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

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 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

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