TMR Data Sheet

Deploy premium services quickly, independent of existing network infrastructure.

The Sevis TMR provides application developers with enabling technology for building and deploying premium services quickly and easily.  It enables operators to add new services without significant additional investment.  With TMR’s transparent—no point code—access to the signaling network and its rich APIs, applications can be deployed without any network re-engineering, independent of existing network infrastructure.  Using innovative technology, TMR provides selective access to the SS7/C7 message stream routing only messages of interest to the application.  As a standards-based, carrier-grade SS7/C7 network node without a point code and a rich set of APIs, the TMR is the perfect development environment for building and deploying fixed and mobile applications.

The TMR provides host application platforms with easy-to-integrate SS7/C7 connectivity.  TMR uses a multilayer routing engine to intelligently route signaling messages to application platforms.  By utilizing lower level and application level information in a message, TMR selectively routes only messages required by the application.  These messages are routed via TMR’s open APIs over IP to the application for further analysis and processing.  The APIs provide access at two levels of the SS7/C7 stack.  An MTP interface provides access to MTP3 and above while the TCAP interface provides access to the MAP portion of a message. This architecture allows developers to focus on their applications saving time and getting to revenue quicker.  

TMR provides simplified signaling network access while operating as a standards-based SS7/C7 network node. TMR overcomes traditional barriers to SS7/C7 network deployment with its transparency—it does not require a point code.  Applications can be deployed quickly because TMR does not require re-provisioning of other network nodes. It can be deployed on existing SS7/C7 links providing a direct, transparent signaling interface to all signaling traffic.  This enables carriers to turn up new, premium services quickly and cost-effectively.    

The TMR APIs are designed for rapid, cost-effective application development and are fully documented. TMR includes a software developer’s kit (SDK) that provides all the tools necessary for application development and deployment via TMR. Traffic insertion tools, test tools, example messages, and a reference application provide everything needed to start immediately. TMR supports an SDK configuration for setting up a complete test environment to simulate SS7/C7 traffic routed via the APIs over IP between TMR and an application platform.

TMR is based on Sevis’s Signaling ASE® Platform, a standards-based, carrier-grade SS7/C7 network node.  It  does not require a point code which eliminates network re-engineering and allows for rapid system deployment across 2G or 3G networks as well as fixed networks. Scalability is achieved by clustering additional platforms together, made easy by the platform’s transparency. The platform’s fault-handling architecture does not impact SS7/C7 link integrity and always allows messages to flow regardless of platform status.