Traffix Scalability Solutions – Scaling the Diameter control plane Traffix enables telecom operators to achieve NGN network scalability while effectively utilizing the new Diameter Control Plane.
One of the realities facing today’s modern telecom operators is a rapidly growing demand for wireless data bandwidth. Variety of new services and devices are creating an ever increasing requirement from users for additional network bandwidth, anywhere. This is one of the reasons why NGN and the Diameter control plane is becoming an important part of telecom strategy for the near future.
Next Generation Network Challenges
One of the challenges facing telecom operators is how to scale up their network cost effectively. One of the new challenges is not scaling the data transport layer, but scaling the Diameter control plane. The scalability issues with the Diameter control plan are derived both from the increase in data traffic as well as from the amount of signaling of new services, new charging models, and the fragmentation of the control plane into an ever increasing number of different network elements. In the legacy telecom world which was dominantly a voice oriented architecture, the scalability challenges were focused on the transport layer. This is not the case with NGN (or IMS or LTE) where the interface between different network elements, such as GGSN to the OCS is now part of the Diameter control plane. To enable true network scalability and to manage the growing amount of data traffic in an NGN and IMS environment, today’s telecom operators need to take into account the Diameter control plane as an essential part of its network architecture strategy.
Scalability, Availability and Service Assurance
Traffix, the Diameter control plane expert, has focused on supporting telecom operators achieve their goal of control plane scalability. Traffix has assisted operators confront scalability related issues with Traffix Diameter Load Balancer. The Diameter load balancing function is essential not just for scalability but also for network service assurance, management and availability. This needs to be done both efficiently and cost effectively.
The Traffix Diameter Load Balancer
The Traffix Diameter Load Balancer was specifically designed to meet the challenges of the Diameter control plane; unlike traditional load balancers the Traffix Diameter Load Balancer is a legal Diameter entity in the network which is thoroughly familiar with all Diameter interfaces enabling easy contextual load balancing. More on Traffix Diameter Load Balancer product…
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