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SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE SIGNALING SERVICES

“Mobile data traffic has grown 4,000-fold over the past 10 years and almost 400-million-fold over the past 15 years.“

Mobile data and mobile internet usage are booming. In the fiercely competitive carrier market, mobile data is now the single most lucrative revenue stream. According to the latest Cisco Visual Index:

And 4G traffic exceeded third-generation (3G) traffic for the first time in 2015. With 4G/5G and the introduction of IMS services, carriers have enormous opportunities, yet signaling complexities and migration to new platforms have been problematic. Make no mistake, however, the future is network mobility, as mobile devices, smartphones, and Internet of Things (IoT) data traffic demand more sophisticated communication signaling and coordination. Responding to the market means quickly deploying new services to retain data-hungry customers and grow market share. Data convergence is key, with a common repository that enables shared services. Common authentication data enables seamless access of these services across multiple network domains.

Consolidation and data convergence also allow operators to quickly and easily integrate new features and functions, such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) support.

While IoT devices may yield a relatively small average revenue per unit, IoT is about volume: it is estimated that there are currently 6.4 billion IoT devices today, with 50+ billion estimated by 2020. Yet provisioning current operator systems for IoT requires new hardware and software. NetNumber HSS/HLR is pre-integrated with IoT support.

The NetNumber HSS/HLR data integration and software-only solution also enables more cost-effective new service. Now, MVNOs can easily and affordably front-end their service with a NetNumber software-only solution that interfaces with carriers with little configuration and low hardware investment.

New Markets, New Services, and Migration, on One Platform Introducing new network technologies has meant major HSS/HLR core system upgrades in the past. With NetNumber, high-performance, software-based HSS/HLR systems can easily be installed and integrated with existing HSS/HLR systems with no disruption at a fraction of the cost of hardware-centric solutions.

Home Location Registry (HLR) has served 2G/3G customers and carriers well, enabling mobile call connections and roaming through signaling coordination with secure, stored databases of subscriber services modules and applications Authentication (AuC). With NetNumber, operators can run legacy and new systems side-by-side and migrate at their leisure, insuring services—and customers—are never interrupted.

Public Safety and defense organizations need secure, reliable LTE communications in the field, and investing in a private LTE network is now becoming commonplace. The TITAN-powered HSS with AuC, is at the core of critical Public Safety organizations networks today providing reliable LTE communication solutions, that can be expanded as needed. NetNumber’s HSS is a secure, scalable and cost-effective solution where physical resource constraints are a key factor in determining the network architecture.

USE CASE: NETNUMBER HSS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY: SMALL, AFFORDABLE, AND SECURE

TITAN customers see:• Reduced cost of implementation• Lower maintenance• Unlimited scalability• Easy expansion of other signaling services• “Future-proof” architecture

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NetNumber is massively scalable, serving a very small number of sessions to tens of

millions, using the same software.

TITAN VirtualizedSolution

CommonHardware Approach

Virtualized TITAN HLRVirtualized TITAN HSS

NetNumber TITAN: Software Stacks Versus Hardware Racks With NetNumber TITAN, carriers around the world have found the best solution to HLR/HSS migration and co-location of services is though software, not through hardware. With its software-centric approach, one TITAN server and its software applications can perform the tasks of dozens of specialized blade racks (Figure 1).

In fact, the NetNumber software-based approach to carrier services is 40% less expensive in terms of deployment, maintenance, and scalability. Another cost reduction is the future-proof nature of TITAN’s software design: at the end-of-life (EOL) of existing service components, rather than rip and replace expensive hardware, carriers merely upgrade software and/or migrate services to NetNumber’s more innovative products. This EOL upgrade approach is at the core of NetNumber’s HSS/HLR application, giving

Figure 1 . NetNumber TITAN sofware-centric solution approach versus common hardware approach.

carriers a graceful and safe migration path from HLR to HSS with no hardware obsolescence.

The NetNumber HSS and HLR with AuC application package is one of several supported by the TITAN Centralized Signaling and Routing Control (CSRC) platform. While other telecom component providers rely on stacked racks of specialized blades, interconnected, NetNumber TITAN is one centralized control server—all signaling control services are software applications added to the TITAN CSRC platform. No racks required. This revolutionary software-only approach to signaling and routing has the following, extraordinary benefits:• Lower cost - less hardware, less maintenance• Easy upgrades - software, versus “bladeware”• Smooth integration and transition between legacy and

next-generation networks• Higher performance, with distributed in-memory

database(s)

NetNumber also delivers the most flexible deployment options in the industry—from on-site TITAN server setup, to cloud-based TITAN services, to fully NetNumber-managed and maintained CSRC systems.

