OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform

OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform High-Level Design

About This Manual

This is Edition 7.20141001, last updated 2014-10-25, of The OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform High-Level Design, for Version 1.1 release 7.20141001 of the OpenSS7 package.

Executive Overview

This document provides a High-Level Design for the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform. The initial and primary purpose of this equipment is to provide a scalable, carrier-grade platform for terminating TDM voice circuits from the PSTN and providing Media Gatway capabilities for those terminated circuits. The purpose is both one of hard switching, where circuits are directly connected, as well as soft switching, where circuits are converted to RTP sessions and passed to another Media Gateway.

The OpenSS7 Project

The OpenSS7 Project is an open source software project that has developed many protocol components within the SS7, SIGTRAN, ISDN and VoIP protocol stacks. Intellectual property rights for the OpenSS7 Project are held by OpenSS7 Corporation. All OpenSS7 Project software is eventually licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3. OpenSS7 Corporation also provides commercial licensing of OpenSS7 Project software under terms less restrictive than the AGPL.

OpenSS7 Media Gateway (MG) Platform

OpenSS7 can provide VoIP gateway capabilities in a high-performance, low-cost, small-footprint platform leaveraging the GNU/Linux operating system distributions and tools, and utilizing low-cost commodity, or high-quality standardized hardware.

For details on platform applications, see Application Architecture, Network Architecture, Optional Application Support, and Optional Network Support.

Open Source Software

The OpenSS7 Project leverages the widespread use of GNU/Linux operation systems, distributions, and FSF tools such as ‘autoconf’ and RPM. For example, this document was formatted for PDF, HTML, info and plain text using the GNU texinfo system, ‘autoconf’, and the TeX formatting system.

The open source model avoids proprietary lock-in and permits in-house or outsourced development. All source code is available for use and modification by the end customer. All build tools, documentation and associated resources are generally available. The availability of the source code and complete documentation eases problem resolution and can offer upgrades and fixes even in advance of client problem reports.

For details on software solutions, see Protocol Architecture, Software Architecture, Optional Protocol Support, and Optional Software Support.

Commodity Hardware

By best utilizing commodity PC or standardized CompactPCI hardware, OpenSS7 makes available the highest performance platforms available on the market at back-to-school prices. When carrier-grade and large scale is not essential, 3GHz Pentium class servers in hardened rack mount chassis can be used at a fraction of the cost, and yet outperform, other solutions. Where carrier-grade is necessary, embedded Linux on standardized PICMG 2.16 NEBS compliant chassis make for a higher cost, but more reliable alternative.

For details on hardware solutions, see Platform Architecture, Hardware Architecture, and Optional Hardware Support.

Integrated Management

Utilizing open source management tools, such as net-snmp and OSIMIS, OpenSS7 protocol stacks provide integrated management support for SNMPv2c, SNMPv3, or CMISE/CMIP. The entire platform, from alarms to provisioning, can be provided using integrated SNMP agents.

For details on management solutions, see Platform Architecture, Management Architecture, and Optional Management Support.

Rapid Development

The OpenSS7 Project has already developed protocol components completing the SS7 and SIGTRAN signalling stacks including MTP Level 2 and Level 3, ISUP, SCCP, TCAP; and SCTP, M2PA, M2UA, M3UA, SUA and TUA. Development of a Carrier VoIP Switch to meet initial field requirements needs only the development of some intermediate and auxillary modules.

For details on scheduling, see Logistics.

An Evolving Solution

The OpenSS7 Project is evolving to support more protocol stacks including ISDN and VoIP. Support for an ever expanding capability is demonstrated by the additional options available as described in Optional Application Support, Optional Network Support, Optional Protocol Support, Optional Software Support, and Optional Hardware Support.

Conclusions

In summary, an OpenSS7 Carrier VoIP Switch an excellent application of the OpenSS7 SS7 and VoIP stacks and can be provided at a affordable price on short time-lines, while offering an evolution path for future deployment applications.

Brian Bidulock The OpenSS7 Project

Preface

Document Information

Abstract

This document provides a High-Level Design for the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform.

Objective

The objective of this document is to provide a High-Level Design for the development of a low cost, high-performance, OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform using OpenSS7 protocol components, software, and compatible systems and hardware.

Intent

The intent of this document is to act as a High-Level Design for a project for an High-Level Design. As a High-Level Design, this document discusses components and systems which are not necessarily complete. OpenSS7 Corporation is under no obligation to provide any software, system or feature listed herein.

Audience

This document is intended for a technical audience. The reader should be familiar with most ETSI, ITU-T and ANSI, Signalling System No. 7 recommendations, H.323, H.225, H.245, as well as IETF drafts and RFCS for RTP, SIP, SIP-T, MEGACO, MGCP, and SIGTRAN protocols.

