M3UA

The M3UA (Message Transfer Part 3 User Adaptation Layer) layer can be used like this:

• extend an MTP3 link
• replace the MTP3 and MTP2 layers entirely
• do a signaling gateway (SG) with a shared point code
• do a signaling gateway (SG) to another signaling gateway with a shared point code

Here are some examples:
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TelcoBridges and M3UA

TelcoBridges supports M3UA as part of its support for SIGTRAN.

Sigtran use cases

You can see some use cases for Sigtran here: Sigtran use cases and M3UA Configurations

Configuration

• M3UA configuration v3.0
• M3UA configuration v2.10
• M3UA configuration v2.9
• M3UA configuration v2.8

• M3UA configuration v2.7

References

• Article at Protocols.com
• Wikipedia article
• RFC 4666 Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)