The SEGway™ Product Family

• Used to reliably transport, concentrate and route SS7 over IP
• IP transport is up to 70 percent cheaper than traditional SS7 networks
• Leverages under utilized IP bandwidth for SS7
• Utilizes standards-based protocols to ensure carrier-grade reliability (SIGTRAN)

Performance Technologies' award-winning SEGway signaling products cost-effectively and reliably transport and route circuit-switched or IP-based SS7 traffic between IP and PSTN networks around the world.

The growth in wireline AIN services, wireless networks and IP-based solutions such as SMS text messaging is putting pressure on network managers to find forward-looking solutions that meet today's SS7 traffic requirements. A SEGway solution can help reduce or eliminate costly STP access and port charges, save on long haul charges for standard dedicated SS7 circuits and transition a carrier to effectively deploy an all-IP architecture.

SEGway products utilize the Internet Engineering Task Force Signaling Transport (IETF SIGTRAN) group's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) to ensure that SS7 messages are transported and routed as efficiently and reliably over IP networks as they are over the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN). All SEGway systems can be customized to allow for seamless interoperability across networks worldwide.

The SEGway product family includes:

• SS7 over IP Transport Solutions
• STPs
• Signaling Gateways