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Aricent CAP Stack : Features

• SSF (GSM & GPRS) and SCF(combined package for GSM and GPRS) packages available
  
• Easily Portable across operating systems, and hardware platforms
• Well-defined and documented interfaces to the stack (APIs) in the form of "C" structures and packed buffers which can be used by CAP call control entity (at SSP) and Service Logic Program (at SCP)
• Provision of system management APIs for configuration, provisioning and control of the stack
• Extensive Debugging and Trace capabilities provided
• Provides TCAP abstraction layer to ensure CAP stack runs over different TCAP implementations
• Available pre-integrated with Aricent SS7/SIGTRAN layers also
• Provides ASN.1 encoding and decoding
• Availability of wrapper functions for encoding or decoding to eliminate dependency on a specific ASN Compiler
• Extensive support to provide redundancy, statistics, alarm and event reporting
• Sample Applications available for the CAP stack

Aricent CAP Stack: Layer Management Features

The CAP stack provides a comprehensive set of APIs for stack configuration, provisioning and monitoring etc. The APIs enables run-time control of debugging through trace levels. These layer management APIs can be easily integrated with the system management entity of CAMEL node. Aricent provides a sample Layer Management Entity that can be used as a reference for usage of these APIs and for testing and evaluation purposes.

Comprehensive Technical Documentation

The Aricent CAP stack comes with the necessary technical documents to enable ease of usage including User Manual and Porting Guide, API Manuals and Protocol Implementation Conformance Statements (PICS). Conformance test reports are also available.

Aricent CAP stack functionality

The Aricent CAP stack supports the following functionality :

• Provides Service Switching Functionality(for SSPs) and Service Control Functionality (for SCPs) for GSM and GPRS networks
• Renders support for control of GPRS sessions and PDP contexts
• Enables user application to setup and terminate CAP sessions
• Provides well defined interface to invoke CAP operations
• Provides complete state machines based on 3GPP and ETSI specs for interacting with other CAMEL network entities
• Provides ASN.1 Encoding and decoding of CAP messages
• Handling of protocol errors in CAP messages
  

Aricent' CAP Stack: OS Ports

• Sun Solaris
• VxWorks
• Linux
• Windows NT
• Other OS ports can be made available on request

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Aricent Deliverables

• Source code or Binary package for CAP stack
• OS Wrappers for the common operating systems
• User Manual and Porting Guide
• API documents
• Protocol Implementation Conformance Statements (PICS)
• Training and Onsite consultancy
• Turnkey Integration and Porting services
• Warranty and Annual Support Plan
  

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Aricent Related Products

• SS7 stack layers including TCAP, SCCP, MTP3, MTP2
• SIGTRAN layers including SCTP, M3UA,SUA
• Broadband SS7 stack including SAAL, MTP-3b and SCCP layers
• MAP
• 2.5G and 3G SGSN/GGSN

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Last updated : March 9, 2006