ss7box Blog2007-09-19 SMG ReleaseWoomera version v1.15 : SMG Version v1.18
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New SMG Release2007-07-18wget -c ftp://ftp.sangoma.com/linux/smg/smginstall-2007-07-17a.tgz Conformance Testing2007-05-24ss7box and SMG/Asterisk is undergoing conformance testing with France Telecom. Other locations are queing up. Support for 16 E1 per SMG platform is working now. Call Redirection is being developed. A test of SCTP between ss7boost and sangoma_mgd was successful. We expect to make wider use of SCTP in the near future to replace UDP in critical call-processing situations. SCTP is a critical technology needed for the Clustering feature. Circuit Group maintenace messages reception, hardware blocking, manual circuit reset, linkset alignment (emergency vs normal), rejection of 64 kbs data calls, and COT during call setup are minor features are in development. International Gateway Capability2007-04-02SMG has a new feature called NADI In Prefix to support per-call set/get of the Nature of Address for calling/called numbers on SS7 calls for inbound and outbound calling. Support for CCR and continuity test indicator =1 in IAM is underway. CCR is lab tested and will be field tested soon. Support for call redirection to follow soon. Blocking per ckt is working now. Next up is acting on the CGB/CGU/GRS messages. The clustering feature development preparations are underway. The lab configuration is part of larger effort to connect 8 SMG into a network of simplex and duplex nodes that include two cluster nodes. This configuration will allow all possible signaling configurations for development and regression testing. Developing this lab is not small feat in itself. SMS project delivered, Blocking getting some field testing2007-03-16A minor detour into SCCP/TCAP/GSM/SMS in January turned into a valuable experience and a major detour. ss7boost now reads and writes SMS messages from the SMSC perspective. The SCCP and TCAP stacks had to be improved to do this project. Now they are in much better shape and they will be used to build SCCP/TCAP applications more rapidly in the future. The BLO/BLA/UBL/UBA messages are in the unit tester now making it easy to perform the test cases that require precise control of message sending. All of the normal and abnormal test cases are documented with line-protocol diagrams and cross-checked with Q.764. Testing is underway and no major problems have been found so far. The individual circuit block/unblock/reset tests from Q.784 have been field conformance tested and passed. There are conformance matrices under development for ss7box and ss7boost: http://www.ss7box.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=ss7box+User+Manual#Conformance http://www.ss7box.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=ss7boost+User+Manual#Conformance Blocking Development Underway2007-01-24The specs have been read and re-read. The protocol diagrams have been drawn (56 cases at last count). Coding and testing have commenced. As of today the following have been tested:
Next on the horizon is basic single circuit unblocking. Then tests on circuits in non-idle states will be tested, followed by abnormal and error cases. After that, the circuit group block/unblock reception state machines will be developed. We are still assessing the value of developing the circuit group block/unblock sending state machines. There is a fix for MTP2. The timers were all set to hard-coded values. The user configured values are not being correctly assigned in the 0.2.42 release of xmtp2km. Thank you to all the SMG and ss7box users. Sangoma Signal Media Gateway (SMG) with ss7box and ss7boost came a long way in 2006 and there's no letting up in 2007. In 2006 we concentrated on the single platform configuration and pumping short calls through 8 E1 at 100% capacity for 7 days and succeeded. This is in an F-link configuration which is preferred by most operators in most of the world. Our first half 2007 goals are to:
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