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To: bucky89 who wrote (47205)	5/20/1998 3:13:00 AM
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Bay Offers Plan For IP/SS7 Standard totaltele.com ISSUE #10 WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 1998 Bay Offers Plan For IP/SS7 Standard By a staff reporter Bay Networks is set on improving its good Internet citizen reputation with public switch makers, and has offered its own technology to the foundation of a new standard that will more easily integrate IP devices with switches running the SS7 signalling protocol. Bay has submitted an informational Request for Comment (iRFC) to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), that describes a potential open standard to support interworking between Signalling System 7 (SS7) network elements and Internet elements such as Remote Access Servers (RAS). Bay claims the move reflects growing pressure on service providers to employ SS7 as an alternative for off-loading data traffic from public switched telephone networks. If a standard could be agreed, it would widen the opportunities for service providers to build new services on existing switch infrastructures. "The convergence of the telecom and datacom networks depends not only on allowing traffic to flow, but in creating a network that controls where this traffic flows," said Daniel Pitt, vice president and director of Bay Networks' Architecture Lab. "Reinforcing Bay Networks' philosophy surrounding open standards, support of this open protocol will speed the convergence of the datacom and telecom worlds, and give customers the most comprehensive choice of suppliers." "Demand for Internet access is driving architectural changes in the PSTN," said Dan Taylor, Aberdeen Group's managing director for telecommunications. "The determining factor for these changes is found in the software that controls the network. For IP networks to work better in conjunction with the PSTN, there needs to be a way for these networks to 'speak' to each other. Bay's ASP initiative is an excellent way to enable the development of open standards for IP-to-PSTN interworking." The release of the iRFC to the IETF is targeted to stimulate the development of SS7 Gateway Software across multiple platforms including both Unix and NT. Bay Networks and several companies including Stratus Computer and ADC NewNet have reviewed the specification to date. TechNews is a product of Total Telecom - the global network resource. c1997 Total Telecom. All rights reserved. hdesign : Construction Webmedia : Hosting