<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Mehdi Shirazi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mahdi_shirazi@yahoo.com">mahdi_shirazi@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>Are you describing the combined linkset? When I've seen things like this
>in ITU networks, A was primary and B was alternate (used when A was not
>available), instead of the ANSI model where A and B are peers and normally
>used equally using a 5 bit SLS.<br><br></div>Hi <br>you can use one of SLS 4Bits for loadsharing between 2 Linksets to 2 STPs(you still can have 2x8 signaling links)<br>if a ITU network needs 4 STPs they can use 2 bits for Linkset loadsharing or in every LX divide trunkgroups to two parts and for one part set STP1,2=>priority=1 STP3,4=priority=2 <br>
and other part vice versa.</pre></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I stand corrected. My experience got in the way of fact. Q.704 Section 2.3 certainly allows combined linksets. In ss7box the same code is used for ITU and ANSI, so combined linksets should work, but in over ten years it's never been required to run an ITU combined linkset.</div>
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