Product Brief

Protocol Software

Dialogic SS7 and SIGTRAN Protocol APIs

Dialogic SS7 and SIGTRAN protocol APIs support a comprehensive range of Signaling System 7 (SS7) and IETF SIGTRAN capabilities to manage the signaling traffic between an application and the SS7 network over TDM or IP. These SS7 components offer a rich set of capabilities to support high availability, scalability, and carrier-grade performance. Together, Dialogic SS7 boards, APIs, and signaling servers enable equipment manufacturers and developers to create cost-effective solutions for todays modular networks. Beyond the basic need to exchange signaling data with the carrier networks, the APIs provide the developer with a runtime environment that coordinates the execution of signaling operations among separate processors in the configuration: the application host computer, the SS7 interface board with protocol acceleration capabilities, and remote signaling servers where messages can be processed without use of host computer cycles. The message handling software transports signaling information between protocol layers or between a protocol layer and an application layer transparently, regardless of the physical source and destination of the messages. APIs are available for the traditional call control ISDN User Part (ISUP) as well as advanced Transaction Capabilities Application Parts such as CAMEL and GSM-MAP, and from the traditional MTP TDM-based transport technology to the latest IP-based SIGTRAN protocols. These protocol layer APIs are available as standalone software binaries for leading telco-grade operating systems including: Solaris Solaris 9, Solaris 10 (64 and 32 bit) Linux Red Hat 9, RH enterprise server, MontaVista, SUSE, and others Windows Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Dialogic SS7 and SIGTRAN protocol APIs are represented as a layered model (see Figure 1). The APIs run either on the Dialogic SS7 interface boards or on the application or signaling server host computer; Dialogic SIGTRAN protocols run exclusively on the host.

OSI Model
7 - Application 6 - Presentation 5 - Session 4 - Transport MAP

SS7 Protocol Stack

INAP / IS-41 / WIN CAP TCAP SCCP ISUP / BICC / TUP

SIGTRAN Circuit Stack

SIGTRAN Transaction Stack

MAP INAP / IS-41 / WIN CAP TCAP SCCP

ISUP / BICC / TUP

3 - Network

MTP Layer 3

MTP3 M3UA

MTP3 M3UA M2PA

SIGTRAN

SUA

SIGTRAN

2 - Data Link

MTP Layer 2

M2PA

1 - Physical

MTP Layer 1

SCTP

SCTP

Physical

Physical

Physical

Physical

Figure 1. SS7 and SIGTRAN Protocol Layers

Note that MTP1 and MTP2 always run on the Dialogic SS7 boards, whereas higher layers of the SS7 protocol stack may run either on the board or the host.

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Dialogic SS7 and SIGTRAN Protocol APIs

Additional Information
For additional information about supported operating system distributions, see the Guide to Dialogic System Software, Operating Systems, and Dialogic Products at http://www.dialogic.com/products/docs/appnotes/9861_SW_OS_Prod_ Guide_an.pdf. For more details about support for the operating systems listed above and operating systems not listed, contact Dialogic. Dialogic continually evaluates expansion of its coverage of SS7 and SIGTRAN protocol standards and country-specific variants. In addition to general market requirements, a feature request system is used to define customer priorities for additions and changes to products. Contact a Dialogic sales representative about protocol development plans or individual feature requests. Worldwide contact information is available on the Dialogic website at http://www.dialogic.com/contact.

Technical Specications
Country-Specic Variants Bellcore, Telcordia Belgium, France, Italy China, Hong Kong Sweden, Finland

ETSI

IETF

Australia

Germany

and Card Acceleration

SS7 MTP SCCP ISUP BICC TUP TCAP MAP INAP/AIN CAP/CAMEL IS-41/WIN SIGTRAN SCTP M2PA M3UA SUA

Note that BICC is contained within the code and documentation files for ISUP, but is licensed separately. CAP/CAMEL and AIN are contained within the code and documentation files for INAP and are all enabled with an INAP license.

Mexico

Japan

Protocols for Linux, Solaris, Windows,

ITU-T

3GPP

ANSI

UK

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