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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: SpiderWareSS7 and SpiderWareSG
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2006
Signalling and gateway blades switch to
ATCA
The ATCA-based SpiderWareSS7 signalling blade and SpiderWareSG signalling gateway boast twice the signalling density and line utilisation of competing signalling and gateway blades.
Artesyn Communication Products has developed AdvancedTCA (ATCA) implementations of its SpiderWareSS7 signalling blade and SpiderWareSG signalling gateway The new blades, using a common ATCA hardware platform, deliver twice the signalling density and line utilisation of competing signalling and gateway blades
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our SS7 signalling and Sigtran blades provide the highest density and line utilisation of any blade in the business", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Product Management at Artesyn Communication Products.
"Now we are providing them in a convenient ATCA form factor that makes it easier than ever for telecomms equipment OEMs to add high-performance signalling to legacy PSTN and next-generation IP networks without compromising investments in existing SS7 code".
SpiderWareSS7 provides SS7 signalling channels across E1/T1 interfaces, making it easy to add SS7 signalling to ATCA-based network elements such as signalling transfer points (STPs), service control points (SCPs), signalling gateways and basestation controllers (BSCs).
Equipped with up to 32 T1/E1 spans, SpiderWareSS7 provides up to 128 SS7 signalling channels with 100% line utilisation, twice that of competitive solutions.
SpiderWareSS7 provides a complete SS7 stack that includes lower layer protocols such as MTP1 and MTP2, as well as upper layer SS7 protocols such as MTP3, ISUP and SCCP.
The stack complies fully with ANSI, ITU, Telcordia and IETF standards.
SpiderWareSG is a high-density ATCA signalling gateway blade that converts between legacy SS7 and IP-based Sigtran signalling, providing up to 128 SS7/Sigtran signalling channels with 80 to 100% line utilisation (depending on packet size).
SpiderWareSG provides a complete Sigtran signalling gateway on a single ATCA blade, enabling PSTN networks utilising SS7 signalling to connect to IP-enabled STPs, SCPs, BSCs, radio network controllers, home location registers, softswitches and visitor location registers.
SpiderWare uses Sigtran's M2UA, M2PA and M3UA protocol layers to provide a transparent connection between the TDM-based SS7 network and the equivalent Sigtran layer on the IP side of the network.
SpiderWareSG can also act as a gateway between M2UA and M3UA to bridge disparate legacy network topologies.
SpiderWareSG is compatible with existing SS7 applications and requires no change to the SS7 network topology or reconfiguration of SS7 network elements.
SpiderWareSG provides up to 32 E1/T1 spans for communications with the SS7 the network, and multiple Gigabit Ethernet links (available via switch fabric or front panel) for communications with the IP network.
SpiderWareSG provides a complete streams-based implementation for SS7's lower-level MTP1 and MTP2 protocol layers, and Sigtran's SCTP and M2UA layers.
Upper layer protocols such as MTP3, M2PA, M3UA, ISUP and SCCP are also available.
The stack complies fully with ANSI, ITU, Telcordia and IETF standards, and is interoperable at each layer with all industry standard implementations.
The SpiderWare ATCA hardware platform features a 1GHz MPC7448 processor running Wind River's PNE LE Carrier Grade Linux.
Equipped with 512Mbyte of DDR SDRAM memory and 64Mbyte of Flash memory, the MPC7448 processor performs protocol processing and hosts customer applications.
The blade's T1/E1 interface, which provides 8, 16, or 32 T1/E1 spans, uses a PowerQUICC II processor to perform data protocol processing.
SpiderWare's high-speed PICMG 3.1-compliant ATCA fabric interface features high-speed control and data plane connections.
The control plane, using two Gigabit Ethernet channels, connects directly to the ATCA base fabric.
The data plane, managed by a 24-port Ethernet switch, uses eight Gigabit Ethernet ports to connect to the ATCA high speed fabric.
SpiderWare also features a redundant PICMG 3.0 Intelligent Platform Management Interface, which makes it easy for shelf management controllers to monitor, control and exchange management with SpiderWare blades.
SpiderWareSS7 and SpiderWareSG comply with all major safety, EMC and environmental standards, including IEC60950/EN60950, UL60950, CSA C22.2, Global IEC - CB Scheme Report IEC 60950), NEBS Telecordia GR-63, and GR1089 Level 3, FCC Part 15 (USA and Canada) and ETSI EN300386-V1.3.1.
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