New Delhi, India and Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Hughes Software Systems (HSS) today announced a partnership with MontaVista Software, whereby the HSS Wireless GPRS/3G, Voice over Packet (VoP), and SS7 protocol stacks will be ported and validated for MontaVista's Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE).

HSS' high-performance, high-availability, interoperable, and versatile protocol stack software enhances next-generation and traditional communications networks with Voice over Packet and high-speed mobile data capability. HSS offers a range of protocol stacks, including SIP, H.323, H.248, MGCP, MEGACO etc. for enabling Voice over Packet network solutions, and B-SS7, ISDN, GPRS, UMTS, MAP, CAP, GTP, Gb and RANAP for 3G / 2.5G mobile networks, as well as other standards-based communications protocol stacks.

HSS provides the following protocol stacks on Linux . . .

• VoIP — H.248, H.323, IUA, MGCP, M2PA, M2UA, M3UA, MicroSIP, SCTP, SIP, SUA
• Wireless — BSSAP+, CAP, CC, FP, Gb (BSSGP, LLC, NS, SNDCP), GMM/SM, GSMS, GTP-C/U, GTP, INAP, Iu-CS, Iu-PS, Iub, Iur, LLC, MAP, MM, NBAP, PDCP, RABM, RLC/MAC, RNSAP, RRC, SNDCP, SS, USIL, Uu
• SS7 — ISUP, B-ISUP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3-B, D-MTP3, SCCP, D-SCCP, TCAP
• Broadband — ALCAP, IPoA, SSCF-NNI, SSCF-UNI, SSCOP, STC
• Others — ISDN

All HSS protocol stacks are available in portable source code or binary form on a variety of hardware platforms, along with API documents and user manuals. All HSS products are provided with warranty, upgrades and worldwide support. HSS SS7 and SIGTRAN protocol suites have been already made available to clients on MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1.

MontaVista Linux CGE provides the scalability, dependability, and functionality required by telecommunications and data communications applications such as soft switches, BSC/RNC (base station controllers/radio network controllers), media gateways, control plane applications in core/edge, media servers, and core switches. Carrier Grade Edition provides essential high availability features including CompactPCI hot swap drivers, redundant Ethernet and RAID1. It also delivers a hardened driver architecture, resource monitoring and fault management services, and other carrier-grade capabilities.

 
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