NetNumber now serves over 150 carriers on five continents. And TITAN servers process more than 200 billion transactions per month.

New Services? Deploy a NetNumber HSS software solution as a front-end to your existing central HSS

infrastructure. This non-disruptive approach preserves current assets yet makes new service

rollouts painless, fast, and easy to maintain.

Multiple racks of monolithic HLR and HSS

systems

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Figure 2 . TITAN Unified Authentication DB for multiple services

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Highly scalable Unified HSS/HLR

Authentication DB

Web/IMS

PDN &VoWiFi

4G/5G3G

2G

Best of Both Worlds: HSS and HLR with one Authentication DB and SDMThe NetNumber solution implements both HSS and HLR as upgradable software modules on a common platform. TITAN hosts HSS/HLR concurrently, serving 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, IMS and VoWiFi in one infrastructure design (Figure 2). All HSS and HLR service data can then be consolidated on a single, highly scalable Subscriber Data Management (SDM) and Authentication database. This gives carriers the ability to:• Consolidate data and reduce maintenance• Streamline operations and optimize services• Migrate HLR and HSS subscriber data to one AuC

database

NetNumber HSS and HLR do not sacrifice service, standards, or capabilities. NetNumber HSS/HLR can also be

The Internet of Things and the Future of Networks: Software RulesAccording to a Cisco report, as many as 50 billion IoT devices will communicate over public networks

by 2020. How will carriers accommodate this traffic? And more importantly, how will they enable innovation and security? A hardware approach is fraught with inflexibility and costly upgrades.

Only software can quickly and affordably tackle the challenges and exploit the opportunities of IoT. As a software solution, NetNumber has IoT support built-in and ready to run.

used as a front-end for existing HSS/HLR hardware systems, giving carriers the ability to add the latest innovations without modifying or replacing their existing HSS/HLR infrastructure.

TITAN at the CoreNetNumber offers carriers and network operators a strategic shift in the deployment of signaling and database functions using the TITAN platform. TITAN is a standards-based, multi-protocol signaling and database platform that supports core signaling control, centralized routing and network database services on a common, virtualized platform infrastructure. TITAN offers one signaling control infrastructure that is deployed once and leveraged over time by adding multiple Virtual Network Functions (VNF) encompassing all signaling, routing, and database services.

Benefits Pay-As-You-Grow: With Protocol-Agnostic, Tiered Licensing, TITAN is always sized for the customer’s current needs. Purchasing licenses in advance for ‘future growth’ is never required. TITAN’s flexible licensing model fits complex multi-protocol environments by accommodating complex interworking and migration scenarios, without the need to license multiple signaling protocols.

Lower Licensing and Maintenance Costs: Consolidation of functions on to a common TITAN platform means the total cost of licensing and maintaining network functions and applications is much lower than purchasing these functions as stand-alone network hardware elements.

Lower Operational Costs: Centralized provisioning with TITAN significantly reduces provisioning efforts, eliminating the need to provision and maintain multiple, disparate network components separately.

Reduce or Eliminate Costly OSS/BSS Rework: Data provisioned in TITAN (e.g. Number Portability data) is shared across all TITAN applications, eliminating multiple database ‘stove pipes’ throughout the network.

Reduced Hardware Costs: TITAN is deployed in virtual server environments (VMWare or KVM) or on COTS Intel server hardware, eliminating costly application-specific hardware and maintenance costs.

All Protocols in One System: SIP, ENUM, DIAMETER, SS7 (MAP, CAP, INAP, etc.) over TDM or SIGTRAN on one platform.

Multi-Protocol Interworking: TITAN is the leader in complex signaling interworking, routing, and number portability solutions.

Real-time Replication: Real-time replication of core network databases, with no geographic limitations.

Centralized Provisioning: One single provisioning point with real-time replication to distributed TITAN Edges.

Unrivalled Scaling and Performance: TITAN’s patented in-memory database technologies offer unmatched performance.

NetNumber SLEE: The powerful NetNumber Service Logic Execution Layer allows the implementation of complex customer-specific logic as an application. No changes to the core TITAN software load are required.

