I’ve been hearing something from the field that doesn’t quite sit right. I’ve been hearing that developers of 3G voice protocol SS7 can easily segue into developing good solutions using 4G Diameter protocol such as real-time intelligent routers and reliable load balancing solutions.
Diameter was selected by the industry standards bodies such as 3GPP to be the one protocol that replaces all legacy protocols (MAP, LDAP, Radius, and others) because of its extreme flexibility to support data, services, and applications.
On the flip side, that side flexibility does cause management difficulties. Software engineers who work with Diameter find that after years of intense programming, they can succeed in creating cutting-edge solutions. They understand why Diameter is the chosen protocol to support all the data dominated services and applications of 4G. They know how to configure the code to ensure a 4G network’s reliability to send the right message to the right location 100% of the time. They can design intelligent routing and load balancing solutions to give the network unlimited scalability and 100% reliability.
However, this expertise took some years to perfect and a dedicated team focusing solely on the Diameter protocol and here’s the secret. It took the experience of deploying the Diameter protocol stack in operators around the world to learn the deep secrets and tricks of the trade of working with Diameter. And that is why today, Traffix is the only company that can call themselves true experts in the field of Diameter. That is why there is still is no other vendor offering a full Diameter solution of routing, load balancing and gateway solutions with the added value that Traffix Service Delivery Controller (SDC) offers.
I would say that for others to claim, “we know signaling” based on past experience with SS7 or other legacy protocol is equivalent to a heart surgeon leading a team to operate on a brain without the back up of a brain surgeon.
My son wants to have laser eye surgery to correct his myopia. Am I going to look for a doctor who recently went to a short course to perform the operation, or am going to ask everyone I know for their references, and then select the surgeon who has been doing this operation for years with the highest rate of success? I think the answer is obvious.
Susan Becker
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Nov 6, 2011
Jun 12, 2009
The forces behind increasing Diameter signaling
I want to discuss some of the issues pushing the amount of signaling and Diameter.
We see growing amount of Diameter traffic in the networks, presenting Service providers with new challenges of managing Diameter traffic, scalability and confronting bottlenecks in their networks.
Here are some of the reasons for the growing amount of Diameter signaling
- Subscriber growth and subscribers migration to Next Gen. Networks
- Flat rate plans for data services
- Growing amount of Converged networks
- Diameter maturity with growing amount of interfaces and connectivity
- Continuing network migration to NGN
- Growing number of enforcement (DPI/PCEF) and policy (PDF/PCRF) functions, which are major source of Diameter signaling
- Increase in new services
- Continuing migration from 2G/2.5G to 3G, NGN and beyond (e.g. LTE)
- New interface speeds
Another important affect to take into consideration is that with the increase in network and signaling complexity and traffic of Diameter signaling in NGN, the network management becomes a growing concern, with new issues (surprisingly familiar from the days of SS7 based networks) related to identifying, analyzing and solving network related issues.
All those signaling and Diameter related issues can result in growing maintenance and management costs, increasing downtime, QoS issues, customer satisfaction and of course Service providers revenues.
To confront those issues, Services providers need to add and scale NGN infrastructure capacity, and to take into account Diameter and network design, scalability, signaling balancing and routing when charting new NGN related RFP’s.
Here at Traffix we offer them a set of products to confront those issues, from Diameter Gateways to confront vendor and standard interoperability issues, through Diameter load balancers and up to advanced contextual signaling and Diameter management solutions.
We see growing amount of Diameter traffic in the networks, presenting Service providers with new challenges of managing Diameter traffic, scalability and confronting bottlenecks in their networks.
Here are some of the reasons for the growing amount of Diameter signaling
- Subscriber growth and subscribers migration to Next Gen. Networks
- Flat rate plans for data services
- Growing amount of Converged networks
- Diameter maturity with growing amount of interfaces and connectivity
- Continuing network migration to NGN
- Growing number of enforcement (DPI/PCEF) and policy (PDF/PCRF) functions, which are major source of Diameter signaling
- Increase in new services
- Continuing migration from 2G/2.5G to 3G, NGN and beyond (e.g. LTE)
- New interface speeds
Another important affect to take into consideration is that with the increase in network and signaling complexity and traffic of Diameter signaling in NGN, the network management becomes a growing concern, with new issues (surprisingly familiar from the days of SS7 based networks) related to identifying, analyzing and solving network related issues.
All those signaling and Diameter related issues can result in growing maintenance and management costs, increasing downtime, QoS issues, customer satisfaction and of course Service providers revenues.
To confront those issues, Services providers need to add and scale NGN infrastructure capacity, and to take into account Diameter and network design, scalability, signaling balancing and routing when charting new NGN related RFP’s.
Here at Traffix we offer them a set of products to confront those issues, from Diameter Gateways to confront vendor and standard interoperability issues, through Diameter load balancers and up to advanced contextual signaling and Diameter management solutions.
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