Re: CIC as a RK

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:13:37 -0700

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Haresign,

Haresign Lincoln wrote:                                           (Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:54:17)
> Brian,
> 
> Below you say that we could use SLS for loadsharing purposes.  Perhaps
> I'm missing something, but these seems quite insuffient because:
> 
> 1) That limits us to 16 values.

In ITU networks, yes.  But that does not seem to hamper SS7.  If you need
more than 16 ASPs serving an AS, you probably need to design bigger ASPs.

> 2) The SLS value for a call could change during the length of the call.

Yes, but that affects neither sequencing nor equal distribution
for loadsharing.

--brian

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