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In our example, Adam is served out of a different switch than Cristina, so the call must be routed to a different central office Before that routing can take place, however, Cristina s local switch routes a query to the signaling network, known as Signaling System 7 (SS7) SS7 provides the network with intelligence It is responsible for setting up, maintaining, and tearing down a call, while at the same time providing access to enhanced services such as Custom Local Area Signaling Services (CLASS), 800 Number Portability, Local Number Portability (LNP), Line Information Database (LIDB) lookups for credit card verification, and other enhanced features In a sense, it makes the local switch s job easier by centralizing many of the functions that formerly had to be performed locally.

4. Great companies with great growth potential, tremendous marketing power, brand names, and in-place benefits (e.g., Intel, Microsoft, Coca Cola and Disney) a 10-year excess return period. We do not believe in going out more than 10 years with an excess return period. Some fundamental stock valuation models, like the dividend discount model, incorporate earnings and dividend growth in excess of the company s WACC, out to an infinite time period. Cash flows in these models are discounted until the hereafter. We think that 10 years is a reasonable amount of time to incorporate the product cycles of today s markets. Does a corporation really lose its competitive advantage and the benefit of its excess return period For well-managed corporations, the answer is probably no. Most well-run companies will continue to innovate, reduce operating costs, increase efficiency, create new business strategies, and maintain their competitive advantage for a long time. Some will go bankrupt. Some will be acquired or merge. But the concept of an excess return period or forecast period is one that should result in a more conservative, less aggressive stock valuation. When we invest, we would rather err on the side of conservatism than overpay for a stock.

The original concept behind SS7 was to separate the actual calls on the public telephone network from the process of setting up and tearing down those calls as a way to make the network more efficient This had the effect of moving the intelligence out of the PSTN and into a separate network, where it could be somewhat centralized and therefore made available to a much broader population The SS7 network, shown in Figure 3-11, consists of packet switches (signal transfer points, or STPs) and intelligent database engines (service control points, or SCPs) interconnected to each other and to the actual telephone company switches (service switching points, or SSPs) via digital links, typically operating at 56 to 64 Kbps When a customer in an SS7 environment places a call, the following process takes place.

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The local switching infrastructure issues a software interrupt via the SSP so that the called and calling party information can be handed off to the SS7 network, specifically an STP The STP, in turn, routes the information to an associated SCP, which performs a database lookup to determine whether any special call handling instruc-.

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In calculating corporate or enterprise value, the FCFF approach and the spreadsheet software divides corporate assets and liabilities and discounts cash flows into three categories and time periods: Cash Flow from Operations. First, during the excess return period, we calculate free cash flow to the firm. This is the difference between operating cash inflows and cash outflows. The free cash flows are then discounted. The discount factors are a function of the firm s WACC and the timing of the expected cash flows. Corporate Residual Value. Second, we find the corporation s residual value. This is the value calculated by taking the company s NOPAT at the end of the excess return period, dividing it by the company s WACC, and discounting it (also at the WACC) to today s value. At the end of the excess return period, we assume that the corporation is just receiving a return on investment equal to its WACC. Therefore, the net

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