The following table list the features introduced in this release.
Feature | Feature ID | Feature Overview | Affected Documents |
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DSC SWe (on MA-RMS) Support | DSC-14388 | This feature adds new I/O hardware cards, which provides the following benefits:
The DSC SWe deployments typically consist of a set of network-connected virtual machines. The lack of hardware prevents the ability to interface with any legacy TDM-based SS7 equipment. With the Multi-Application Rack Mount Server (MA-RMS), I/O hardware can connect to the DSC SWe system by creating a pci-net interface on the host system. The host system can then be attached to a softswitch to communicate with virtual machines. The following is a high-level overview of the MA-RMS configuration for a host system:
The whole MA-RMS host system, which includes the PCI-NET drivers and PCE382 cards, is ordered from Ribbon Communications and installed by a Ribbon technician. Customers are only required to install the DSC SWe VMs as the Guest OS onto the MA-RMS system. Once the DSC SWe VM is set-up, the TDM PCE382 cards appear as network-attached I/O cards. On the Web UI, a user can click the Hardware tab for the PCE382 card to configure the following channels:
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New statistics Libraries for Memory Usage and Uptime | DSC-15938 | This feature adds and improves the operational and performance measurements for memory usage and uptime. To improve the measurements for the amount of memory used on a slot and the uptime for that slot, the following libraries were created:
An additional column was also to the System statistics called "Up time", which shows the amount of time the system has been up. The statistics are reported in the same manner as other statistics in CSV files: 5-minute, 30-minute, and daily collections. | |
Stats Library Supports Minimum and Maximum Values | DSC-16954 | This feature supports the minimum and maximum values for the CPU and Memory libraries. Previously, DSC only offered cumulative and average statistic values. With this feature, DSC statistics capabilities support additional properties for minimum and maximum values for selected statistics. These new values are supported in the CPU and MEMORY statistics, and are included in all their statistics collection files (5-minute, 30-minute, and daily collections). | |
Signaling Platform 2000 (SP2000) 3U and 13U with DSC OS | DSC-15936 | The purpose of this feature is to standardize the OS across all DSC and SP2000 platforms by generating a single, common OS install image, based on CentOS 7.Y. While the OS image itself is identical on all products, a minimal subset of differing functionality exists within the image, and is applied at the system initialization as needed on a product-specific basis. Product identification is accomplished by detecting the specific underlying hardware, which differs across the various DSC and SP2000 Platforms. The 3U/13U Signaling Platform 2000 (SP2000) kernel was refreshed with the DSC base application software 18.0.0. There are no hardware changes to the SP2000 or alterations to the applications. | Ribbon made the following changes to the Signaling Platform 2000 documentation in the 18.0.0 release:
The following table provides a content mapping between the documents available in the 3.6 and 3.7 release and the PDF document available in the 18.0.0 release. |