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April 22, 2015

Patton's SS7 Gateways to Provide ATM Poland With Carrier-Class Business Voice Services


By Michael Guta
TMCnet Contributing Writer

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Telecom operators need the ability to deliver a wide range of services in order to compete with new providers offering innovative solutions at better price points. The integration of mobile and cloud technology is making it possible for these new companies to deliver services that allows users to communicate and work on their device from virtually anywhere. With so many options available for consumers and businesses, telecoms have been forced to make the same options available as they try to salvage many of the customers they have lost. One of Poland’s operators, ATM S.A. has installed Patton’s (News - Alert) SS7 gateways in order to have the capacity for delivering new carrier-class business voice services to existing and prospective customers.


Signaling System No. 7 (SS7/C7) is a key enabler of telecommunication services employed globally across telecommunications networks to provide signaling. As a signaling protocol, it has elements to exchange control information in the network with value-added services such as messaging, texting, and payments. 

The Patton SN10300 SS7 gateway is a flexible platform that provides a variety of business communications services which will let the Polish operator use its integrated network to start providing ISDN telephony, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), SIP trunking and Unified Communications (News - Alert) (UC) as well as new services in the future.

According to Patton, ATM has launched the SN10300 VoIP+TDM gateways for its ATMAN ISDN and ATMAN VoIP services, which it will be offering to businesses under the ATMAN brand. This will give the company a platform with flexible N+1 redundancy options with a network architecture that has no single point of failure.

The big differentiator in the past for consumer and business adoption for IP telephony has been reliability, but the SN10300 solves this problem while eliminating the costly Media Gateway (News - Alert) Controller (MGC) requirements with support for SS7, ISDN and SIP signaling in a single device. It lowers operation and maintenance costs as well as capital equipment expense with a simplified network architecture.

“Reliable, high-availability infrastructure is essential for independent network operators,” said Marcin Adamczyk, ATM’s Chief of Voice Services. “Patton’s SN10300 N+1 back-up solution offers ideal configuration options for our stringent up-time requirements.”

Key features of the Patton SN10300 include:

  • Support over 3,900 concurrent VoIP calls, delivering up to 750 Call Completions per Second (CCPS).
  • Signaling and control protocols for the media gateway provides support for the concurrent use of ISDN, SS7/C7, CAS (R2), SIP, and SIGTRAN signaling in the same device.
  • Support for various wireline, mobile and IP telephony audio formats, delivering seamless transcoding in real-time. The media gateways support G.711, G723.1, G.726, and G.729ab right out of the box, with no additional license fee required as well as optional support for mobile and IP vocoders.
  • Internet-based fax, also known as Fax over IP or Fax relay, using the T.38 protocol, which is used to carry fax communications over an IP network. (They also support the T.30 protocol for fax over the PSTN.)
  • Offers an operations, administration, maintenance, provisioning (OAM&P) solution for reliable uptime and availability.
  • Application for large enterprises by increasing TDM/digital port density Media Gateway going from 512 up to 32,768 VoIP calls, making it a key element for business trunking, call center, and transcoding solutions for the enterprise.

Telecom operators are looking for new solutions that will allow them to build out their network footprint cost-effectively in order to provide innovative services to their customers. The SmartNode 10300 Series media gateway makes this possible by bridging voice traffic between the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and IP networks such as the Internet to deliver VoIP services. This gives operators such as Poland’s ATM S.A. the tools to compete with small and large companies by delivering innovative, affordable and reliable services.




Edited by Dominick Sorrentino
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