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New High Density Signaling Gateway
for High Performance with High Availability
Distributed design and operation with no single point of failure and complete scalability

15 February 2005, 3GSM, Cannes, France: Adax has announced a significant new High Density addition to its Signaling Gateway product family. Supporting up to 256 SS7 links the highly scalable Adax Universal Signaling Gateway (USG) has a fully redundant design with no single point of failure to provide a highly reliable SS7 – IP gateway solution. Based upon a 4U rack mounted chassis, the USG is designed to be implemented as a mated pair providing a single network element with a single point code that performs like a traditional SS7 STP, while providing IP inter-working with SIGTRAN endpoints and SoftSwitches. The link density, scalability, throughput and high performance of the Adax USG enables operators to manage the growth of their network while maximizing revenues and satisfying consumer demands for new services.

From a single common platform the Adax Universal Signaling Gateway can support SCTP, M2PA, M2UA, M3UA, and SUA together with options for M2PA to M3UA and SUA interworking. The result is a multi-purpose solution for any SS7 over IP requirement with options for SS7/IP switching, routing, tunneling, and back-haul. The USG also supports SCCP (Signaling Connection Control Part) to provide network services above MTP3 and can perform GTT (Global Title Translation) to enable the destination signaling point and SSN (Subsystem Number) to be determined from the signaling message.

The Universal Signaling Gateway enables 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 with the more ‘bursty’ nature of traffic generated by SMS and multi-media messaging.

“With the announcement of the USG we have now added a high density option to our range of Signaling Gateways” said Barry Zuckerman, President of Adax Inc. “This level of scalability is a must for our high-end telecom customers.”

The Adax gateways are NEBS certified platforms for carrier-grade system reliability and the new USG has a fully redundant design with no single point of failure to provide a highly reliable SS7 - IP gateway solution. With outstanding performance and reliability the Adax gateways offer one of the lowest costs per link and highest throughputs available on the market today.

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