  wrote:
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> People tend forget the existence and benefit of physical and
> administrative security controls until they disable them.  Sure, they are
> an expensive speedbump at times, but you can’t hack what you can’t touch.
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> David
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> *From:* VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] *On Behalf Of *Mike
> Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE
> *Sent:* Friday, April 22, 2016 11:28
> *To:* voiceops@voiceops.org
> *Subject:* Re: [VoiceOps] SS7
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> It seems to me that this SS7 vulnerability issue is just the latest result
> of all of the de-regulation that’s been going on for the past… two decades
> or so.  There was a time that you could not buy commercial access to the
> SS7 network; to get that access you had to be a real carrier.  Also, back
> at that time, inter-company SS7 signalling could only occur on established,
> ordered signaling routes where both parties placed an order to open the
> route between them.  Therefore, this would not have been possible back then
> because the carrier would not have ordered a route to the hacker’s point
> code(s) and it therefore would not exist.
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> If I am a US local carrier in 2001, I have no need to order a signaling
> route to a German carrier either so even the hacker having full access to a
> German carrier’s network would not compromise my network. (in response to
> the nation-state issue)  To get a call to Germany, I signal to the access
> tandem or IXC switch I’ve chosen to interconnect with in the US and that
> switch signals upstream, etc.
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> If we were not on this path of de-regulation where whatever makes
> commercial sense for one company can open up the whole SS7 network to
> un-trusted parties, we likely wouldn’t be here.  At some point, a decision
> was made somewhere to allow this loosy-goosy inter-company signaling over
> the SS7 network between two point codes that would not, under the original
> implementation of SS7, be able to talk to each other in the first place.
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> If the drumbeat of “solve everything with IP!” continues, I hope that at
> least it gets solved by establishing something close to what the VPF was
> supposed to be, and not just a general dumping of all voice traffic across
> the internet between carriers.  That certainly wouldn’t bode well for
> reliability or security.
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> Mike
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> Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE
>
> Astro Companies, LLC
>
> 11523 Palm Brush Trail #401
>
> Lakewood Ranch, FL  34202
>
> DIRECT: call or text 941 600-0207
>
> http://www.astrocompanies.com
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> *From:* VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org
> ] *On Behalf Of *Dan York
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:45 PM
> *To:* Kidd Filby 
> *Cc:* voiceops@voiceops.org
> *Subject:* Re: [VoiceOps] SS7
>
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> This is generally true if the calls are *unencrypted* on VoIP...
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Kidd Filby  wrote:
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> Also folks, don't forget, the same outcome of recording someone's call is
> MUCH easier to accomplish once it is VoIP.  IMHO, of course.  ;-)
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> ... BUT... what's fascinating is the recent rise in end-to-end (e2e)
> encryption among IP-based communications platforms that include voice.
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> WhatsApp, for instance, just completed the rollout of e2e encryption on
> April 5, and not just for messaging, but also for voice and video calls as
> well as file transfers (
>