Revisions

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Disclaimer

OpenSS7 Corporation disclaims all warranties with regard to this documentation including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or title; that the contents of the document are suitable for any purpose, or that the implementation of such contents will not infringe on any third party patents, copyrights, trademarks or other rights.. In no event shall OpenSS7 Corporation be liable for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with any use of this document or the performance or implementation of the contents thereof.

OpenSS7 Corporation reserves the right to revise this software and documentation for any reason, including but not limited to, conformity with standards promulgated by various agencies, utilization of advances in the state of the technical arts, or the reflection of changes in the design of any techniques, or procedures embodied, described, or referred to herein. OpenSS7 Corporation is under no obligation to provide any feature listed herein.

Document Organization

This document is organized as follows:

Introduction

Introduction to the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform application.

Application Architecture

The application requirements and architecture.

Network Architecture

The network architecture for the application.

Reference Architecture

The reference architecture for the application.

System Architecture

The architecture of the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform system.

Platform Architecture

The architecture of the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform platform.

Protocol Architecture

The protocol architecture supporting the application.

Software Architecture

The software architecture supporting the protocol stack and application.

Hardware Architecture

The hardware architecture supporting the protocol stack and application.

Management Architecture

The management architecture supporting the system and application.

Logistics

Project logistics for completion of the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform application.

Optional Application Support

Additional application support not directly contributing to the current objective.

Optional Network Support

Additional network interface support not directly contributing to the current objective.

Optional Protocol Support

Additional protocol component support not directly contributing to the current objective.

Optional Software Support

Additional software support not directly contributing to the current objective.

Optional Hardware Support

Additional hardware support not directly contributing to the current objective.

Optional Management Support

Additional managment component support not directly contributing to the current objective.

Programmatic Interfaces

Programmatic interfaces to selected protocol components.

Platform Sizing

Detailed platform sizing considerations.

Index

Index of concepts, manual pages, etc.

1 Introduction

This document provides a High-Level Design for a platform to provide the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform capabilities. The primary driver for the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform is to provide a system capable of interconnecting a VoIP backbone to the PSTN using SS7. This document provide a high-level design and proposal for a production system to provide this capability at a number of scale points.

The proposal utilizes, where possible, existing OpenSS7 protocol stack components and provides a development plan for components that are specific to the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform initial requirements.

This document discusses the resulting software configuration that will be put in place on the production system, the platform configuration for the production system, and a network configuration for deployment. Also discussed is an overview of the project management logistics for successful completion over the course of this development project.

It is intended that this document be a “living” document, that is updated over the course of this development project.

1.1 The OpenSS7 Media Gateway

This project provides an OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform that provides interconnection to the PSTN using TDM circuits and is capable of routng call to and from the PSTN and a VoIP backbone network using hard switching, physical circuit switching, or soft switching, RTP transport.

1.2 Project Drivers

The lead purpose of the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform is to provide PSTN interconnection to an existing VoIP backbone deployment infrastructure that lacks same.

1.3 Scope

Because the focus on low cost, high performance, and production stability, the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform is constructed using commodity computing platforms and PCI based hardware cards, but using hardenned NEBS-3/ETSI compliant chasses in an active/standby failover configuration. This will result in a cost-effective carrier grade system for mid- to low deployment cost.

Because of early deployment drivers yet requirements for scale, the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform platform is constructed using standardized PICMG 2.16 telephony hardware in a NEBS 3/ETSI compliant chassis providing carrier-grade serviceability and reliability. Non-carrier-grade platforms utilizing commodity PC hardware for lower scale installations are possible.

1.3.1 Phases

The longer term project is broken into the following phases:

Phase 1

The initial phase of the project is intended to provide the capabilities of the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform operation for the deployment platform.

Phase 2

The second phase of the project is intended on performing SS7 signalling interoperability testing for live deployment of the signalling gateway production platform.

Phase 3

The third phase of the project is to integrate the deployment platform with the OpenSS7 VoIP Switch using the Internet Protocol suite.

Phase 4

The fourth phase of the project is to perform interoperability testing and a field trial of the deployment platform.

Phase 5

The fifth phase of the project is to complete management system integration for remote monitoring and provisioning for production service.

1.3.2 Gates

Each phase of the project consists of seven gates. The seven gates are defined as follows:

Gate 0 — Concept

Gate 0 is passed when the initial concept has been elucidated and work is begun on a High-Level Design. This is an internal OpenSS7 gate.

