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30th July 2004 - CellGlide, provider of telco-grade
mobile traffic shaping solutions for GPRS, EDGE and
UMTS mobile networks, today announced it has used Adax
signalling controllers to help test and improve its
GPRS Mobile Traffic Shaper™ (MTS). The company
built a low cost SGSN platform, which incorporates the
Adax ACT4-PCI and HDC-PCI Combo MTP2 cards, to simulate
different mobile network deployments in the lab. The
cards provided a cost-effective signalling interface
and robust testing reference for the platform and were
quickly and easily integrated with the existing GPRS
and SS7 stacks. This enabled CellGlide to reduce the
cost and time taken to develop the SGSN simulator and
its MTS product.
The CellGlide GPRS MTS is a core data-network product,
so its development and testing would normally require
a complex multi-million dollar captive lab environment.
The Adax-based SGSN simulator platform could be easily
scaled and/or replicated to create complex mobile network
deployment configurations. This allowed CellGlide to
conduct sophisticated testing in-house, removing the
high cost and inconvenience of using external testing
facilities to develop their MTS product.
“We were looking for a robust signalling platform
that could be easily integrated with our GPRS and SS7
stacks,” said Dr. Aharon Satt, Chief Technology
Officer at CellGlide. “The Adax products offered
a solid testing reference platform with an attractive
price-per-port. This low-cost easy-integration testing
infrastructure enabled us to quickly build an extensive
captive environment, which in turn helped reduce product
development time.”
The ACT4-PCI card is a four port, high density, channelled
HDLC board that provides a cost-effective solution for
Next Generation Networks and traffic monitoring applications.
The card can handle multiple protocols including X.25,
Frame Relay, LAPB, LAPD, HDLC and LAPV5, providing up
to 1,024 DS0s and increasing call capacity in a single
system.
The HDC-PCI Combo card is a high density, multiple
protocol, channelled controller for wireless, wireline
and converging PSTN/IP network platforms. It offers
support for both traditional SS7 and SIGTRAN protocols
for SS7 over IP, making it the ideal product for Signalling
Gateways and Media Gateway Controllers, in addition
to SGSNs, GGSNs, MSC and BSS nodes in GPRS networks.
About Adax Europe Ltd.
Adax is the industry of signalling infrastructure for
next generation networks. It provides high performance
end-to-end signalling solutions across SS7, IP and ATM
networks. Adax has an extensive product set which includes
signalling communications controllers and protocol software;
integrated signalling protocol stack solutions with
partners; and complete signalling gateways. The company's
products are standards-based, flexible and portable
to meet diverse customer requirements and provide interoperability.
This enables OEMs and integrators to deploy their signalling
application, node or system as quickly and efficiently
as possible irrespective of the underlying network interface
or architecture.
Adax provides signalling solutions for the world's
leading communications companies, including Lucent,
Nortel, Ericsson, Alcatel, Hughes Software Systems and
CCPU. Typical application areas include Signalling,
Voice over IP (VoIP), Media Gateways; Gateway GPRS Support
Node (GGSN) and Serving GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN) nodes
for GPRS and 3G; Intelligent Networks; Base Station
Control; Billing Mediation.
About CellGlide
CellGlide is a provider of telco-grade mobile traffic
shaping solutions that enable operators to deliver predictable,
reliable, and billable data services over mobile data
networks. Using the CellGlide GPRS Mobile Traffic Shaper,
operators reap immediate ROI benefits by employing service
differentiation, mobile SLAs, rich media streaming,
and other 3G-like services using available 2.5G network
infrastructure. CellGlide maintains sales and support
facilities in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Installed at the edge of the core network, the CellGlide
solution allocates cell resources in real-time, based
on available cell capacity, specific service characteristics,
and operator service policies. Complementing the functionality
of existing network service nodes, the CellGlide MTS
provides operators with unprecedented visibility of
service performance over the mobile data network, and
allows for accurate, cost-efficient network dimensioning
decisions. By assuring predictable, reliable and billable
GPRS services, and a significantly enhanced Quality
of User Experience (QoE), operators can reap immediate
ROI benefits from existing network infrastructure.
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