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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Serge F. Fourcand, Fairview, TX (US);
Gerry R. Dubois, Lucas, TX (US);
Gary D. Hanson, Plano, TX (US);
Dwight W. Doss, Richardson, TX (US);
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A telecommunications network environment ( ) includes a signaling server ( ) accessible by maintenance interfaces ( ) and network interfaces ( ). The signaling server ( ) includes a signaling link controller ( ) that receives and processes signaling information received from network elements and other signaling servers. The signaling link controller ( ) extracts a data portion of the signaling information for message transfer part level two processing. For additional processing, the data portion of the signaling information may be routed over an Ethernet switch ( ) to another signaling link controller ( ) or to a signaling services controller ( ) for signaling connection control part processing. The signaling services control element ( ) may perform local number portability lookup and global title translation on the received data portion. After processing, the signaling link controller ( ) generates a return message in response to the signaling information.