Trillium | Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP)
Description
The Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) portable software product provides the functions and procedures for an application at one node in the signaling network to invoke the execution of an application at another node in the signaling network and exchange the results of such an invocation. The TCAP software resides on network elements such as switches, adjunct processors, service platforms and test equipment.
Trillium TCAP software enables telecom equipment manufacturers of soft switches, signaling gateways, signal transfer points, service control points, media gateway controllers or other products to:
- Accelerate time to market
- Reduce development costs
- Reduce project risk of internally developed TCAP applications
The TCAP software provides the capabilities to associate operations and replies, and detect and recover from abnormal situations. ITU-T, ETSI, ANSI and TTC (Japan) variants of the protocol are supported. Product deliverables consist of C source software, documentation, training, a warranty and technical support.
Features + Benefits
- Supports the Fault Tolerant/High Availability (FT/HA) solution when combined with Trillium PSF - TCAP (FT/HA) software.
- Supports the Distributed Fault-Tolerant/High Availability (DFT/HA) solution when combined with Trillium PSF - TCAP (FT/HA) and LDF - TCAP software.
- Supports SCCP User Adaptation Layer (SUA) which transfers SCCP-user signaling messages for both connection-oriented and connection-less classes of services to an IP network.
- Provides transaction and component sub-layer functionality.
- Supports unstructured and structured dialogue.
- Supports unstructured dialogue facilities including sending one or more components that do not expect replies.
- Supports structured dialogue facilities including transaction begin, transaction continuation, transaction end, transaction abort, exception reporting, query with permission, query without permission, conversation with permission, conversation without permission and response.
- Supports all classes of service including class 1 (both success and failure reported), class 2 (only failure is reported), class 3 (only success is reported) and class 4 (neither success nor failure is reported). Unstructured dialogues use class 4 service.
- Provides all statistics for traffic engineering and network management in compliance with Q.752.
- Supports multiple variants including ITU 1988, 1992, and 1996; ANSI 1988, 1992, and 1996; ETSI 1996; and TTC (Japan).
- Uses connectionless services of SCCP.
- Conforms to Trillium Advanced Portability Architecture (TAPA)
- Benefits of licensing Trillium software from Continuous Computing
Product Interworking
Can be used with Trillium Distributed Fault-Tolerant/High-Availability (DFT/HA) Core, Fault-Tolerant/High-Availability (FT/HA) Core, MAP - GSM, MAP - IS41, INAP, SCCP, SCCP User Adaptation Layer (SUA), PSF - TCAP (FT/HA), LDF - TCAP, TCAP Over TCP/IP and Multi-threaded System Services (MTSS) software products.
Professional Services
Continuous Computing also offers Professional Services to integrate Trillium software into customers' products.
Conformance
Trillium TCAP software conforms to the following standards:
- ETSI, ETS 300 287-1
- ITU-T, Q.701, Q.752, Q.771-Q.775, Q.787
- ANSI, T1.114
- TTC (Japan), JT Q.771- JT Q.774
Refer to the TCAP Functional Specification for detailed implementation information.