Gate 1 — High Level Design

Gate 1 is passed when the high-level design has been reviewed to the satisfaction of the consumers of the project. This is an external review gate. OpenSS7 internally passes this gate once the High-Level Design has been published and work is begun on a detailed design.¹

Gate 2 — Detailed Design

Gate 2 is passed when the detailed design has been reviewed to the satisfaction of the consumers of the project and the developers on the project. This is an external as well as an internal review gate. OpenSS7 passes this gate once the Detailed Design has been published and work has begun on development and implementation of the design.² Passing this gate moves from the design stage to the development stage of the project.

Gate 3 — Deployment and Implementation

Gate 3 is passed when the software and systems development and implementation to the detailed design is complete and testing has begun. This is an internal review gate. OpenSS7 internally passes this gate when software is code complete and hardware has been installed for testing.

Gate 4 — System Test

Gate 4 is passed once the product implementation meets all internal ad hoc and formal conformance test suites and internal testing is complete. This is an internal review gate. OpenSS7 passes this gate internally once conformance testing is complete. Passing this gate moves from the development stage to the support stage of the project.

Gate 5 — Acceptance Test

Gate 5 is passed once the product implementation has passed external Gamma client acceptance testing. This is an external review gate. OpenSS7 passes this gate internally once participation in external acceptance testing is complete.

Gate 6 — Project Complete

Gate 6 is passed once all support obligations for the product implementation have been discharged. This is an internal review gate. OpenSS7 passes this gate once support agreements have terminated.

For more details on Gate scheduling for Phase 1, 2 and 3 of the project, see Schedule.

2 Application Architecture

The OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform is intended to provide high performance and high-density PSTN to VoIP backbone gateway.

2.1 Application Background

2.2 Application Objectives

2.3 Application Requirements

Application requirements have been broken into 5 phases using the timeboxing approach.

2.3.1 Phase 1 Requirements

Phase 1 requirements provide an OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform capability that will connect an existing H.323 VoIP network to the PSTN using SS7 ISUP trunks.

2.3.2 Phase 2 Requirements

Phase 2 requirements provide SIP-T capabilities.

2.3.3 Phase 3 Requirements

Phase 3 requirements provide network service capabilities.

2.3.4 Phase 4 Requirements

Phase 4 requirements expose internal interfaces to provide softswitch capabilities.

2.3.5 Phase 5 Requirements

Phase 5 requirements complete full VoIP (NGN) switching.

2.4 Solution Architecture

Although the functions of Media Gateway Controller, Media Gateway and Signalling Gateway have been decomposed, and in the past these functional groups have been implemented on separate physical platforms, modern compute capacity and densities permit these functions to be integrated into a single physical platform without limitation. Open standard interfaces are utilized internal to the platform to permit a decomposed model to be split out and to permit ETSI Tiphon Version 4 compatibility as well as Multi-Services Forum Version 2 compatibility.

2.4.1 OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform for Deployment

In light of the foregoing, the solution architecture takes the form of an integrated media gateway capable of providing a number of functional groups in the traditional models. The OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform integrates the following functional groups while still permitting standard interfaces to be exposed for maximum deployment flexibility:

2.5 Message Flows

This section provides some illustrative application call flows:³

3 Network Architecture

Figure 3.1 illustrates the call path for various calls within the softswitching complex.

1. Intra-MG calls originate on a network SSP and terminate on a network SSP, both attached to the same MG. This is an intra-MG call in that the call never traverses more than one MG.
2. Inter-MG calls originate on a network SSP and terminate on a network SSP, each attached to a different MG. This is an inter-MG call within the same switching complex as the call traverses two MGs.
3. Trans-MG calls originate on a network SSP and terminate on a network VoIP gateway.

Signalling is via a path typically separate from the MG. In the illustration in Figure 3.1, the signalling is via external STPs that are attached to switching complex Signalling Gateways (SGs) that communicate with the Media Gateway Controller. In some arrangements, the MG is possibly also a Signalling Gateway.

Figure 3.2 illustrates the placement of the Media Gateway (MG) within the decomposed Service Switching Point and its connection to Media Gateway Controllers within the switching complex as well as to Service Switching Points (SSPs) in the external network. As illustrated, the MG terminates media gateway control messaging from the Media Gateway Controller (MGC) and attaches to external network SSPs using TDM voice trunks.

4 Reference Architecture

4.1 ETSI TIPHON

Figure 2.1 illustrates the ETSI TIPHON reference architecture.

4.1.1 ETSI TIPHON Entities

The ETSI TIPHON model illustrated in Figure 2.1 contains the following reference entities:

Terminal:

The H.323, SIP or MEGACO Terminal support the A or B interface. The A interface is used for communicating with an H.323 Gatekeeper; SIP Forwarding Server, Proxy Server or User Agent.

Terminal devices are external to the NG switching complex. In initial phases, Terminal device interface A (see ‘Reference Interface A’) will only be supported via external H.323 Gatekeepers; SIP Forwarding Server or SIP Proxy Server. Direct Terminal device attachment for H.323, SIP and H.248 Terminals will be supported in later phases.

