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by immibis 483 days ago
It's actually universal within a certain niche. I think phone networks are doing just about everything over SCTP internally. When SS7 links get replaced they get replaced with something that uses SCTP. Not sure of the details because I don't work there.

Related: there's a parallel Internet with a different root of number allocation called GRX/IPX (GPRS Roaming Exchange/Internetwork Packet Exchange)