Embedded Computing SpiderWare®SS7 64 SS7 signaling channels on a single blade

• 64 to 128 SS7 channels per blade
• Standardized STREAMSbased API
• 8 or 16 E1/T1 spans per blade
• MTP1 and MTP2 SS7 layers
• Optional MTP3 layer support on host processor board
• Optional SCCP & ISUP on host processor board
• Option for blade based host processor with Linux Support
• STREAMS-based interlayer protocol and application communications
• 10/100 BaseTx Ethernet
• ATCA, cPSB, cPCI or PMC formfactors
• Quality assured by over 35 years of design experience and a TL-9000 and ISO 9001:2000 certified quality management system. (FM 26789)

Emerson's SpiderWare™SS7 provides a high-concentration of signaling channels across E1/T1 interfaces for SS7 applications such as Signaling Transfer Points, Service Control Points, Signaling Gateways and Base Station Controllers.

Total Cost of Ownership

The hardware and software that comprise SpiderWareSS7 are designed to work across a wide range of applications. This allows developers to use SpiderWareSS7 out of the box with minimal integration effort. By using off-the-shelf enabling technologies such as an SS7 blade, system engineers can concentrate their effort on the high value-added application portions of the system, shortening time to market and reducing the total number of resources required to develop a system. Using SpiderWareSS7 minimizes maintenance costs of the SS7 blade, leaving parts obsolescence and continuation engineering to Emerson. All these factors mean lower total cost of ownership to the telecom equipment maker.

High Performance High Density Signaling Solution

A single SpiderWareSS7 blade provides significant improvements over current SS7 technologies. Emerson's SpdierWareSS7 single-slot cPCI/cPSB blade delivers up to 64 SS7 channels at 100% line utilization on up to 16 E1/T1 interfaces. The blade is capable of delivering up to 128 channels at less than 100% line utilization.

Adaptability

The SpiderWareSS7 blade is generic enough to be used as a building block for many types of telecom equipment. This allows the system designer to work with a subsystem that has been tried and tested in previous installations.

SpiderWareSS7 has full out-of-the-box support for a STREAMS-based implementation of SS7 MTP1 and MTP2. The blade is provided with a Solaris 8 based API which runs on a system host card in a cPCI environment. Alternatively, in a cPSB environment, the API can run under Linux on the blade's local PowerPC 750 processor.

Modularity

SpiderWareSS7's modular concept also enables customers to license the SS7 stack as individual message transfer parts. Each layer is supplied with access to fully documented Application Programming Interfaces (API's) for ease of integration with Emerson's upper layer SS7 protocols, other vendors SS7 protocols, or an OEM's proprietary SS7 networking implementation.

Designed in conformance to standards set out by the ITU, Telcordia and ANSI, the SS7 stack is fully interoperable at each layer with any other available industry standard implementation. Upper layer protocols can reside on the host processor or on application processors that reside on the blade, in the same chassis or across a network in another chassis.

Upper Layer Protocol Support

Upper layer SS7 protocols such as MTP3, ISUP and SCCP are also available and can be integrated on a host processor to communicate across the PCI bus with the lower-level SS7 layers running on the SpiderWareSS7 blade.

Design Flexibility

SpiderWareSS7 has been designed to enable maximum modularity and ease of integration. Based on the STREAMS architecture and its intrinsic flexibility, the stack can easily be "split" between each of the layers providing a variety of implementation and configuration possibilities to the system designer.

In a typical environment, instances of MTP1 and MTP2 run on a single cPSB/cPCI blade (SpiderWareSS7) with MTP3 and other upper layers running on a host card within the same system. This is accomplished through the integration of a unique implementation of a cross-bus distributed STREAMS functionality that facilitates the creation of a resilient, robust, scalable SS7 solution.

Peace of Mind

SpiderWareSS7 bundled protocol software and optional upper layer software is also available for license in source code format providing complete autonomy of development.

SpiderWareSS7's flexibility, portability and modularity provide OEMs with the capability to enable today's established telecom network elements and future network elements with a robust SS7 connectivity.

• Bundled MTP1 (Message Transfer Part-Level 1) based on PowerQUICC II™ platform
• Bundled MTP2 (Message Transfer Part-Level 2) conformant with ITU Q.703, Telcordia GR- 246 T1.111.3 and ANSI T1.111.3
• Optional bundled component: MTP3 conformant with ITU Q.704, Telcordia GR-246 T1.111.4 and ANSI T1.111.4
• Optional bundled component: SCCP conformant with ITU Q.712, Q.713, Q.714, Telcordia GR-246-CORE and ANSI T1.112
• Optional bundled component: ISUP conformant with ITU Q.761, Q.762, Q.763, Q.764, Telcordia GR-246-CORE and ANSI T1.113
• Fully documented APIs allow easy support and configuration for all protocol layers and hardware interface

• SS7 MTP1
• SS7 MTP2
• Optional MTP3, SCCP and ISUP available in source code form
• Integrated STREAMS-based protocol architecture providing communication between protocol layers and application software

• Up to 64 SS7 links at 100% line utilization across 8 or 16 E1/T1 spans
• 128 SS7 links at less than 100% line utilization

• 8 or 16 E1/T1 interfaces
  • Landed via rear transition module
  • Carries SS7 signaling
• 2 10/100BaseTx Ethernet ports

• Compact Packet Switching Backplane (PICMG 2.16)
  • Dual Gigabit Ethernet backplane interfaces
  • Local 750FX application host processor running Linux operating system available for customer use
  • 10/100BaseTx Debug Ethernet port with front panel access
• Base configuration with 8 E1/T1 spans. Upgradeable to 16 E1/T1 spans
• Rear Transition Module (RTM)
  • T1/E1 physical interfaces
  • Up to four rear EIA-232 console serial ports

• PICMG CompactPCI 2.x compliant
  • 64-bit
  • 33MHz
  • Universal Signaling
• Intel 21554 non-transparent bridge
• Base configuration with 8 E1/T1 spans. Upgradeable to 16 E1/T1 spans
• Rear Transition Module (RTM)
  • T1/E1 physical interfaces
  • Up to four rear EIA-232 console serial ports

• Optionally available as PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) module, requiring professional services or customer integration to tailor for specific applications
• Compliant with IEEE 1386.1
• PCI 2.1 compliant

• 8 T1/E1 Spans with up to 32 SS7 channels at 100% line utilization
• 16 T1/E1 Spans with up to 64 SS7 channels at 100% line utilization
• 64, 128, 256 or 512MB host application processor memory

• 8 T1/E1 Spans with up to 32 SS7 channels at 100% line utilization
• 16 T1/E1 Spans with up to 64 SS7 channels at 100% line utilization

• 8 T1/E1 Spans with up to 32 SS7 channels at 100% line utilization

• UL 1950, CSA C22.2 No. 950
• FCC, Part 15 Class B (US)
• ICES 002, Class B (Canada)
• EN55022 Radiated and conducted emissions on I/O ports
• EN55024 Immunity

• Signal Transfer Point (STP)
• Service Switching Point (SSP)
• Service Control Point (SCP)
• Mobile Telephone Switching Office
• Intelligent Peripheral
• Wireless Infrastructure
• Test Equipment

Emerson also offers SpiderWareSG for IP- or SIGTRAN-based signaling applications such as Signaling Gateways, Softswitches, Media Gateway Controllers, and IP Service Control Points.