RE: RFC 4666 on Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message TransferPart 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)

"Tolga Asveren" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:58:22 -0400

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Brian,

There is no such mechanism defined in SS7 specifications.

  Thanks,
  Tolga

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian F. G. Bidulock [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:55 AM
> To: Tolga Asveren
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sigtran] RFC 4666 on Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message
> TransferPart 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)
> 
> 
> Tolga,
> 
> Tolga Asveren wrote:                                              
>    (Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:31:44)
> > 
> > For the configuration you are mentioning, if the ASP host is 
> down, there is
> > no message retrieval possible in SS7 as well for the similar case.
> 
> When a host (SP) fails in SS7, other SPs are still able to 
> retrieve messages
> from their buffers and send them via alternate SPs.
> 
> M3UA could too, particularly in the case where an SG fails and there
> are multiple SG as STP.
> 
> Again, see:
> 
>  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bidulock-sigtran-corid-04.txt
> 
> --brian
> 
> -- 
> Brian F. G. Bidulock
> [email protected]
> http://www.openss7.org/