SS7 User's Guide

UNDER CONSTRUCTION as of August 7th, 2009.

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Before you begin

The signaling information/code contained in this document/product is based on the best information we have available. Although it has been tested successfully with other piece of signaling equipment, we cannot guarantee that it will conform to the usage of any particular switch in the field.

Key concepts

• OSI model

SS7 User's Guide

MTP2

• Overview
  • Architecture
    • Priorities
    • Flow Control
  • Specification
    • Variants
• MTP2 Configuration (THERE ARE SOME PARAMETERS MISSING)
  • Advanced parameters
• MTP2 States
• Statistics

MTP3

• Overview (NEED TO UDPATE LINKED PAGE WITH CONTENT FROM SS7 USER GUIDE)
  • Architecture (PAGE CONTENT IS INCOMPLETE; NEED TO REVISE GRAPHICS)
    • Addressing
      • Signaling Points
    • Routing
    • Flow Control
    • Multiple OPC Capability
  • Specification
• MTP3 Configuration
  • Configuration of layer (this may not be required; could be API specific)
    • General Configuration
    • Userpart Configuration
    • Linkset Configuration
    • Link Configuration
    • Route Configuration
    • Timers
  • Link Alarms
  • Linkset Alarms
  • Route Alarms
• MTP3 States (SHOULD PROBABLY GET SCREENSHOTS LIKE FOR MTP2)
  • Link States Get
  • Link States Set
  • Route Linkset States Get
  • Route Linkset States Set
  • Route States Get
• MTP3 Statistics
  • Link Statistics
  • Route Linkset Statistics
  • Route Statistics
• MTP3 Standalone mode
  • Send Data
  • Received Data

ISUP

• Overview (NEED TO FIND A HOME FOR ALL OF THE HISTORY AT BEGINNING OF SECTION]]
  • ISUP summary
  • Architecture
  • Configuration sequence
  • Specification
• ISUP Configuration
  • Layout of the ISUP network
  • Configuration of layer
    • General configuration
    • Network (need to add content from SS7 guide for the next three)
    • Userpart
    • Interface
    • Circuits
• ISUP Signaling
  • Host application requirements
    • General guidelines for designing an efficient call control application using ISUP
    • General guidelines for designing highly redundant application (blade failure)
    • General guidelines for designing a high-performance system
    • General guidelines to have highly redundant high-performance system (host failure)
  • Information element usage
    • IE inclusion in different messages (NEED TO ADD TABLES 50 AND 51)
  • ISUP functions and behaviours
    • Blocking and unblocking
    • Circuit group functions
    • Flow control
    • Circuit continuity testing (VALIDATE THE CODING REFERENCES AS WELL AS WORD REFERENCES)
      • Continuity testing within a call
      • Continuity testing outside a call
  • Call flow and scenarios
    • Successful basic call setup (no ACM)
    • Successful basic call setup (with ACM)
    • Successful call setup (with CPG)
    • Successful call setup (overlap)
    • Successful call release
    • Outgoing call refused by incoming side
    • Call collision because racing condition host TB640
    • Call collision between two SS7 nodes
    • Call with successful continuity testing
    • Call with failed continuity testing and successful re-check
    • Call with failed continuity testing and no re-check
    • Call with failed continuity testing and failed re-check
    • Call with failed continuity testing and failed re-check (timeout)
    • Successful continuity testing out-of-call
    • Failed continuity testing out-of-call with successful re-check
    • Failed continuity testing out-of-call with failed re-check
    • Circuit group reset
    • Circuit blocking
    • Circuit group blocking
    • Circuit unblocking
    • Circuit group unblocking

SCCP

• Overview
  • Architecture (NEED TO REVISE GRAPHIC)
    • Connectionless Service
    • Management
    • Addressing
      • Global Title Translation Association
    • Routing
    • Traffic Limitation and Congestion Control
    • Interworking
    • Messages
  • Specification
• SCCP Configuration
  • Configuration of layer
    • General Configuration
    • Network Configuration
    • LSAP Configuration
    • Route Configuration
    • Userpart Configuration
    • GTT Association Configuration
    • GTT Address Map Configuration
  • Compatibility (INCOMPLETE IN ORIGINAL GUIDE)
    • Variants (INCOMPLETE IN ORIGINAL GUIDE)
• SCCP Alarms
  • Alarm
  • LSAP Alarm
  • Userpart Alarm
  • Error Performance Report
• SCCP States
  • General States Get
  • General States Set
  • Route States Get
• SCCP Statistics
  • General Statistics (CLEAN UP FORMATTING)
  • Userpart Statistics
  • LSAP Statistics
  • Route Statistics
• SCCP Standalone mode
  • Data Request
  • Coordinate Request
  • Coordinate Response
  • Point Code SSN Status Request
  • SSN State Change Request
  • Data Received
  • Data Error Indication
  • Coordinate Indication
  • Coordinate Confirmation
  • Point Code SSN Status Confirmation
  • SSN State Change Indication
  • SSN State Change Confirmation
  • PC State Change Indication

TCAP

• Overview
  • Architecture
    • Message
      • Transaction portion
      • Dialogue portion
      • Component portion
  • Specification
• TCAP Configuration
  • Configuration of layer
    • General configuration
    • Userpart configuration
  • Compatibility
    • Variants
• TCAP Transaction
  • Creating new transaction
  • Adding component portion
  • Sending transaction and dialogue portions
  • Receiving component portion
  • Receiving transaction and dialogue portions
  • Receiving transaction error indication
  • Transaction flow and scenarios
    • Successful unstructured dialogue (UNIDIRECTIONAL)
    • Successful structured dialogue initiation
    • Successful structured dialogue acceptation
    • Successful structured dialogue continuation
    • Successful structured dialogue termination
    • Successful structured dialogue abort
• TCAP Alarms
  • Alarm
  • Userpart alarm
• TCAP States
  • Userpart states get
• TCAP Statistics
  • Userpart statistics