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OpenSS7 Goes North -- OpenSS7 has opened new offices in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. This is part of a move towards containing costs for continuing the project as well as expanding our International presence. OpenSS7 has also moved to establish a presence in Vancouver BC, Ottawa ON and Toronto ON.

Linux Native Kernel SCTP Coming -- After considerable effort in the earlier part of the year, OpenSS7 has completed much work on a new release of the Linux Native SCTP implementation. This implementation is based on the Linux 2.4 kernel (it is a patch against kernel 2.4.18) and provides many features not present in our previous linux 2.2.16 version. This version of the implementation is quite stable and was based on our STREAMS implementation. It is undergoing rigorous testing.

OpenSS7 SS7 Stack Release -- OpenSS7 announces release of the STREAMS version of the SS7, SCTP and SIGTRAN stacks which runs on LiS 2.13.17/Linux 2.4.x. All future releases will be based on the Linux 2.4.x kernels. This release has been tested 2.4.7 thru 2.4.18 and has been shown to run on SMP machines. This release also provides a TCP/IP STREAMS stack based on the socksys iABI which provides IP, UDP and TCP streams.

Visit our download area to get a copy of the release. What makes this release special is that it is the first all Linux 2.4.x release of the OpenSS7 stack.

OpenSS7 SCTP Release -- OpenSS7 announces release of the Second Beta version of a STREAMS version of RFC 2960 SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) stack for LiS STREAMS which is compatible with the TPI (Transport Provider Interface) and XOpen XTI/XNS 5.2. The Beta release also provides an NPI (Network Provider Interface) which is being used by our M2PA, M2UA, M3UA and SUA implementations for use with the OpenSS7 STREAMS SS7 stack.

Visit our download area to get a copy of the release. What makes this release special is that it is the first package which we have ported forward to LiS 2.13.17 and Linux 2.4.x SMP.

New OpenSS7 Website -- The OpenSS7 Project has a new site. We hope that things are a little better organized than the old site. If you need to refer to anything from the old site, you can find it here.

OpenSS7 SS7 Driver Support -- OpenSS7 announces driver support for the Linux Support, Inc. T400P-SS7 and E400P-SS7 cards. OpenSS7 will be releasing GPL'ed drivers for these cards shortly.

2nd M3UA Plugtest -- OpenSS7 announces the intention to attend the 2nd M3UA Plugtest at ETSI in Sophia Antipolis France. OpenSS7 attended the 1st M3UA Interop at Ericsson in Madrid, Spain last year, as well. OpenSS7 will soon announce the release of M2UA, M3UA, SUA and TUA SIGTRAN software uner GNU Public License Version 2.

OpenSS7 M2PA Release -- OpenSS7 announces release of the Alpha version of a STREAMS version of <draft-ietf-sigtran-m2pa-04.txt> SS7 MTP2-User Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (M2PA) on the OpenSS7 STREAMS SCTP stack released in November. The M2PA implementation has been rigorously tested and passes 73 applicable modified Q.781 conformance tests. Also included is a test case description document <draft-bidulock-sigtran-m2patest-00.txt> that describes each of the 107 modified Q.781 test cases in detail.

Visit our download area to get a copy of the release. This is a version of the code which we took to the 1st M2PA Interoperability Test at Alcatel in Plano, Texas (Oct 29 - Nov 1st).

OpenSS7 SCTP Release -- OpenSS7 announces release of the Beta version of a STREAMS version of RFC 2960 SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) stack for LiS STREAMS which is compatible with the TPI (Transport Provider Interface) and XOpen XTI/XNS 5.2. The Beta release also provides an NPI (Network Provider Interface) which is being used by our M2PA, M2UA, M3UA and SUA implementations for use with the OpenSS7 STREAMS SS7 stack.

Visit our download area to get a copy of the release. This is the version of the code which we took to the 1st M2PA Interoperability Test at Alcatel in Plano, Texas (Oct 29 - Nov 1st).

1st M2PA Interoperability Test -- OpenSS7 finished up our attendance and testing at the 1st M2PA Interoperability Test Oct 29 - Nov 1st. We will be releasing the M2PA code that we took to the interop shortly.

SCTP Performance Results -- We have finally added results of testing graciously performed by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory on the performance of the OpenSS7 Linux Kernel Native SCTP stack. Performance results look pretty good (but have a mysterious double bump). You can find them here.

OpenSS7 STREAMS SCTP Update -- OpenSS7 is pleased to announce that it will soon be releasing a STREAMS version of the RFC 2960 SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) stack for LiS STREAMS which will be compatible with the TPI (Transport Provider Interface) and XPG4-1 XTI. This version of SCTP will be the foundation for our SUA, M3UA, M2UA, and M2PA implementation for use with the OpenSS7 STREAMS SS7 stack.

OpenSS7 Linux Kernel SCTP Release -- OpenSS7 is proud to announce release a working version a Linux Kernel native implementation of RFC 2950 SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) for the Linux 2.2.12 kernel. The release provides a patch for the RedHat 2.2.12-20 kernel which provides support for SCTP sockets.

Visit our download area to get a copy of the release. This is the version of the code which we took to the 3rd SCTP Bakeoff at ETSI in Sophia Antipolis April 20-27th.

1st M3UA Bakeoff -- OpenSS7 finished up our attendance at the 1st M3UA Bakeoff at Siemens in Madris, Spain March 7-12th.

2nd SCTP Bakeoff -- OpenSS7 finished up out attendance and testing at the 3rd SCTP Bakeoff at ETSI in Sophia April 20-27th. We were quite successful at completing our testing of the Linux Native Kernel version of our SCTP implementation and demonstrated interoperability with a good number of other vendor implementations. We will be releasing the SCTP code under Linux Kernel GPL shortly.