Gatekeeper:

The H.323 Gatekeeper, SIP Forwarding Server, or SIP Proxy Server, supports the A, C, D and G interfaces.

The NG switching complex will support an internal Gatekeeper function that will intially support the D and C interfaces, and will support the A interface in later phases. Intitially the G interface will be internal to the platform, and will be exposed in later phases.

In the NG switching complex, the Gatekeeper performs the role of a call-by-call server (and is termed the CBC) which performance access authorization, routing and other functions on a call by call basis, for FGD, H.323 and SIP calls.

Media Gateway Controller:

The H.323 or SIP Media Gateway Controller supports the C, F, J and N interfaces. The NG swtiching complex will incorporate an integral Media Gateway Controller function. In the field deployment the C, F, J and N interfaces will be exposed.

The SIP Media Gateway Controller is primarily responsible for conversion of SCN signalling from the PSTN on the J interface to VoIP signalling tot he SIP Redirect/Proxy server on the C interface. Also, the SIP MGC must coordinate this conversion with the control of media conversion from G.703/704 G.711 A- and mu-law circtuis from the PSTN to RTP/RTCP channels within the VoIP network.

Media Gateway:

Signalling Gateway:

Back End:

Session Border Controller:

The Session Border Controller is not illustrated in the ETSI TIPHON illustration, Figure 2.1.

In essesnce a Session Border Controller is a security devices but may also be a protocol conversion device. The Session Border Controller sits on the A, B or D interfaces, when those interfaces span an administrative, security or protocol domain.

4.1.2 ETSI TIPHON Reference Points

The ETSI TIPHON model illustrated in Figure 2.1 contains the following reference interfaces:

Interface A

Interface B

Interface C

Interface D

Interface E.a

Interface E.b

Interface F

Interface G

Interface J

Interface N

4.2 Interfaces

The interfaces suppored by the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform are illustrated in Figure 2.3. The interfaces are enumerated as follows:

1. Primary Media Gateway Controller (MGC) Interface

   This interface provides primary MGC circuit switching control. Typical protocols include an H.248/MEGACO and Q.1950 profile. The profile should include an Intra-MG and Inter-MG switching package in the profile.

2. Secondary Media Gateway Controller (MGC) Interface

   This inteface provides secondary (backup) MGC circuit switching control. Typical protocols include an H.248/MEGACO and Q.1950 profile. The profile should include an Intra-MG and Inter-MG switching package in the profile.

3. Service Switching Point (SSP) Interface Type I

   This interface is an Inter-Machine or PABX Trunk based on CAS signalling, with Type I signalling (customer). The physical interface is T1, E1, J1, T3, E2, OC3, OC12 or OC48.

4. Service Switching Point (SSP) Interface Type II

   This interface is an FGD Inter-Machine Trunk on SS7 or CAS signalling, with Type II signalling (local or toll tandem). The physical interface is T1, E1, J1, T3, E2, OC3, OC12 or OC48.

5. Data Session Border Gateway (D-SBG) Interface

   This interface is RTP/RTCP over UDP over Internet Protocol (IP). The D-SBG provides pinhole firewall control over RTP/RTCP sessions under control of the S-SBG.

6. Media Gateway (MG) Interface

   This interface is an MG to MG interface. This interface multiplexes TDM signals over an IP network connection using a profile of ITU-T and IETF NGN protocols. Switching to and from these interfaces are controlled via an Inter-MG switching package on the MG. Multiple MG can be ganged together in this fashion to appear as a signle switching fabric to the MGC.

7. Signalling Session Border Gateway (S-SBG) Interface

   This interface is unused.

8. Operations Support System (OSS) Interface

   This interface provids OAM&P for the MG platform. The protocol is a management profile that can include SNMPv2c, SNMPv3, CMISE/CMIP, CMOT, IPMI, CIM, DTMF, WS-MAN, etc.

These interfaces and the protocol profile requirements are detailed in the sub-sections that follow:

4.2.1 Primary MGC Interface

4.2.2 Secondary MGC Interface

4.2.3 SSP Type I Interface

4.2.4 SSP Type II Interface

4.2.5 D-SBG Interface

4.2.6 MG Interface

4.2.7 S-SBG Interface

4.2.8 OSS Interface

5 System Architecture

This section details the solution system architecture. The solution system architecture consists of the computing platform and it placement within the locale installation environment.

The solution system has the following requirements:

• — 19" rack.
• — -48 VDC electrical power.
• — CO cooling.
• — Bantam to RJ-48c patch pannel.

6 Platform Architecture

This section details the platform architecture. The solution platform architecture consists of the computing platform and associated hardware, interfaces and peripherals.

