72% Of Telco Vendors Believe SS7 Is Still Alive And Kicking

Reading, UK - A survey by Adax Europe, an industry leader in
high performance signaling infrastructure, reveals that nearly three
quarters of telco vendors still believe that support for their SS7
infrastructure is essential to their long term business.

According to the survey of telecommunication vendors based
throughout Europe, despite operators migrating to IP networks at an
astonishing rate, 72 percent of those surveyed still hadn’t phased out
their SS7 infrastructure entirely and claimed that ongoing support was
vital to business.

A closer look into the views of European vendors revealed that 74
percent believed it was very important that their infrastructure was
compatible with both new and old technology. Operators are at different
stages in their IP migration paths and this figure demonstrates how
many vendors are still trying to squeeze as much as they can out of
their existing signaling networks and investments before committing to
the transition to an all IP infrastructure.

The survey also asked the question, what are the key product
features which vendors put above others when looking at their
telecommunications infrastructure? 67 percent explained that high
performance and high link density was their largest priority when
reviewing product features, followed by the number of trunks per board.

Robin Kent, Director, European Operations at Adax says, “The survey
showed us that although the telco world will eventually become
IP-networked this transition is not yet complete and many operators are
still looking to support their SS7 infrastructure. It is inevitable
that one day most telecommunication infrastructures will be based upon
IP systems but that is clearly still a way off. Until then operators
need to manage the transition as smoothly as possible and that is why
Adax continues to invest in both SS7 and SIGTRAN (SS7 over IP) product
developments”.

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About Adax Europe Limited
Adax Europe Limited specialises in signaling infrastructure for today’s
converging networks, covering all protocols and popular hardware
formats to provide the right solution for any signaling requirement.
Adax high performance products are available for PSTN, GPRS, 3G and IMS
networks.

Adax signaling solutions deliver the high performance, total
scalability, fast time to market and rapid return on investment that
are essential for telecom companies to stay ahead in a competitive and
ever changing industry. Solutions include signaling communications
controllers for SS7, ATM and IP; integrated signaling protocol stacks
and blades for SS7 and SIGTRAN; and multi-purpose signaling gateways
for SS7 and IP interworking.

Adax customers include some of the world’s premier telecom suppliers
such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Motorola; and value added service
(VAS) providers and system integrators such as Apertio, Bharti
Telesoft, and IP Access.