NMS MTP 3 components

A typical NMS MTP 3 implementation consists of TX board and host processor components. The TX board components include the:

The host processor components include:

MTP data and management functions pass messages between the application and the MTP task on the TX board, transferring data, controlling flow and communications in the SS7 network, and obtaining status and statistical information. The functions simplify data and management operations and perform the byte ordering translation, where necessary, between application processor (Intel or little endian) byte order and network (big endian) byte order.

The following illustration shows NMS SS7 architecture: