[Info-vax] What is the fate of DEC SS7 ?

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Apr 21, 10:05 pm, johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Apr 21, 6:41 pm, IanMiller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 21, 5:30 pm, aaa.... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > Hello all!
>
> > >  What is the fate of DEC SS7 ?
> > >  Is this product is available for Alpha/IA64 on fresh OpenVMS
> > > releases ?
>
> > What is DEC SS7. A mention of SS7 I see in thishttp://h71000.www7.hp.com/solutions/telecom/logicacmg-products.html
> > and I know that company run VMS on Itanium.
>
> Nothing to do with Logica's SMS stuff. At a trivial level, SS7 is the
> control protocol (and associated connectivity) used to interconnect
> telco switches with other telco switches and other important bits of a
> telco network (eg a Home Location Register in a mobile network) and to
> set up and clear down telephone calls. It also does a whole lot more
> but that'll do for now; if you need more there's a Wikipedia article
> (plus see below).
>
> The DEC SS7 product provided a set of high level APIs to this kind of
> thing, and there was also associated rather special comms hardware. At
> various times it was available on VMS, OSF and NT. There wouldn't be
> many DEC SS7 customers but in the past they'd likely be well known
> players in the industry and be likely to have corporate account
> managers in DEC.
>
> I have the vaguest of vague recollections that the product was at one
> time renamed IN7 (for Intelligent Network 7). An IN7 SPD from 2001
> exists athttp://h18006.www1.hp.com/info/SP3419/SP3419PF.PDF
>
> HP had a (competing?) SS7 product, their OpenCall SS7 Platform. The HP
> equivalent of the DTJ has an article on the subject:http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/97aug/aug97a7.pdf
>
> If there's still an HP corporate business unit focusing on the telco
> sector (or if the DEC folks in sunny Sofia Antipolis still exist) they
> should have definitive answers.

Apologies for surplus postings, I thought the first one had been lost
when I hit the wrong keys. Turns out it hadn't been lost. Good job
proper networks don't work this way.