Ulticom's Signalware product family enables the development and deployment of carrier-grade communications services in wireless, IP, and wireline networks.

Wireless

The wireless segment is the fastest growing area in the telecom industry. The monthly average minute of use (MOU) per subscriber now exceeds 250 and the total number of wireless users worldwide is expected to grow from roughly 2 billion today to over 3 billion by 2009. Amid this growth are staggering revenue opportunities for new wireless services. Multimedia message service, location-based services and prepaid wireless all are expected to fuel continued growth and help carriers and network equipment providers maintain profitability in this challenging economy. In order to provide these services with carrier grade quality, developers utilize signaling protocols such as SS7 and Sigtran.

Wireless Network Components Built with Signalware:

• Base Station Systems (BSS)
• Home/Visitor Location Registers (HLR/VLR)
• Mobile Switching Centers (MSC)
• Short Message Service Centers (SMSC)
• Equipment Identity Registers (EIR)
• Authentication Centers (AuC)
• Serving/Gateway GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN/GGSN)
• Serving/Gateway Mobile Location Centers (SMLC/GMLC)

Examples of Advanced Wireless Services Enabled by Signalware:

• Global Roaming
• Prepaid Calling
• Text Messaging
• Mobile Switching
• Location Based Services
• Public WLAN Access

IP Networks

The NexGen Network (NGN) is full of opportunity for network equipment and service providers; it, however, also presents major challenges. Service providers need to retain their established signaling reliability while utilizing lower cost IP transportation. Conversely, NexGen networks must be able to deploy forward-looking services that function in the traditional network.

To enable each network to reliably capitalize on the other's benefits, Ulticom has developed carrier-class software convergence solutions. Signalware can provide a bridge that enables network equipment and service providers flexibility in migrating their platforms, applications, and services to evolving protocols and networks. Sigtran technology enables applications to run on both traditional and NexGen networks.

IP Network Components Built with Signalware:

• Signaling Gateway
• Media Gateway Controller / Softswitch
• SIP Server

Examples of Advanced IP Network Services Enabled by Signalware:

• Internet Offload
• VoIP
• Toll / Tandem Replacement
• Internet Call Waiting
• Multimedia Session Control
• Unified Messaging
• Click to Talk

Wireline

Ulticom's Signalware product enables network equipment vendors and service providers to offer high margin, value-added services that are critical to acquire, retain, and increase revenue per subscriber. Ulticom's Signalware software is a complete development and deployment environment that provides the critical link to accessing signaling features for managing call control, routing and validation in the wireline market.

Wireline Network Components Built with Signalware:

• Service Control Points (SCP)
• Service Switching Points (SSP)
• Intelligent Peripherals (IP)
• Service Nodes (SN)

Examples of Advanced Wireline Services Enabled by Signalware:

• 800 / Freephone
• Prepaid Calling
• Intelligent Call Routing / Call Center
• Local Number Portability
• Personal Number / Follow-Me
• Voice Mail