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72% of Telco Vendors believe SS7 is alive & kicking
02/05/08
A survey by
Adax Europe 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% said 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".
Nick Gibson, editor
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