Signaling network operations system (SIGNOS) in Korea

Abstract

The paper describes an operations system newly

designed to establish the network management and

provisioning functions for CCS(Common Channel

Signaling) network being currently deployed in Korea.

The SIGNOS, which is a sort of centralized systcm to

accommodate a number of SMX-ls(Signa1ing Message

Exchange), so called STP, consistently monitors and

maintains CCS network in the network wide point of

view to assure efficient utilization of the network. The

key issue here in this paper is to introduce the system

architecture and functions of SIGNOS and to present

an example of interface between an operations systcm

and network elements. In order to resolve the intcrfacc

between SMX-1 and SIGNOS we apply a part of SMX-

1 itself to the front-end of SIGNOS, anticipating that

No.7 protocol will be suitable for signaling network

management in the future.