Ulticom’s Signaling Platform Technology is the proven platform upon which all of our Signalware Network-Ready products are built. These products are ready to deploy out of the box and are derived from the strong heritage of the #1 market leading SS7 signaling platform, Signalware SP.
Ulticom’s Signaling Platform technology is delivered a turnkey IP-SS7 hybrid network element based upon proven STP capabilities and concepts derived from the world of routers, gateways, and firewalls. By placing this type of technology at the edges of current networks, service providers create opportunities for new capabilities and new technologies by incrementally extending existing networks and business models. Current services can be optimized for greater performance, and problems associated with change can be mitigated before they affect the core network. Providers can create all-IP islands with remarkable cost and performance benefits or eventually even replace their core SS7 network with an IP-based signaling network – one surrounded by islands of SS7 where cost or operational considerations dictate.
Ulticom’s Signaling Platform Technology provides the ability to make advanced routing decisions as packets cross between networks or network segments based upon information not available in a traditional STP. It can differentiate services, optimize traffic flow, enable new hybrid services, control access, hide information, and more. Most importantly, Ulticom’s Signaling Platform Technology can reduce costs and limit risk as networks evolve.
In addition, this technology delivers signaling packet routing between SS7 sub-networks, packet conversion between IP (IETF Sigtran) and SS7 as needed, selective packet filtering, content based packet steering, dynamic load distribution, congestion and overload management, packet screening, and more. It also provides inherent security for the networks that it joins. Address translation, much like the Internet NAT function, as well as traffic screening and blocking of undesirable network elements, are also included.