Compatibility with Legacy Systems: Smooth interworking with legacy networks for non-legacy devices (e.g. SS7 and SBC).

Best of Both Worlds: HSS and HLR with one Authentication DB and SDMThe NetNumber solution implements both HSS and HLR as upgradable software modules on a common platform. TITAN hosts HSS/HLR concurrently, serving 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, IMS and VoWiFi in one infrastructure design (Figure 2). All HSS and HLR service data can then be consolidated on a single, highly scalable Subscriber Data Management (SDM) and Authentication database. This gives carriers the ability to:• Consolidate data and reduce maintenance• Streamline operations and optimize services• Migrate HLR and HSS subscriber data to one AuC

database

NetNumber HSS and HLR do not sacrifice service, standards, or capabilities. NetNumber HSS/HLR can also be

used as a front-end for existing HSS/HLR hardware systems, giving carriers the ability to add the latest innovations without modifying or replacing their existing HSS/HLR infrastructure.

TITAN at the CoreNetNumber offers carriers and network operators a strategic shift in the deployment of signaling and database functions using the TITAN platform. TITAN is a standards-based, multi-protocol signaling and database platform that supports core signaling control, centralized routing and network database services on a common, virtualized platform infrastructure. TITAN offers one signaling control infrastructure that is deployed once and leveraged over time by adding multiple Virtual Network Functions (VNF) encompassing all signaling, routing, and database services.

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NetNumber HLR Features• Embedded 2G/3G Authentication Center (AuC)• Security procedures requested from VLR, SGSN, MME

and S-CSCF network elements• Location Management services• Roaming and Barring services• Subscriber Data services• Subscriber Profile Interrogation• Call Handling procedures• Number Translation services• Procedures related to Supplementary Services• Multi-SIM support• Number Portability services• UE Reachability procedures• PDP Context Activation procedures (GGSN interface)• SMS Management services (SMSC interface)• Location Management services (GMLC interface)• Subscriber Data Handling (subscription / notification

services, MM-Tel profile synchronization)• Fault Recovery services• OAM procedures.

NetNumber HSS FeaturesCx Application• Load balanced and/or prioritized S-CSCF selection (origin

and/or user identity based)• Telephone-number and alphanumerical identities,

distinct and wild-carded identities• Directly and indirectly routable Public Service Identities

(PSI)• Shared Private / Public User Identity with Implicit

Registration Sets• Selected authentication methods (SIP Digest, IMS AKA)

using an integrated or an external AuC• Support of emergency registrations, loose routing,

roaming control, shared initial filter criteria, service ID lists, display names, service info, and maximum allowed simultaneous registrations

• Distribution of administrative actions (de-registration, administrative blocking, user data changes, server name changes, etc.) to the network elements keeping the profile data.

Sh Application• Data access authorization• Processing of updates and requests for transparent and

non-transparent (MMTel services) user data information triggered by the application servers and other network elements

• Support of subscriptions and notifications with regards to the “Sh” profile changes

• Distribution of administrative actions to the network elements keeping the profile data.

S6 Application• Information transfer between MME/SGSN and HSS

(location update, purge, and cancel)• Location management, subscriber data handling, fault

recovery and notification procedures• Support of E-UTRAN and UTRAN/GERAN authentication

info delivery• RAT and visited PLMN Authorization AuC• Delivery of SIP Digest or IMS AKA (Milenage)

authentication vectors• Support of SQN re-synchronization, SQN segmentation,

and SQN anonymity.Others• Interworking with the legacy HLR/AuC and SGSN nodes

via MAP• Interworking with BSF via Diameter “Zh”• Interworking with AAA server via Diameter “Wx”/”SWx”• Support of signaling and provisioning HSS counters

according to 3GPP TS 32.409.

Benefits Pay-As-You-Grow: With Protocol-Agnostic, Tiered Licensing, TITAN is always sized for the customer’s current needs. Purchasing licenses in advance for ‘future growth’ is never required. TITAN’s flexible licensing model fits complex multi-protocol environments by accommodating complex interworking and migration scenarios, without the need to license multiple signaling protocols.

Lower Licensing and Maintenance Costs: Consolidation of functions on to a common TITAN platform means the total cost of licensing and maintaining network functions and applications is much lower than purchasing these functions as stand-alone network hardware elements.

