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CORNASTONE TO REDUCE COSTS AND ACHIEVE PLATFORM INDEPENDENCE
WITH ADAX
NEW SOLUTION TO BE INSTALLED AT LEADING GSM OPERATOR
18 March 2009, Reading, UK – Cornastone has
announced that, following
successful trials, it is installing Adax SS7/SIGTRAN Gateways in order
to cope with
increasing SS7 link loads. By moving the application towards a SIGTRAN
environment, Cornastone can take advantage of increased flexibility
which will allow
it to reduce costs and provide solutions which closely match different
customers’ requirements.
The AdaxGW will automatically upgrade Cornastone’s
legacy platform at a leading
GSM operator. With up to eight 2Mbit High-Speed SS7 links per system
, the
AdaxGW will allow Cornastone to enable the operator to process more
than 15M
transactions per day on each platform, reducing the SS7 link load
to less than 20%,
thereby increasing the reliability and speed of each transaction.
Arno Rooseboom, sales manager at Cornastone, explains: “Adax
has an excellent
reputation in the marketplace and worked closely with us to implement
a free trial of
its equipment. In the short term we are benefiting by being able
to address our SS7
link capacity problems, and in the long term the AdaxGW will provide
us with an
application that can run on any hardware platform”.
Robin Kent, director of operations at Adax Europe, continued: “Cornastone
is a
company we have known for a while through our work together at
a leading South
African mobile operator and we were delighted to be able to provide
it with a trial of
the AdaxGW. The AdaxGW provides both legacy SS7 and SIGTRAN support
for use
with convergence, wireless and intelligent networks which means
it can provide
customers with the ability to provide a flexible and seamless
offering to mobile
operators.”
The Adax signaling gateways enable the simple and straightforward
migration of
existing SS7 Nodes to IP transport, saving the costs associated with
leasing or
provisioning dedicated long haul SS7 circuits. In addition, the migration
to IP
signaling enables the network to deal with the increasing demands for
bandwidth
from new applications such as video gaming and traffic generated by
SMS and multimedia
messaging.
About Adax Europe Limited
Adax Europe Limited specialises in signaling infrastructure for today’s
converging networks, covering all
protocols and popular hardware formats to provide the right solution
for any signaling requirement. Adax high performance products are available for PSTN, GPRS, 3G and
IMS networks.
Adax signaling solutions deliver the high performance,
total scalability, fast time to market and rapid
return on investment that are essential for telecom companies to
stay ahead in a competitive and ever
changing industry. Solutions include signaling communications controllers
for SS7, ATM and IP;
integrated signaling protocol stacks and blades for SS7 and SIGTRAN;
and multi-purpose signaling
gateways for SS7 and IP interworking.
Adax customers include some of the world’s premier
telecom suppliers such as Alcatel-Lucent,
Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and Tekelec; and value added
service (VAS) providers and system
integrators such as NetHawk, Bharti Telesoft, and ip. Access.
For more information please visit www.adax.com or contact
Paul Stallard at Berkeley PR on 0118 988
2992 / adax@berkeleypr.co.uk
About Cornastone
Cornastone Infrastructure Services (CIS) is a South African
company that focuses exclusively on
unique solutions for the telecommunications market. The benefits
that CIS brings to our customers
and potential customers are our understanding of the business
requirements of this market and the
successful translation of these requirements into solutions.
The CIS team, who has some of the
highest level of telecommunications, integration and delivery
skills in the ICT market, was assembled
to ensure a successful transfer of skills that will empower
a wider group of ICT professionals to handle
large and complex projects. CIS is ideally positioned to
provide our customers with best of breed
products and unparalleled and responsive delivery capabilities.
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