
Dialogic TX 5000 Series SS7 Boards
Signaling with Dialogic NaturalAccess Software
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Overview:
The Dialogic TX 5000 Series SS7 Boards offer a range of throughput capacity and signaling protocol support with Dialogic NaturalAccess Software. The TX 5000 Series architecture combines TDM connectivity and transport with the SS7 protocol layers required for higher level application interface.
PCI Express Hardware
The TX 5500E and the TX 5020E are full length, full height form factor boards, requiring a single x4 PCI Express slot. The design includes an H.100 interface for connecting H.100 bus timeslots to both the SS7 signaling resources and external interfaces to accommodate different configurations.
Onboard Protocol Execution
The TX 5000 Series boards are available with MTP or MTP, ISUP, TUP, and BICC layers of the SS7 stack running on the board processors. Each product requires an appropriate SS7 software runtime license and comes with drivers to support Windows, Solaris, or Linux.
Multiple Network Interfaces
The TX 5000 Series boards provide up to four digital trunk interfaces, which are software-configurable to support T1 or E1 connections. Also included is a 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface, which is used for redundancy.
For network interfaces, all channels from the primary rate digital trunk interfaces can either be terminated locally on the TX 5000 Series board or switched onto the H.100 bus for processing by other H.100-compliant products.
H.100 Provides Open Architecture and Vendor Independence
The H.100 bus and switching feature provides flexibility, openness, and vendor independence, with access to other resources, such as voice and call processing and speech recognizers.
Redundancy
When deploying two boards from the TX 5000 Series in a redundant configuration, one of the onboard Ethernet interfaces is required. The interface supports a dedicated point-to-point link to provide extremely fast data transfer between the two boards. This approach avoids the need to transfer lower-level data over the host computer's bus and significantly improves SS7 signaling performance.
Redundancy protects against signal¬ing link, board and node failure. A typical redundant configuration has two boards - one primary and one backup - under a single point code, with active links going to each board. Link-level redundancy is managed automatically at the MTP level. Higher level check-point¬ing is implemented by the application for total redundancy.
Features and Benefits:
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Hardware and protocol software combined — MTP at the lower layers, plus ISUP, TUP, and BICC | Minimizes host loading and simplifies integration |
Uses Dialogic NaturalAccess Software | Eases integration with Dialogic media boards that support NaturalAccess Software |
High-impedance (HiZ) connectivity | Enables passive signaling traffic monitoring |
H.100 bus interface | Provides integration with other H.100 products, including the combination of data communications and voice streams over the same physical trunk |
Downloadable control software | Reduces host overhead and uses host processing time efficiently when running applications |
One 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface | Allows two separate boards to share a single point code |
Two system design options - node redundancy or board redundancy | Helps enable high availability in one or multiple synchronized systems |
Onboard temperature sensor | Promotes safe operation by first sending an alarm and then shutting down the TX 5000 board if temperature exceeds safe operating limits |
Specifications:
TX 5020E | TX 5500E | |
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SS7 channelized links (64/56/48Kbps) | 4, 16, 32 | 64, 128 |
HSL Q703 | 0, 4 | 4 |
Performance- Calls per second | 240 | 1,900 |
Performance - Transactions per second | 510 | 3,800 |
Frame format | PCI Express | |
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TDM bus full-duplex connections |
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PSTN network connections |
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Ethernet connectivity |
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Monitoring | HiZ | |
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Available onboard protocols | SS7: MTP2, MTP3, ISUP, TUP, SCCP, TCAP | |
Operating system support | Windows, Linux, and Solaris |
Documentation:
Download the Dialogic TX 5000 Series SS7 Boards Datasheet (.PDF)