Ask telecom entrepreneurs what they're working on these days and the term "SS7" comes up. Signaling System 7, the protocol for setting up and tearing down calls on the public switched telephone network, has been in place for nearly 30 years, and start-up companies today are looking for the SS7 of the future - the "next-gen SS7," "SS7 on steroids" - that will do for a telecom network of clouds, servers and packet-based sessions what SS7 did for the circuit-switched network.
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