Dakota Carrier Network, a consortium of rural telcos in North Dakota, has chosen Tekno Telecom for their network monitoring, surveillance and CDR generation.
DCN will be using Tekno’s NetAnalyzer and NetAlert, part of the overall NetQuest system, which non-intrusively alarms and reports on all SS7 links, and provides SS7, ISUP and TCAP call and transaction detail records.
“After an extensive competitive analysis and much deliberation, we decided to deploy Tekno’s NetAnalyzer and NetAlert for our network monitoring and CDR generation because it will do everything required in the day-to-day operation for monitoring, maintenance and reporting perspectives of running a statewide SS7 network,” said Jody Sommer, network technician for DCN. “Call tracing across all of our links and member links will assist in trouble isolation, performance and statistical analysis. Easy-to-read protocol analysis and SS7 call and transactional correlation provides us with the details to investigate and resolve pretty much any SS7 issue that may arise. User-friendliness, along with the performance of Tekno’s NetQuest system, is going to provide DCN’s operations with an easy-to-use GUI and filtration capabilities for investigating and reporting on any ISUP and TCAP component that transits across DCN’s network and the entire state of North Dakota.”
Don Pedersen, operations manager for DCN, added: “Alarming on the links with Tekno’s NetAlert application is going to enhance our reporting capability and is going to provide a quicker trouble isolation response for DCN’s operational staff that will ultimately provide our members with a more robust SS7 network inter-connection for their local, long distance and TCAP-based services.”
“Over the last few years, DCN (being a member-owned company) has been enhancing their SS7 network with new switching equipment and felt that performance monitoring, reporting and the collection of SS7 traffic was an essential element of their offering to the member companies,” said Sam Galler, vice president of sales and marketing for Tekno Telecom. “With the accuracy and correlation capabilities of the Tekno system, DCN will now have the ability to non-intrusively generate ISUP and TCAP call detail records (CDRs) and transactional detail records (TDRs) that can also be shared with their member companies, if required for CABS verification, and internal audits, etc., from an SS7 perspective.”
DCN was created in 1996 by 15 independent rural telecommunications companies representing 85 percent of all the telephone exchanges in North Dakota and over 90 percent of the state's total surface area. DCN member companies currently serve over 164,000 customers in 244 communities with the most advanced hardware and software. DCN and its member companies have over 10,000 miles of fiber optic cable installed across North Dakota.
