/protocols/ss7/m3ua/api/src/main/java/org/mobicents/protocols/ss7/m3ua/parameter/NetworkAppearance.java
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1/* 2 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source 3 * Copyright 2011, Red Hat, Inc. and individual contributors 4 * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a 5 * full listing of individual contributors. 6 * 7 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 8 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 9 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 10 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 18 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 19 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 20 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 21 */ 22 23package org.mobicents.protocols.ss7.m3ua.parameter; 24 25/** 26 * <p> 27 * The network appearance is a number assigned by the signaling gateway and the 28 * ASP that, when used along with the signaling point code, uniquely identifies 29 * an SS7 node in the SS7 domain. 30 * </p> 31 * <p> 32 * This is used when a signaling gateway is connected to multiple networks, and 33 * those networks are in different countries, for example. When this occurs, the 34 * SS7 point codes that are assigned could be duplicated. For example, if the 35 * node has an appearance in France and also in the United Kingdom, the point 36 * code advertised in those two networks could be duplicated because national 37 * point codes are of local significance only. 38 * </p> 39 * 40 * @author amit bhayani 41 * @author kulikov 42 */ 43public interface NetworkAppearance extends Parameter { 44 45 /** 46 * A value in the range 1 to 4294967295 to be used in the Network Appearance 47 * 48 * @return 49 */ 50 public long getNetApp(); 51 52}