SS 7 can communicate great amounts of information during the call, which allows development of various call-related services. Call forwarding, call waiting, voice mail, number display, malicious caller ID, and call screening are some of these services.
http://www.tech-faq.com/ss7.html and if you have access to this out of band data stream, you have it too
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