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| | Engineer Live - Embedding Signalling System #7 into the next generation of systems |
 | | In the buzzword-driven world of telecommunications, Signalling System #7 (SS7) is being drowned out by the market-hyped promises of next generation networks like IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and 4th Generation (4G) Wireless (3G Long-Term Evolution, Mobile WiMAX, Ultra Mobile Broadband, etc). |
 | | In contrast, SIP signalling has extended beyond a call model to support all kinds of communications activities, namely voice, video, conferencing, etc., and follows a peer-to-peer approach with the intelligence moved from the core to the edge of the network. |
 | | SS7 interworking solutions that solve the challenges of non-standard protocol conversion and performance scalability, and are based on open standards components, offer an optimised path to embed multi-protocol signalling gateway functionality into Next Generation Network (NGN) platforms. |
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