Course Name:
SS7 Protocol Online - Instructor-Led - WebEx SESSIONS
Course Tuition: $1495.00
Course Length: Three 7-hour sessions
Description: The Signaling System 7 Protocol On-line course provides an in-depth look at the structure and supporting documents of this widely-deployed telecom signaling protocol. A thorough understanding of its definitions, use and deployment is essential to anyone operating, managing or maintaining the complex telephony network. Emphasis is placed on underlying documentation that supports the protocol’s structure and use in trunk setup and application services.
Course Outline:
- Common Channel Signaling (CCS) Concepts, and Architecture
- Basic terms and definitions
- Signaling examples
- Services offered with CCS
- Switches (SSP)
- Signal Transfer Points (STP)
- Service Control Points (SCP)
- Linksets and Links
- Low-speed links (LSL)
- High-speed links (HSL)
- IP High Speed Links (IPHSL)
- Interconnection arrangements
- Introduction to the SS7 protocol
- SS7 Protocol – MTP
- Supporting documentation
- Signal Unit structure
- Data link layer
- Link layer
- Functions
- Link alignment
- Signal Unit types
- SAAL for HSL
- Sigtran suite of protocols for IP High Speed Links (HSL)
- SCTP
- M2PA
- M2UA
- Network layer
- Routing and link selection (SLS)
- Routesets
- Network Management
- Link Management
- Changeovers, Changebacks, and Signaling Tests
- Route Management
- Transfer Restricted, Transfer Prohibited
- Traffic Management
- Forced Rerouting, Controlled Rerouting, MTP Restarts
- Congestion control
- Transfer Controlled and SRSCT
- Gateway Screening
- MTP, Test and Network Management
- Sigtran suite of protocols for IP High Speed Links (HSL)
- M3UA
- SS7 Protocol – ISDN-UP
- Supporting documentation
- Common trunking terminology – Class IV, Class V, MSC, tandem, IXC
- Structure of ISDN-UP messages
- Messages used by ISDN-UP
- Message and parameter examination
- Trunk maintenance
- Miscellaneous trunking activities
- continuity, glare, busy, suspend, resume
- Sample call flow scenarios
- SS7 to SS7
- To / From IXC’s
- ISDN-UP gateway screening
- SS7 Protocol – SCCP
- Supporting documentation
- Connectionless and connection-oriented services defined
- SCCP messages
- Structure of SCCP messages
- The Unitdata (UDT) message
- Global Title Translation (GTT)
- Translation types
- Address types
- Global title digits
- Global Title routing
- Sample call flows using SCCP and global title translations
- SCCP gateway screening
- SS7 Protocol – TCAP
- Introduction to ANSI TCAP
- Supporting documentation
- TCAP Services
- TCAP Forms
- Structure of ANSI TCAP
- Transaction Portion, Component Portion
- Package types, component types
- National and Private operation codes
- Operation specifiers
- Applications that use ANSI-TCAP
- SS7 Protocol – Applications
- Toll Free
- CLASS
- Calling Name Delivery
- Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)
- Local Number Portability (LNP)
- Call flow scenarios for each application
- Supporting documentation and TCAP structures for each application
- Mobile Applications
- GSM and ANSI-41
Exercises are provided throughout the course re-enforcing a practical understanding of the material. This gives the student practice in analyzing the SS7 protocol and understanding how the data being sent and received is used.
What You Will Learn: This course will provide the structure of the protocol down to the binary level, allowing the student to evaluate SS7 messages as they are used in the Common Channel Signaling (CCS) network. There is also a thorough examination of the feature services that are deployed and how the network and the SS7 protocol support those services.
Who Will Benefit From This Course: This course will be an invaluable tool for those individuals responsible for maintenance and surveillance of the voice or signaling network. In addition it would be valuable for network or traffic engineers, technical support and interconnection specialists.
Course Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of telephony and signaling would be helpful, but not essential.
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