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Stratus Middleware

Stratus Integrated Network Applications Platform (SINAP) carrier-grade signaling software

Hardware Platforms
Stratus® Continuum® systems Models 418, 428, 419, 429, 439, 449;
DC and AC options
Stratus ftServer® T Series systems Model T30: DC and AC options
UNIX® operating systems
HP-UX® operating system 32-bit HP-UX 11.00.01, 64-bit HP-UX 11.00.03
ftServer T Series system Stratus fault-tolerant Linux® 2.2
System I/0 adapter support
TCAP and ISUP U420 supports 1 T1/E1 port and 8 SS7 links (32-bit HP-UX only), U403 and U405 support 4 V.35 ports/SS7 links (32-bit HP-UX only)
TCAP U916/U918 supports  4 T1/E1 ports, 32 TCAP low-speed SS7 links
ISUP U916/U918 supports 4 T1/E1 ports, 16 ISUP low-speed SS7 links
Stratus Continuum systems (32-bit HP-UP) Up to 8 V403, V405, or V420: maximum 128 SS7 links per system
Stratus Continuum systems (64-bit HP-UP) Up to 8 U916s: maximum 128 SS7 links per system
Stratus T Series systems Up to 4 U918s: maximum 128 SS7 links per system
Sun servers Up to 3 U916s: maximum 96 SS7 links per system
SINAP/SS7 features
Multistack Supports 1 to 4 nodes (point codes)
Application memory requirement Supports 32-bit and 64-bit mode applications
Node Management Subsystem Includes: (a) operational support for managing client applications, SS7 stack, and SS7 network and (b) application infrastructure support for inter-process messaging, timers, event handling, and software reliability
Built-in Test Environment (BITE) Monitors applications, processes, nodes, links, IPC; includes built-in log analysis program
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) MIB and subagent (SNMP v1, v2c, v3)
SINAP/IP features
IPAS in ASP mode Enables IPAS (ASP)to third-party Signaling Gateway (SG) connectivity
IPAS in IPSP mode Enables IPAS (IPSP) to IPAS (IPSP) or third-party (IPSP) connectivity
SINAP/SS7 protocol conformance
ITU-88 based MTP1, MTP2, and MTP3;
ITU-93 options
Q.701, Q.702, Q.703, Q.704, Q.707
ITU-88 based and  ITU-91 ISUP;
ITU-93 options
Q.761, Q.762, Q.763, Q.764, Q.767
ITU-97 and ITU-93 based ISUP variants UK (97), Belgium, china, Telstra (Australia), NTT, Spain, Mexico, Germany, Taiwan, Sweden, France Telecom
ITU-91 Q.767 based ISUP variants Netherlands, Italy, Brazil
ITU-88 based TCAP with ITU-93 options Q.771, Q.772, Q.773, Q.774
ITU-88 based SCCP with ITU-93 options Q.711, Q.712, Q.713, Q.714
ANSI-90/92/01** based MTP1, MTP2, MTP3 with partial support for '96 and '88 legacy support ANSI T1.111
ANSI-90 based SCCP with support for '92 GTT.
Additional partial support for '96*
ANSI T1.112
ANSI-88/90/92 based ISUP ANSI T1.113
ANSI-90/92 based TCAP ANSI T1.113
China SS7 - August 1990 GF001-9001
NTT - ISUP NTT - Q.762a, Q.763-a, Q.764-a, Edition 1-1
NTT - MTP NTT - Q.700, Q.701-b, Q.702-a, Q.703-a, Q.704-b, Q.707-b
TTC - 94 JT - Q.700-704, Q.707, Q.711-714, Q.771-714. GTT to '94 Q.713 and Q.714
SINAP/C-SLEE and J-SLEE protocol conformance ETSI INAP, CS1, CS2**; CAMEL**; AIN 0.1**
SINAP/SS7-TCAP performance (simple application) Up to 10,000 TCAP TPS @ 80% CPU utilization
TCAP response times Average < 50 ms, 95% < 100 ms, 99% < 250 ms
SINAP/IP protocol conformance
SCTP RFC-2960, RFC 3309, RFC 3257, draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-07, draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpimpguide-08, draft-ietf-tsvwg-addip-sctp-07
M3UA RFC 3332, draft ietf-sigtran-m3ua-implemtors-guide-04.txt
SINAP/SIP protocol conformance
SIP (Core Stack and User Agent Toolkit) RFC 3261, 3262, 2976, 3311, 3428, 3312, 3515, 3265, 3204
SDP RFC 2327, 3264, 3388
  Compliant to a variety of extension drafts (Compliance document available upon request)
SINAP/SS7 configuration support
Links per SINAP platform 128 Low Speed Links (LSL)
Link operating speeds CCITT/ANSI/China/Korea: 4.8, 9.6, 19.2, 38.4, 56, 64 Kbits/s
NTT: 4.8, 48, 64 Kbits/s
Max. number links/link sets 16
Max. number of routes per route set ITU/NTT/China/Korea: 8; ANSI: 4
Max. number route sets/node 2,048 (4 nodes: max. of 8,192 route sets)
Max. number applications registered with a SINAP node 32 (4 nodes: max. of 128 applications)
Max. processes registered with a SINAP node running concurrently 255
Max. instances per application 16
Max. links per combined link set (CLS) 32 ANSI
SINAP/IP configuration support
Max. number SGP per IPAS 16
Max. number SSNs for all IPASs 254
Max. number IP Addresses per SCTP endpoint 2, a primary and a secondary for multi-homing
Max. number SCTP associations to a single endpoint 1, may be multi-homed
Max. number SCTP associations per stack 200 on each of four stacks (each stack 1-2 IP interfaces)
Max. number remote OPC per IPAS 128
SINAP/SIP features
SIP stack Provides support of SIP stack
SIP User Agent Toolkit Provides higher level API for building SIP UA clients and servers
SINAP/SIP configuration support
IP Transport TCP, UDP, TLS
Threading mode Single/multi-threaded
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