Most of the actual PSTN networks use to interconect E1/T1, and signalling PRI or SS7.
SS7 is the most popular, but I didn`t see any information to implement this kind of signalling in the asterisk platform.
I appreciate if somebody can give information about this question.
thanks in advance
I do not think any thing has been done on asterisk for SS7 yet.
There are asterisk drivers (I think only two) that work with ss7 and E1/T1, but they are not open source.
Another solution is to use a ss7 protocol translator.
There are also some open projects like this:
openss7.org/asterix.html
Anyway you can find more in google.
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SS7 Protocol is also not very cheap for private use like PRI in the U.S.
All thoi the functionality and features are great for VOIP Networks.