Overview of Aculab Signalling software
Aculab is the one of the innovative market leading companies providing solutions to various industries such as Telecom , Finance , Health care , Cloud computing and more with products and services such as Communication as a service software , Media gateways , Media processing and signalling software. Its SS7 Signalling product supports Support for signalling system number 7 (SS7), includes: SIGTRAN M3UA; SCTP; many national and international variants of ISUP; SCCP; TCAP; and MTP2/3
How to install Aculab for TCAP on a Linux platform
Aculab signalling stack software may be downloaded online from the download section page of Aculab. Modules may be installed using the Aculab Installer Tool (AIT). Installation procedure is available in SS7_installation_administration_guide.pdf . Below are the steps involved -
• Creation of a linux user aculab
# adduser aculab
# passwd aculab (set password for aculab user)
• Creation of installation folder for aculab software and permissions for aculab user
# mkdir – p /opt/aculab
# mkdir – p /opt/install
# chown -R aculab.aculab /opt/aculab (create ownership for the created folder)
• Copying the installer file to the installation folder
Download the installer file AIT_x.x.tar.gz and untar the file under the installer directory
# cd /opt/install
# tar -zxvf AIT_x.x.tar.gz
# cd /opt/install/.local/share/AIT
# ./AIT_GUI (in menu options change default installation path to /opt/aculab)
Select the option to open a package. Select package Aculab which will load the list of all packages to be installed. Click on the Install option. Once all the packages are installed a message “Installation Successful” is displayed.
# cd /opt/aculab/
# . setV6.sh ( export the environment variable )
Now change directory to /opt/aculab/driver
# cd driver
Now issue the following command
# ./dacpinst build
Depending on the installation requirement choose appropriate options for below . For TCAP applications below may be chosen
Do you want to have Prosody S support? (y/n)? [Y]:n
Would you like to have Prosody X card support? (y/n)? [Y]: y
Would you like to have ss7 driver support (y/n)? [Y]: y
Post completion of above steps , if licence is available same may be installed . Else an evaluation licence may be requested from Aculab website on below link . Usually evaluation licence for TCAP over SIGTRAN provides 100 TPS for a 45 days period.
https://www.aculab.com/downloads/evaluation-licence-request/