Figure 5.1 illustrates the solution platform rack configuration.

The solution platform consists of the following:

• — Two hardened PC (2U) chassis per system.
• — Two GigE (1000baseT) RJ-48c Layer 2 Ethernet Switches.
• — Two 1-1 DSX 14 T1 patch pannels.

6.1 Platform Capacity

The PC chasses is equipped with the following:⁴

• – 2 x 3.2GHz Xeon class E7520 based Motherboard.
• – 2 x 100MHz PCI-X 2.1 bus.
• – 4G DDR memory.
• – 2 x Ultra320 SCSI hard drives.
• – 2 X GigE Ethernet NICs.
• – 3 x V401PT Quad T1 interface cards.

7 Protocol Architecture

Figure 6.1 illustrates the protocol configuration of the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform system. The protocol stack uses the following OpenSS7 stack components:

7.1 Protocol Components

The following Protocol Components are provided as part of the OpenSS7 MG stack:

7.1.1 Media Gateway (MG) Stack Manager

The Media Gateway (MG) Stack Manager provides management of the MG stack components. It is discussed in more detail in Management Architecture.

7.1.2 Media Gateway (MG) Switching Application

7.1.3 Media Gateway (MG) Driver

The Media Gateway (MG) Driver provides a unified interface to local switching functions, remote switching functions, and media gateway server functions. The driver controls a local MX driver to perform local switching functions and accesses the client version of the MEGACO/H.248 driver to perform remote switching functions. The server version of the MEGACO/H.248 driver is accessed by the MG driver to provide control of MG functions to a remote MGC.

7.1.4 MEGACO/H.248 (H248) Driver

The MEGACO/H.248 (H248) Driver provides a media gateway interface to local or remote switching functions using the MEGACO/H.248 protocol and packages. A client version of the driver is located at the Media Gateway Controller and a server version of the driver is located at the Media Gateway. This project uses the server version of the driver.

7.1.5 Multiplex/Channel (MX/CH) Driver

The Multiplex/Channel (MX/CH) Driver performs soft-switching of multiplex Streams as well as channel access to channels within multiplex Streams. This driver links multiplex interfaces beneath it and presents both multiplex and channel interfaces to it users. For this project, the MX/CH driver is used to link PCI 532 DE, V401P, VToIP or RTP/RTCP MX Streams beneath the driver and provide channel access to DS0, DS1 or full DS3 channels within the multiplex for use by the Media Gateway. Multiplex streams present an MX interface to its users. Channel streams present a CH interface to its users. The CH interfaces are converted to appropriate Streams using additional modules.

The MX/CH drivers supports T1, E1 and J1 operation, as well as T3 and E2 operation, both for locally attached TDM trunks, locally terminated VToIP trunks, and RTP/RTCP streams. The driver provides a specialized MX and CH interface to its users.

This is an existing OpenSS7 channel stack component; for documentation see mx(4) and ch(4).

The Multiplex/Channel (MX/CH) driver is responsible for providing CH services to its users.

7.1.6 PCI 532 DE Multiplex (MX) Driver

The PCI 532 DE Multiplex (MX) Driver provides MX services for locally attached DSX-3 or E3 facilities. This driver provides hardware interface to TDM facilities and allows the MX driver to provide transparent switching capabilities for DSX-3 or E3 TDM facilities.

The PCI 532 DE MX driver supports DSX-3 and E3 oepration for locally attached TDM trunks. The driver provides a specialized MX interface at the DS3 rate to its users. Neither a DS1 rate MX interface nor a NxDS0 CH interface is provided. A DS1 rate MX interface and NxDS0 CH interface can be acessed by linking this driver under the generic MX/CH driver.

This is an existing OpenSS7 channel stack component; for documentation see pci532(4) and mx(4).

7.1.7 V401P Multiplex (MX) Driver

The V401P Multiplex (MX) Driver provides MX services for locally attached DSX-1 or E1 facilities. This driver provides hardware interface to TDM facilities and allows the MX driver to provide transparent switching capabilities for DSX-1 or E1 TDM facilities.

The V401P MX driver supports DSX-1, E2 and J2 operation for locally attached TDM trunks. The driver provides a specialized MX interface to its users. A CH interface is not provided but can be accessed by linking this driver under the generic MX/CH driver.

This is an existing OpenSS7 channel stack component; for documentation see v401p(4) and mx(4).

7.1.8 Voice Trunking over IP (VToIP) Driver

The Voice Trunking over IP (VToIP) Driver provides MX services for virtual trunks using ITU-T Recommendation Y.1452, or transparent unstructured DSX-1, E1, DSX-3, E3 MX services using ITU-T Recommendation Y.1453. This driver uses ATM AAL1 or AAL2 CPS PDUs encapsulated in RTP or UDP packets. The primary purpose of this driver for the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform is to provide Inter-MG switching capabilities utilizing distributed matrix control.

