To keep pace with the evolution of SS7 (Signaling System 7)for fast, efficient signaling, GL Communications has enhanced its SS7 networkmonitoring and diagnostic system. In addition to billing ...

Increasingly, cellular carriers and service providers are using IP networks to transport and route Signaling System 7 (SS7) traffic. The SS7 protocol boasts a mechanism for offloading the traditional ...

The SS7 network has three basic elements: the service switching point (SSP), the signal transfer point (STP), and the service control point (SCP). SSPs are switches that originate, terminate, or ...

This time we’d like to make some comparisons between the security of the PSTN and the security of data networks. Data networks, like the PSTN, require physical protection on some levels. Data networks ...

Bad actors are exploiting an obscure technology found in telecommunications networks around the world to track mobile users and engage in fraud, and they could be costing carriers millions of dollars ...

Financially bullish communications carriers are starting to migrate existing circuitswitched, time-division-multiplexing (TDM) networks to Internet Protocol (IP) packet networks and roll out new VoIP, ...

The company's new SIP-7 (Session Initiation Protocol 7) Services allow SIP providers to connect to Verisign's SS7 network. By offloading the complexity of interworking with the SS7 system, VoIP ...

The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around ...