SIGTRAN-BRICKS

Enea Netbricks Line of Protocols for NGN and IMS Signaling

Enea offers a wide range of highly portable telecom protocol stacks for TDM, 3G, IMS, and NGN networks, as well as fax and data transfer protocols and signal processing and analysis software. All Enea Netbricks protocols stacks are compliant with ITU, ETSI, ANSI, IETF, 3GPP, and many other standards bodies’ specifications.

All of Enea Netbricks protocols are written in ANSI C and take advantage of a modular, portable architecture that allows hardware platform and compiler independence. Enea Netbricks protocols are provided in source code to over 400 network equipment providers (NEPs), and device OEMs worldwide, assisting them in getting products to market quickly, with very low risk and significantly reduced development costs.

  • Portable protocol stacks compliant with protocol standards as published by the key standards bodies around the world (ITU, ETSI, ANSI, IETF, 3GPP).
  • Supplied as source code.
  • Used by over 400 global, industry leading telecommunications equipment manufacturers and OEMs.
  • Backed by over 20 years of protocol development expertise and 40 years of telecom software expertise

Overview

ENEA Netbricks SIGTRAN-Bricks stack is a source code implementation of the SIGTRAN protocol suite as laid down by the IETF Transport Working Group. The SIGTRAN (SIGnalling TRANsport) is part of the NGN protocols for transporting signaling over IP based networks. It is designed for transporting signaling traffic such as ISDN, SS7 and V5 over an IP network. SIGTRAN is composed of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and the User Adaption Layers (UA) for each signalling protocol transported over IP. Standardized user adaptation layers includes: iua, dua, m2ua, m3ua, sua, m2pa, v5ua.

Features/Benefits

  • Complete list of User Adaptation layers (UA) with consistent API
  • Extensive support of different working modes according to standards (SG, AS, IPSP modes)
  • Features IPv4/IPv6 support already
  • All Sigtran protocol layers have been extensively tested for interoperability with multiple vendors during the several SCTP and ETSI SIGTRAN plugtests events.
  • Gateway or MGC simulation tool for tests in lab is part of standard supply
  • Large list of deployed equipments using SIGTRAN-Bricks technology worldwide including: Softswitch, Media and signaling gateways, Voice IAD, Application Servers, FemtoCell and IP base station.

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    Specifications

    ENEA Netbricks SIGTRAN-Bricks stack is composed of the following protocol layers that can be provided independently.

    • SCTP: RFC 4960, RFC 2104, RFC 2581, RFC 4460, RFC 5061.
    • M2UA: MTP2 User adaptation layer RFC 3331.
    • M2PA: MTP2 Peer to Peer adaptation layer RFC 4165.
    • M3UA: MTP3 User adaptation layer RFC 4666 (which obsoletes RFC 3332).
    • IUA: ISDN User adaptation layer RFC 4233 (which obsoletes RFC 3057 and 3057bis).
    • DUA: DPNSS User adaptation layer RFC 4129.
    • SUA: SSCP User adaptation layer RFC 3868, “draft-ietf-sigtran-sua-implementor-guide-05”.
    • V5UA: V.5 User adaptation layer RFC 3807.

    For more information see the SIGTRAN-BRICKS datasheet

     Related Products

    ENEA Netbricks SIGTRAN-Bricks stack can be easily combined with the following other software products belonging to Netbricks range of protocols in a seamless way in order to compose complete protocol packages required in signaling gateways or call agents and softswitch:

    • LAP-Bricks with IUA in signaling gateways
    • ISDN-Bricks with IUA in Media Gateway Controllers
    • SS7-Bricks with M2UA, M3UA or SUA in signaling gateways or softswitch
    • V5-Bricks with V5UA in V5 signaling gateways or controllers.