The VToIP MX driver supports unstructured DSX-3 and E3 operation, structured and unstructured DSX-1 and E1 operation, and structure NxDS0 operation. The driver provides a specialized MX or CH interface to its users. The driver can be linked under the generic MX/CH driver for transpartent matrix switching operation.

This is an existing OpenSS7 channel stack component; for documentation see vtoip(4), mx(4) and ch(4).

7.1.9 Real-Time Transport (Control) Protocol (RTP/RTCP) Driver

The Real-Time Transport (Control) Protocol (RTP/RTCP) Driver provides MX services for RTP/RTCP voice channels. This driver maps individual RTP/RTCP streams into an MX group for use with the Generic MX/CH driver. The driver provides codec conversion to and from G.711 mu- or A-law, jitter buffering, digital padding, echo cancellation and other VoIP mechanisms including out-of-band DTMF.

The RTP/RTCP drivers supports audio profile streams. The driver provides a specialized MX or CH interface to its users. The driver can be linked under the generic MX/CH driver for transparent matrix switching operation.

This is an existing OpenSS7 channel stack component; for documentation see rtp(4), mx(4) and ch(4).

7.1.10 User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Driver

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Driver is a STREAMS based driver providing access to the underlying UDP layer in the Linux kernel. The primary use of this component in the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform is to provide UDP services to the RTP/RTCP driver, the VToIP driver, and the MEGACO/H.248 driver. This is an existing OpenSS7 XNS stack component; for documentation, see udp(4).

7.1.11 Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Driver

OpenSS7 has two implementations (STREAMS and Linux Sockets) that provide support for this new transport protocol and that provide transport for SIGTRAN and other protocols. The STREAMS SCTP implementation provides an NPI Revision 2.0 and TPI Revision 2.0 interface to its users. Alos supported is an X/Open XNS 5.2 XTI Library and ITOS (ISO over SCTP). The Linux Native SCTP implementation provides a Sockets interface.

This is an existing OpenSS7 SIGTRAN stack component; for documentation, see: sctp(4). Phase 1 activities for SCTP include integration testing with the SG components.

7.1.12 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Driver

7.1.13 Internet Protocol (IP) Driver

The Internet Protocol (IP) Driver is a STREAMS based driver providing access to the underlying IP layer in the Linux kernel. The primary use of this component in the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform is to provide IP services to the UDP, RTP/RTCP, and VToIP drivers. This is an existing OpenSS7 XNS stack component; for documentation, see ip(4).

8 Software Architecture

9 Operations Architecture

This chapter details the software configuration of the OpenSS7 solutions. OpenSS7 stack software is based on the STREAMS facility running on the Linux Operating System. This provides for use of the Linux Operating System while maintaining portability and consistency with major UNIX operating systems that provide an SVR 4.2 ES/MP STREAMS facility.

9.1 Linux Operating System

The OpenSS7 STREAMS releases and stacks currently support the 2.4, 2.6 and 3.x Linux Kernel. A Linux kernel version greater than or equal to 2.4.18 is recommended for 2.4 kernels. The Linux 2.5 series kernels are not supported. A Linux kernel version greater than or equal to 2.6.9 is recommended for 2.6 kernels. Any kernel beginning with 3.0 in the 3.x kernel series is acceptable. Linux 2.4, 2.6 and 3.x kernels released by popular distributions are supported. These include kernel.org releases, RedHat (7.2, 9, EL3, AS/EL4, EL5, EL6), WhiteBox (EL3, EL4), Fedora Core (FC1-FC15), Debian (Woody-Wheezy), Ubuntu (6.10-11.04), SuSE (8.2-12.4 OSS, 9.0-12.1 SLES), CentOS(4, 5 and 6), Lineox (4 and 5), Scientific (5 and 6), PUIAS (5 and 6), Oracle (5 and 6). Currently our preferred distribution is CentOS 5 with all updates applied.

Although OpenSS7 STREAMS SS7 and SIGTRAN stacks are tested primarily on ix86 hardware, the stacks compile and install on PPC (MPC 8260, Freescale 440), HPPA, and other processor architectures supported by the Linux 2.4, 2.6 and 3.x kernels.

For the current project, RedHat AS/EL5 or CentOS 5 is recommended.

9.2 STREAMS Facility

OpenSS7 STREAMS SS7 and SIGTRAN stacks utilize a SVR 4.2 ES/MP STREAMS facility.

