What is the business challenge?

The ability to send traditional SS7 signaling over IP has been available for many years, but the migration to SIGTRAN has been slow. The cost of maintaining SS7 on traditional TDM network architectures is becoming more expensive and does not take advantage of the standards and technology now available. Network operators are now making this migration at an increasing pace and need to do this in a reliable and cost effective-manner with no disruption to their customers or existing applications.

How can network operators achieve this migration to SIGTRAN while reducing operational costs, maintaining service availability, and future proofing their network investment? How can network equipment manufacturers support their customers?

Our solution

Ulticom's industry-leading Signalware solutions enable network operators to cost-effectively and seamlessly transition their networks from SS7 to IP. As an integral part of the Ulticom Signalware offer, telecommunications equipment manufacturers can now build equipment with the capability to enable a graceful migration from SS7 to SIGTRAN. Additionally, this equipment can be deployed in a traditional SS7 architecture and then migrated - incrementally, link by link, device by device - to an IP transport based upon SIGTRAN. Such a migration path - with zero down time - is a critical requirement for any telecommunications equipment being deployed today.

This solution - first introduced by Ulticom - is referred to as "Super Node."

What business benefits does it deliver?

Super Node provides customers the flexibility to deploy systems today in network configurations that require both traditional SS7 and SIGTRAN architectures, often side-by-side. It enables equipment manufacturers to create cost-effective solutions that leverage a common platform and thus maximize the re-use of system components for cost savings. These savings can be realized with a common platform to lower support, equipment, and development costs. These benefits, along with others, are passed along to the network operators. Super Node allows for the protection of investments made in network applications while delivering the cost benefits of IP transport. This allows network operators to increase signaling capacity beyond traditional limits and scale systems to generate increased revenue. Most importantly, this migration can be realized without impacting the underlying service.

Why choose us?

Ulticom is the world leader in SS7 signaling solutions. Signalware provides the critical signaling foundation for network elements that enable vital network services in mobility, location, payment, switching, and messaging. The Signalware product portfolio features comprehensive multi-protocol signaling application development and deployment platforms. The Signalware solution offers an unparalleled combination of carrier-grade scalability, fault resiliency, global interoperability, and consistency of standards-based APIs across industry-leading computing platforms. Combined with a global, best-in-class support team, Signalware is depended upon to help run today's networks and will be depended on for tomorrow's networks.

Signalware works and is trusted by nearly every leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer and network operator to keep their networks up and running around the clock.

Our references

With more than 4,000 deployments in over 300 networks around the globe, Ulticom forms the foundation for much of the telecom signaling world. Ultimately the world's telecommunications operators depend upon Signalware for both wireline and wireless networks. Additionally, Signalware is being used by some of the newest, up-and-coming equipment manufacturers who are building the next generation of industry-changing solutions.