Lower Operational Costs: Centralized provisioning with TITAN significantly reduces provisioning efforts, eliminating the need to provision and maintain multiple, disparate network components separately.

Reduce or Eliminate Costly OSS/BSS Rework: Data provisioned in TITAN (e.g. Number Portability data) is shared across all TITAN applications, eliminating multiple database ‘stove pipes’ throughout the network.

Reduced Hardware Costs: TITAN is deployed in virtual server environments (VMWare or KVM) or on COTS Intel server hardware, eliminating costly application-specific hardware and maintenance costs.

All Protocols in One System: SIP, ENUM, DIAMETER, SS7 (MAP, CAP, INAP, etc.) over TDM or SIGTRAN on one platform.

Multi-Protocol Interworking: TITAN is the leader in complex signaling interworking, routing, and number portability solutions.

Real-time Replication: Real-time replication of core network databases, with no geographic limitations.

Centralized Provisioning: One single provisioning point with real-time replication to distributed TITAN Edges.

Unrivalled Scaling and Performance: TITAN’s patented in-memory database technologies offer unmatched performance.

NetNumber SLEE: The powerful NetNumber Service Logic Execution Layer allows the implementation of complex customer-specific logic as an application. No changes to the core TITAN software load are required.

Compatibility with Legacy Systems: Smooth interworking with legacy networks for non-legacy devices (e.g. SS7 and SBC).

NetNumber HLR Features• Embedded 2G/3G Authentication Center (AuC)• Security procedures requested from VLR, SGSN, MME

and S-CSCF network elements• Location Management services• Roaming and Barring services• Subscriber Data services• Subscriber Profile Interrogation• Call Handling procedures• Number Translation services• Procedures related to Supplementary Services• Multi-SIM support• Number Portability services• UE Reachability procedures• PDP Context Activation procedures (GGSN interface)• SMS Management services (SMSC interface)• Location Management services (GMLC interface)• Subscriber Data Handling (subscription / notification

services, MM-Tel profile synchronization)• Fault Recovery services• OAM procedures.

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NetNumber HSS FeaturesCx Application• Load balanced and/or prioritized S-CSCF selection (origin

and/or user identity based)• Telephone-number and alphanumerical identities,

distinct and wild-carded identities• Directly and indirectly routable Public Service Identities

(PSI)• Shared Private / Public User Identity with Implicit

Registration Sets• Selected authentication methods (SIP Digest, IMS AKA)

using an integrated or an external AuC• Support of emergency registrations, loose routing,

roaming control, shared initial filter criteria, service ID lists, display names, service info, and maximum allowed simultaneous registrations

• Distribution of administrative actions (de-registration, administrative blocking, user data changes, server name changes, etc.) to the network elements keeping the profile data.

Sh Application• Data access authorization• Processing of updates and requests for transparent and

non-transparent (MMTel services) user data information triggered by the application servers and other network elements

• Support of subscriptions and notifications with regards to the “Sh” profile changes

About NetNumberNetNumber, Inc. brings 16 years of experience delivering innovative signaling control solutions that enable carriers to accelerate implementation of new services across multiple generations of networks, while dramatically simplifying the core network and reducing operating costs. Today, we are the leading provider of Centralized Signaling and Routing Control (CSRC) solutions to the global communications industry. Signaling-control applications supported on the TITAN CSRC platform include: STP, DSC, HSS, HLR, CRE/BGCF, I/S-CSCF, ENUM/DNS, Number-Portability, Ut-Proxy, GAA, AuC, SDM and PCRF.

• Distribution of administrative actions to the network elements keeping the profile data.

S6 Application• Information transfer between MME/SGSN and HSS

(location update, purge, and cancel)• Location management, subscriber data handling, fault

recovery and notification procedures• Support of E-UTRAN and UTRAN/GERAN authentication

info delivery• RAT and visited PLMN Authorization AuC• Delivery of SIP Digest or IMS AKA (Milenage)

authentication vectors• Support of SQN re-synchronization, SQN segmentation,

and SQN anonymity.Others• Interworking with the legacy HLR/AuC and SGSN nodes

via MAP• Interworking with BSF via Diameter “Zh”• Interworking with AAA server via Diameter “Wx”/”SWx”• Support of signaling and provisioning HSS counters

according to 3GPP TS 32.409.

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