9.3 OpenSS7 SS7 and SIGTRAN Stacks

The OpenSS7 SS7 and SIGTRAN stacks are implemented using the STREAMS facility. Protocol moduels within the stack are implemented as STREAMS modules, device drivers, multiplexing drivers and pseudo-device drivers. The STREAMS facility has the ability to stack modules and multiplexing drivers above read or pseudo-device drivers using the STREAMS I_PUSH(7) an I_LINK(7) facilities. Since STREAMS modules and drivers run within the context of the Operating System Kernel using message-based scheduling, greatly increased performance is experienced over equivalent user-space applications. STREAMS modules and drivers communicate by passing priority. In addition, STREAMS provides memory management, timer, locking, syncrhonization, flow control and other facilities commonly used by protocol modules.

Each OpenSS7 protocol module provides standardized X/Open ISO/OSI interfaces as well as more SS7 specialized interfaces. Many of the OpenSS7 protocol modules provide TPI Revision 2.0 interfaces with support fot he OpenSS7 XTI/TLI Library.

Figure 7.2 illustrates the organization of STREAMS modules, multiplexing drivers, pseudo-device drivers and real device drivers in the OpenSS7 SS7 stack. At each interface, the equivalent SIGTRAN User Adaptation Layer (UA) can be used. So, for example, between MTP Level 3 and its Users, the M3UA protocol can be employed. Each UA provides the same lower layer interface and upper layer interface. So, M3UA provides an MTP/MTP-User interface at its lower layer interface as well as at it supper layer interface.

10 Hardware Architecture

Figure 8.1 illustrates the hardware configuration for the OpenSS7 Media Gateway Platform.

The configuration show in Figure 8.1 shows:

• Two compute nodes attached in a fully redundant configuration.
• Each compute node has 3 x V401P-SS7 cards proding quad DSX-1 connectivity per card, for a total of 12 DSX-1’s per compute node.
• Each compute node is attached via cross-connect over 12 DSX-1’s (each) to a DACS which has drop-down capability on each pair of DSX-1’s consisting of one DSX-1 from each compute node.
• On the IP network side, each compute node supports 2 GigE NIC ports.
• Each NIC port on each compute node is attached to a GigE rail or swtich which subsequently attacheds to two Routers, one for Network A and one for Network B.
• The configuration shown supports up to 288 low-speed (56 or 64 kbps) signalling links or up to 12 high-speed (1.544 Mpbs) signalling links.
• Compute nodes communicate with each other over the IP network, either via local switch or remote router, using M2UA. This SIGTRAN protocol permits the compute node to logically share their V401P-SS7 hardware interfaces.
• Compute nodes communicate with the associated STP pair via TDM links as well as using the M2PA protocol. The M2PA SIGTRAN protocol provides an IP-based high-speed SS7 link and is used to augment TDM links to implement C-Links on the platform.
• Compont nodes act as SGP within the SG and provide MTP Level 3 and above connectivity to remote application servers using the M3UA SIGTRAN protocol. The M3UA SIGTRAN protocol exports the MTP to MTP-User interface and effectivley transports the interface to the application server from the signalling gateway.

11 Management Architecture

Characteristics of the management architecture are as follows:

1. The MG is a portion of a managed switching element. As such, the MG is a managed element that is only part of a managed switching element. Management Stations may correlate similar managed data that occurs both on the MGC and the MG, or the MGC might be capable of providing a single managed switching element view.

The management facilities provided by the hardware platform, operating system and associated subsystems are illustrated in Figure 9.1. They are summarized as follows:

• Platform Hardware

  The platform hardware provides for physical management of hardware resources. Platform hardware is configured for rack-mount operation in a Telco environment. It provides for field replacable units. A number of hardware features provide for local physical managements, such as sliding rack mounts, cable management, chassis LEDS, unit identification, chassis LEDS, KVM, auxillary DCS panels, monitoring ports, front-panel management controls and ports.

• Linux Kernel
• ACPI
• IPMI
• Linux Fast-STREAMS
• SNMP
• TMN

12 Logistics

12.1 Hardware

12.1.1 Sizing Considerations

12.2 Software

12.3 Consulting

12.4 Schedule

12.4.1 Gate 0 — Concept

12.4.2 Gate 1 — High-Level Design

12.4.3 Gate 2 — Detailed Design

12.4.4 Gate 3 — Development and Implementation

12.4.5 Gate 4 — System Test

12.4.6 Gate 5 — Acceptance Testing

12.4.7 Gate 6 — Support Complete

12.5 Cost

Appendix A Optional Application Support

Appendix B Optional Network Support

Appendix C Optional System Support

Appendix D Optional Platform Support

Appendix E Optional Protocol Support

Appendix F Optional Software Support

Appendix G Optional Hardware Support

Appendix H Optional Management Support

Appendix I Programmatic Interfaces

Appendix J Platform Sizing

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1. PREAMBLE

   The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.

