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

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:55:22 -0600

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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

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