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Baku to host meeting of Inter-working Roaming Expert Group

23 September 2008 14:47 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ilhama Isabalayeva - APA-Economics. The GSM Association will hold the 55th meeting of Inter-working Roaming Expert Group (IREG) in Baku on October 27-30 on the initiative of Azercell Telecom, the leading mobile operator of Azerbaijan.
Halim Ates, CEO of Azercell Telecom, said the meeting will gather together more than 120 experts from over 50 countries.
According to him, a number of issues, including attempts threatening security and protection against frauds in the SS7 networks, capabilities of Electronic exchange of Roaming Database, management of options of roaming and 3GPP network, NGMN-CSMA cooperation agreement, renewal of IP Interworking Mobile Alliance and SS7 network planning will be discussed at the meeting.
SS7 (Signaling System #7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols which are used to set up most of the worldâ€™s public switched telephone network telephone calls.
IREG specifies technical, operational and performance issues supporting inter-working and roaming in close liaison with the operator community. IREG is responsible for the GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and its evolution, the IP packet Exchange (IPX) architecture and delivery of Open Connectivity initiatives such as electronic exchange of roaming data, SMS and roaming hubbing. IREG studies the compatibility and interoperability perspectives of the signalling (SS7/MAP) and interworking of roaming issues between voice and packet data networks including PLMNs (Public Land Mobile Networks), PSTNs (Public Switched Telephone Networks), IN/Camel
(Intelligent Networks), ISDNs (Integrated Services Digital Networks), NGNs (Next Generation Networks) and IP/Packet Data Networks, to define the end-to-end functional tests of bearer services, teleservices, supplementary services and IP services such asMMS, GPRS, IMS, IM, WLAN, ENUM, Sigtran,C7 emulation, etc
The last IREG meeting was held in Prague. Baku will be the first in this region to host this meeting.