On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Abid Saleem <abid_freeswitch@live.com> wrote:

· Since it is a softswitch also, does it support SS7, MGCP and Megaco protocols to control media gateways?

I remember back in the day when FS was a glimmer in tony's eye and we had a mostly working (but not stable) MGCP UA mode with it ... but then I don't think any more work was done it. My requirement for it has phased away also, although if anyone is really interested I'm sure we could come up with a bounty for this, as MGCP is fairly basic.

The only option you have for SS7 is a commercial implementation from Sangoma. No open source implementation for SS7 or SIGTRAN exist as of now, although there are a couple of rumors in the air about diverse efforts.

· Does it support call shops business model?

Technically yes, but the logic and billing etc is all up to you, so out of the box, is it a preconfigured call shop system, no. Can it be used for one, certainly. Will you have to work a bit for it, most cetainly, yes.

· How to add new SIP user accounts into it that can be used to register to it. I know one way is to copy and paste 1000.xml file and edit it in the conf/directory folder. What is the optimal way to do this task?

You can use a DB for this as well and have the XML generated or used inline. http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_xml_curl

o Is there any GUI available. If yes how can I make it work and private label it.?

There are a couple of efforts. Read the wiki. You could use ASTPP with reseller option to white label it.