Question: Is 5G the right focus for 2017?

Smart Chimps, March 2017

Media commentators and industry experts alike are making bold predictions about how the move to 5G is necessary to facilitate the explosive increase in demand for wireless broadband services needing faster, higher capacity networks that can deliver video and other content-rich services.

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IT Partners Telco joins forces with Adax to deliver complete network solution to ISPs

February 27th, 2017 – Adax, an industry leader in high performance signaling and packet processing infrastructure, today announces it is joining forces with IT Partners Telco to enable the wireless communications specialist to provide Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with a complete network solution. IT Partners Telco will now introduce the Adax EPC-as-a-service model to the 160-plus small 3.5/3.7G license owners in Poland, with a view to expanding its client base into the neighbouring Czech and Slovakia markets.

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Adax SX unlocks the power of legacy TDM equipment

February 20th, 2017 – Adax, an industry leader in high-performance signaling and packet processing infrastructure, has today announced the launch of its new signaling extender. The Adax SX meets the needs of service providers wanting to maintain their current legacy time-division multiplexing (TDM) equipment but modernize the core by turning the TDM circuits into VoIP and SIGTRAN before data and calls are transmitted over long distances.

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PortaOne passes the test for Adax

January 5th, 2017 – Adax, an industry leader in high-performance signaling and packet-processing infrastructure, today announces it has successfully completed an international interoperability test with global billing and softswitch solutions developer, PortaOne. This means that PortaOne can deliver LTE provisioning and OCS (B/OSS) solutions in accordance with the Adax LTE-EPC.

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SCTP: A Standard But They Are Not All The Same

Service providers are struggling to provide a highly reliable transport mechanism across all network types that maintains the Five 9s reliability that telecom networks demand.

There is renewed urgency to address signaling-based threats to wireless communications networks and service providers are struggling to protect their networks. As the number of LTE subscribers grows so does the number of connected devices and as the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to snowball vast numbers of devices need to connect to the core network. The underlying transmission protocols, such as SCTP, need to be able to support the huge number of simultaneous connections trying to access the network simultaneously and security in the network is more important today than ever before. Today’s interconnected networks are vulnerable to hijacking via insecure links or rogue network nodes. Application vendors are worried that they can unknowingly allow the network to be compromised when presumably ‘secure VPNs’ invisibly transport threats within packets.

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Managing the transition from legacy to LTE in the telecoms world

VanillaPlus, Nov 2016

…Network operators want to grow and adapt to the change but cannot afford to suddenly pack up their bags and leave behind their legacy interfaces. Legacy SS7 based services need to work alongside LTE protocols to ensure that both ends of the functionality spectrum meet the QoS required. Operators need a signaling gateway solution for SS7-IP interworking that they can rely on to ensure the transition from legacy to LTE is as smooth as possible.

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Why Narrow Band IoT can help the ever growing concept truly take-off

Telecoms.com, Sept 2016

…With strong predictions that NB-IoT will significantly improve the power consumption of devices, system capacity and spectrum efficiency, especially for deep coverage, at a low cost, operators need to be equipped with the correct tools to make sure it’s a true success. Launches of the technology are expected soon so now is the time for the industry to prepare and ensure everything is in place to cope with the undoubted high demand on the core networks from end users.

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Secure: Protecting networks in the IoT age

Smart Chimps, Sept 2016

…The huge potential for market growth is one major attraction that IoT offers to operators, yet 86% of them admit they are not yet ready for the concept [Telecoms.com Intelligence Annual Industry Survey 2016]. In addition, according to Telecoms.com Intelligence IoT Outlook Report 2015, concerns regarding security are the biggest barrier to implementing IoT among operators, and just 10% said they are fully capable of launching secure IoT services. These are worrying statistics so it’s essential for operators to have peace of mind that their networks are secure…

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Why Narrow Band IoT can help the ever growing concept truly take-off

We all know that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the hot topic in the tech world today. From smart homes and connected cars, to intelligent systems in the healthcare and retail sectors, IoT promises to deliver a great deal to both consumers and businesses alike. However, for the phenomenon to become a success, the pioneers leading the development of the concept must ensure they have all the tools and knowledge they need for it to truly take-off. It’s not as easy as simply adopting IoT technology, working with device manufacturers and offering a brand new package to end users. With the thousands of dedicated IoT networks being deployed, operators need to address the inevitable security and capacity issues in connecting them to the core network. Standardisation and deployment costs should also be considered, and one such technology network operators are looking to adopt is Narrow Band (NB-IoT).

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