Traffix Announces Enhancements in its Diameter Edge Agent (DEA) for Tighter Security and Improved Performance in Roaming, Billing and 3rd Party Use Cases

Traffix Announces Enhancements in its Diameter Edge Agent (DEA) for Tighter Security and Improved Performance in Roaming, Billing and 3rd Party Use Cases

An Integral Part of the Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller (SDC), a Single Platform for all the Diameter Signaling Solutions Required for Reliable, Top Performance Networks

4G World, CHICAGO, October 24, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    Traffix Systems, the Diameter control plane experts, today announced
significant enhancements in its Diameter Edge Agent (DEA) that extend its
capabilities in network signaling for tighter security and normalized
functionality in roaming, billing and third party content scenarios.

    The Traffix DEA is an integral capability of the Traffix Signaling
Delivery Controller (SDC) routing solution, a single platform that provides
all signaling requirements for carriers. With its Diameter Gateway, Diameter
Load Balancer and Diameter Router solutions consolidated on one platform,
carriers are guaranteed cost-effective seamless connectivity, unlimited
scalability and simplified control to support subscribers' heavy and growing
use of mobile broadband data.

    The Traffix DEA is enhanced with the following:

   
    - Normalization engine ensuring that only supported AVPs
      (attribute-value pair) and content enter the network
    - High security and failover protection by masquerading the
      network to prevent unauthorized access by ensuring that external
      sessions are routed according to policies set by the service provider
    - Guaranteed accuracy of incoming and outgoing messages with
      mechanisms to either fix or reject the message if the message presents a
      problem
    - Network protection from both overload and draining the network's
      resources
    - Prevention of outgoing messages from content that exposes the
      network
    - Improved Diameter policy rule engine that makes decisions on an
      unlimited number of AVPs based on destination, origin, location, QoS,
      rating, vendor or any other information or any combination thereof
    - Full compliance with GSMA's IR.88 requirements for LTE roaming
      guidelines
    - Support of IPsec and/or TLS security
    - Key KPIs based on unique visibility of all Diameter signaling
      information entering or leaving the network

    "These are critical routing enhancements that will support the
realization of LTE. For example, the extra security will enable service
providers to work freely with third party roaming partners and share
resources securely," commented Joe McGarvey, Principal Analyst at Current
Analysis.

    "When our DEA is located on the edge of the network it works to protect
and normalize the flow of messages. For example, if a problem arises between
two networks' PCRFs - both networks are protected from overflow or failover
situations. It is truly a critical function in maintaining network
performance at the highest level," said Ben Volkow, CEO of Traffix. "These
latest enhancements definitely make our DEA the only one of this caliber
that is commercially available."

    About Traffix

    Traffix is the Diameter control plane expert since 2005 leading the
market with a range of Diameter products
[http://www.traffixsystems.com/sdc.html ] deployed at over 100 operators
worldwide. Traffix supports telecommunications service providers to build
high capacity, high performance data networks for a cost-efficient path to
4G. For more information, visit http://www.traffixsystems.com

   
    Media Contacts:

    Traffix Systems
    Susan Becker
    Phone: +972-54-3094440
    Email:  susan@traffixsystems.com

Source: Traffix Systems

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