Advanced Intelligent Network service maintenance and testing strategy

Author

Moharram, Omayma E. ; Coombs, Donald

Author_Institution

BNR, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1994

fDate

27 Sep-1 Oct 1994

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

319

Abstract

This paper discusses the service maintenance and testing strategy for the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN). It proposes a suite of switch testing capabilities that include capabilities local to service switch point (SSP), capabilities for SSP and service control point (SCP) interactions, and capabilities for SSP and the signalling system number 7 (SS7) network interactions. The AIN SSP should support these capabilities to allow complete intra-SSP (local to SSP) and end-to-end network fault verification and sectionalization. The capabilities proposed in this paper form the nucleus of the network testing and service maintenance for intelligent networks. These capabilities enable the tester to identify and isolate the troubles and faults in the network to maintain service and resource integrity

Keywords

fault diagnosis; intelligent networks; maintenance engineering; telecommunication equipment testing; telecommunication signalling; Advanced Intelligent Network service maintenance; SS7; end-to-end network fault verification; intelligent networks; intra-SSP; network interactions; network testing; resource integrity; sectionalization; service control point; service switch point; signalling system number 7; switch testing capabilities; testing strategy; Communication system signaling; Control systems; Fault diagnosis; ISDN; Intelligent networks; Routing; Software testing; Switches; System testing; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications, 1994. Record., 1994 Third Annual International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1823-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1994.383145

Filename

383145