The Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller (SDC) enables you to meet subscribers’ exploding demand for data while maintaining top network performance. As the market’s most mature Diameter solution for communication service providers (CSPs), the SDC gives you the control you need to manage your network’s Diameter signaling and achieve your business objectives.
The SDC is the only Diameter solution that consolidates a Diameter Routing Agent (DRA), a Diameter Edge Agent (DEA), a Diameter load balancer, and a Diameter interworking function (IWF, or Diameter Gateway) on a single platform. You benefit from context-aware intelligent routing, reliable load balancing, and flexible, seamless connectivity. The result is a more cost-effective and simpler control plane architecture.
Benefit from the most mature and complete Diameter solution
Diameter signaling is central to the performance of your 4G LTE network, so it’s essential to deploy a mature and field-proven solution. The third-generation SDC combines 3GPP DRA, GSMA DEA, and 3GPP IWF in one comprehensive solution that delivers the highest and most reliable performance available in the market.
- Grow revenues with rapid service rollout and tiered charging plans
- Give subscribers consistently high quality of service and experience with a reliable, top-performing network
- Reduce CapEx and OpEx with a smaller footprint and more efficient use of resources
Scale your signaling infrastructure to handle data traffic growth
The SDC delivers the scalability you need to manage the massive increase in signaling messages from new data traffic growth and new LTE network elements. With the SDC you can add a blade and capacity without impact on external nodes. By enabling you to effectively manage traffic loads in your control plane network—even in cases of signaling surges or other failures in your network—the SDC helps you provide your subscribers the highest service availability.
- Simplifies management
- Provides health monitoring
- Uses off-the-shelf hardware
Tighten security for roaming, billing, and third-party content providers
Deploying the SDC extends your network signaling capabilities with tighter security and normalized functionality in roaming, billing, and third-party content scenarios. A Diameter Edge Agent (DEA) provides topology hiding that ensures you can share network resources with third-party roaming partners securely. When the DEA is located on the edge of the network, it also protects against unexpected signaling surges that can cause service disruption and it normalizes the flow of messages to your network.
- High security and failover protection to prevent unauthorized access
- Guaranteed accuracy of incoming and outgoing messages with mechanisms that either fix or reject problem messages
- Network protection from both overload and draining the network’s resources
Simplify your migration to 4G LTE with signaling flexibility
Migrating to 4G LTE introduces a number of new network elements that use the Diameter protocol for signaling, but there is still a lot of legacy equipment in the network—creating major interoperability issues. By deploying the SDC interworking function (IWF)—or Diameter Gateway—you enjoy seamless, cost-effective, any-to-any connectivity between Diameter-based interfaces and legacy signaling protocols, regardless of vendor.
- Interoperability with an unlimited variety of third-party vendors, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), and roaming partners
- Countless opportunities to enter alternative business models and introduce new revenue resources
- Reduced integration time and time to service launch
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