SS7 User's Guide

UNDER CONSTRUCTION as of August 31st, 2009.

General description goes here.

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; clean up language)
    • 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
  • Linkset States
  • Route States
• MTP3 Statistics
  • Link Statistics
  • Route Linkset Statistics
  • Route Statistics

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
    • Userpart
    • Interface
    • Circuits (need to clean up; also, what is the equivalent section in the Web portal tutorial guide?)
• 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

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
  • General Configuration
  • Network Configuration
  • LSAP Configuration
  • Route Configuration
  • Userpart Configuration
  • GTT Association Configuration
  • GTT Address Map Configuration
• SCCP Alarms
  • Error Performance Report
• SCCP States
  • General States
  • Route States
• SCCP Statistics
  • Userpart Statistics
  • LSAP Statistics
  • Route Statistics

TCAP

• Overview
  • Architecture
    • Message
      • Transaction portion
      • Dialogue portion
      • Component portion
  • Specification
• TCAP Configuration
  • General configuration
  • Userpart configuration
• 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
• TCAP Alarms (INCOMPLETE FORMATTING)
  • Userpart alarm
• TCAP States
• TCAP Statistics
  • Userpart statistics