Basic SS7 & SS7 Products Knowledge Portals

I hope you have gone through my earlier post. I would soon start a website www.ss7guru.com and a google group dialogicss7. Just to share my objective for the same. I want to help new professionals in SS7 domains by sharing as much information about my experiences and helpful resources/links.

I must share that you would be disappointed to not get much about Hidden Telecom worls & specifications on Google. Searches would bring you to Product pages of SS7 Products family companies. You should know exact sites/resources at which you can find concise information which you are looking forward to. Following are the reasons why google fails to provide desired results on specialized technology :

1. Google don't index websites which are behind username/password authorization. You can find more information about SS7 & Telecom in Protected Discussion Groups/Forums/Whitepapers/File Sharing sites. Although membership to most of these sites is free, but google can't index these as these are dynamic pages behind authorization walls.

2. Off late, SS7 companies have put good efforts on SEO techniques and Search Engine Maketing. They take away almost first two pages of google search for various SS7 terms. So you don't ever get chance to reach actual knowlede share portals but SS7 products sales portal. I hope this page/blog also don't get lost in the same :-)

Following are further resources at which you can find SS7 Products, Case studies & Knowledge Share docs :

1. www.freepatentsonline.com
Access to Patents has been given to public just few months ago. It is the most relevant & techical resources to clear your understanding on various GSM/SS7 products. You would find details (along with call flows) about every Roaming/IN/SS7 based product here. It is because most of these SS7 products have some patent associated with it(Either Filled by or Allocated to any Company/Individual). Registeration to this site is free and you can see figures/diagrams of any patent only after login.

2. www.esnips.com
Many Volunters have uploaded Filtered SS7 docs on esnips. When i say "Filtered", it means most of these have been uploaded for public by Domain Professions(Perhaps with the same objective which i have). So these can be assumed to be expert information available for SS7. Following are few links from esnips which i would recommend for SS7 documentations(even free SS7 ebooks would be available):

http://www.esnips.com/web/muhammadrustam-Telecommunications
http://www.esnips.com/web/SS7Stuff
http://www.esnips.com/web/imalayas-references
http://www.esnips.com/web/WirelessTechnologies
http://www.esnips.com/web/hassanaadil-GSM

I would also soon starting my own folder here for knowledge share at following URL:

http://www.esnips.com/web/ss7guru

So keep revisiting :-)

I shall continue sharing more on SS7 resources in next post. Will be looking forward to your comments !!