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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Overwhelming: Connected everything

Smart Chimps, May 2016

IoT clearly presents mobile operators with huge potential for market growth, and with the phenomenon giving the end user a greater control of their connected devices from their handset than ever before, there’s a clear demand from both sides for it to work.

However, if this tech revolution is to truly take off and its full capabilities are to be fully realised, IoT developers and mobile operators must first conquer the key issues which may prevent it reaching its full potential. In particular, in the telecom world, network capacity should be viewed as the biggest concern.

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SDN and NFV in 2016

Capacity, March 2016

There are voices that argue that for moderation in place of unseemly haste if this future is to be reached bloodlessly. Robin Kent, director of European operations at vendor Adax, believes that in the headlong rush to virtualise, assumptions are often made than software is where all emphasis should go at the expense of hardware elements: “To prove successful, NFV can only occur when there is architecture in place for both hardware and software,” he warns. “Getting away from proprietary hardware is good, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.”

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Edge flows, test flows and IoT Security

The Mobile Network, March 2016

MWC16, the week that was…

IoT was a massive topic at MWC in general, but one particular aspect was being highlighted by signalling platform provider Adax. Adax’s Robin Kent is concerned that the sheer volume of connections, and their often inherently chatty nature (think a connected car app) will overwhelm the security and transport architecture inherent in current mobile signalling.

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