Specifications

3 SS7HD Board Product Specific Configuration and Operation
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3 SS7HD Board Product Specific Configuration
and Operation
Before attempting software configuration, you should gain an appreciation of the
flexibility of the protocol stack, the run-time options that exist and the mechanisms
that are used to select specific features. These are explained in the Dialogic
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Distributed Signaling Interface Components - Software Environment Programmer’s
Manual which also describes the basic principles of modules and message passing.
This section provides the product specific options which are available.
This section provides information about:
System configuration using SS7HD Board
Board Code File
Monitoring
Using the CT Bus
Received Message Timestamping
Hot Swap Operation
High Speed Link Operation
3.1 System configuration using SS7HD Boards
Some SS7 protocol modules can be run on either the host machine or on DSI SS7HD
boards. The following table shows the possible options for each protocol:
Protocol
Option
MAP, INAP, IS41
Host or board
TCAP
Host or board
ISUP, TUP, SCCP
Host or board
MTP3
Host or board
MTP2
Board only.
Host protocol software is available for Linux, Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and Windows
®
operating systems. For more information or to purchase, contact an authorized
distributor or your account manager.
The Dialogic
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DSI SS7HD Network Interface Board may be configured for most
applications using the s7_mgt utility. The s7_mgt utility is the primary tool for
configuring a DSI software stack. It is a single-shot configuration utility that takes
configuration commands from a text file (config.txt).
Details on how to configure a system using s7_mgt are provided in the Dialogic
®
Distributed Signaling Interface Components - Software Environment Programmer's
Manual.