   This License is a kind of “copyleft”, which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software.

   We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.

2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

   This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this License. Such a notice grants a world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that work under the conditions stated herein. The “Document”, below, refers to any such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as “you”. You accept the license if you copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under copyright law.

   A “Modified Version” of the Document means any work containing the Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with modifications and/or translated into another language.

   A “Secondary Section” is a named appendix or a front-matter section of the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the publishers or authors of the Document to the Document’s overall subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly within that overall subject. (Thus, if the Document is in part a textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal, commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.

   The “Invariant Sections” are certain Secondary Sections whose titles are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License. If a section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as Invariant. The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant Sections then there are none.

   The “Cover Texts” are certain short passages of text that are listed, as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License. A Front-Cover Text may be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words.

   A “Transparent” copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy, represented in a format whose specification is available to the general public, that is suitable for revising the document straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount of text. A copy that is not “Transparent” is called “Opaque”.

   Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML, PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples of transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG. Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools are not generally available, and the machine-generated HTML, PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for output purposes only.

   The “Title Page” means, for a printed book, the title page itself, plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in formats which do not have any title page as such, “Title Page” means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work’s title, preceding the beginning of the body of the text.

   The “publisher” means any person or entity that distributes copies of the Document to the public.

   A section “Entitled XYZ” means a named subunit of the Document whose title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a specific section name mentioned below, such as “Acknowledgements”, “Dedications”, “Endorsements”, or “History”.) To “Preserve the Title” of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a section “Entitled XYZ” according to this definition.

   The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which states that this License applies to the Document. These Warranty Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has no effect on the meaning of this License.

3. VERBATIM COPYING

   You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.

   You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and you may publicly display copies.

4. COPYING IN QUANTITY

   If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the Document’s license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition. Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated as verbatim copying in other respects.

   If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent pages.

   If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer-network location from which the general network-using public has access to download using public-standard network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material. If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition to the public.

   It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.

5. MODIFICATIONS

   You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:

   1. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
   2. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you from this requirement.
   3. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the Modified Version, as the publisher.
   4. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
   5. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications adjacent to the other copyright notices.
   6. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
   7. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document’s license notice.
   8. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
   9. Preserve the section Entitled “History”, Preserve its Title, and add to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If there is no section Entitled “History” in the Document, create one stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence.
   10. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on. These may be placed in the “History” section. You may omit a network location for a work that was published at least four years before the Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
   11. For any section Entitled “Acknowledgements” or “Dedications”, Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or dedications given therein.
   12. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
   13. Delete any section Entitled “Endorsements”. Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version.
   14. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled “Endorsements” or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
   15. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.

   If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version’s license notice. These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.

   You may add a section Entitled “Endorsements”, provided it contains nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various parties—for example, statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard.

   You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of, you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.

   The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.

6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS

   You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.

   The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number. Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.

   In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled “History” in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled “History”; likewise combine any sections Entitled “Acknowledgements”, and any sections Entitled “Dedications”. You must delete all sections Entitled “Endorsements.”

7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS

   You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.

   You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.

8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS

   A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights of the compilation’s users beyond what the individual works permit. When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves derivative works of the Document.

   If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of the entire aggregate, the Document’s Cover Texts may be placed on covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form. Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole aggregate.

9. TRANSLATION

   Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4. Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright holders, but you may include translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a translation of this License, and all the license notices in the Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include the original English version of this License and the original versions of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between the translation and the original version of this License or a notice or disclaimer, the original version will prevail.

   If a section in the Document is Entitled “Acknowledgements”, “Dedications”, or “History”, the requirement (section 4) to Preserve its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual title.

10. TERMINATION

    You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.

    However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.

    Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.

    Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under this License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently reinstated, receipt of a copy of some or all of the same material does not give you any rights to use it.

11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE

    The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.

    Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number. If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this License “or any later version” applies to it, you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of this License can be used, that proxy’s public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the Document.

12. RELICENSING

    “Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site” (or “MMC Site”) means any World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works. A public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server. A “Massive Multiauthor Collaboration” (or “MMC”) contained in the site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC site.

    “CC-BY-SA” means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation with a principal place of business in San Francisco, California, as well as future copyleft versions of that license published by that same organization.

    “Incorporate” means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or in part, as part of another Document.

    An MMC is “eligible for relicensing” if it is licensed under this License, and if all works that were first published under this License somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections, and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.

    The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009, provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.

ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page:

  Copyright (C)  year  your name.
  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
  or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
  with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
  Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
  Free Documentation License''.

If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, replace the “with…Texts.” line with this:

    with the Invariant Sections being list their titles, with
    the Front-Cover Texts being list, and with the Back-Cover Texts
    being list.

If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the situation.

If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit their use in free software.

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