Service Policies
  • Highly flexible, policy-based routing engine
    • Rapid development and deployment of customized policies
    • Multi-tiered routing (no limit on number of tiers)
    • Multiple numbering plans (no limit) – international, national and private
    • Advanced call screening
    • Re-routing / route advance
    • Virtual Private Networks (VPN) support
    • Combination of TDM and IP Routes
  • Over 160 Routing/ Screening parameters
    • Signaling attributes
    • System attributes (e.g. trunk group parameters)
    • Dynamic attributes (e.g. Time of Day, ASR)
  • Other Service Policies
    • Announcements, account codes, personal pin, security pin, triggers, and authentication
Security Features
  • Provides security and NAT functions for signaling and media planes
  • Offers defenses against Denial of Service (DoS) and other IP layer attacks
  • Supports all H.323 and SIP peering traffic
  • Limitless network-wide scalability
  • Resides in the network core or in distributed points of presence (POP) as per service providers’ needs
  • Advanced provisioning and enforcement of security policies
SS7 (IMS/TISPAN Equivalence – SGF)
  • Termination of SS7 MTP, ISUP, TCAP
  • Telcordia tested
  • VeriSign (Illuminet) certified
  • Multi-National SS7 support
    • Support for ANSI, ITU, ETSI, and dozens of country-specific variants
    • Programmable signaling framework (data driven variant support)
  • Support for 8 to 160 A-links / E-Links / F-links per signaling gateway pair
M3UA
  • Supports M3UA adaptation layers defined within the SIGTRAN suite of protocols
  • It uses Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) and Internet Protocol (IP) as its underlying transport
  • M3UA configurations available:
    • MTP level 3 Backhaul: I-Gate 4000 EDGE terminates MTP and user signaling is backhauled to the ControlSwitch via IP
    • Peering with M3UA-capable STPs – In this mode, the ControlSwitch peers directly with STPs via IP
Service Level Assurance/QoS
  • Realtime event/statistics-driven routing and policy enforcement
  • Programmable concurrent calls limitation and monitoring
  • Prefixes, CIC and TNS parameters
  • ASR/ACD-based routing
  • Statistics database and report
  • Several report types (co-residing with the event relay server process and event collector)
  • Answer-Seizure Ratio (ASR) Reports
  • Average Call Duration (ACD) Reports
Directory Services
  • Supports directory lookups and number translations natively
  • Provides optimized large database lookup solution for applications such as ANI screening, LNP and ENUM
  • Scales up to 400 million entries
Legal Intercept
  • Provides mediation device with two interfaces:
    • TDM based loop via the Third Party Mediation Device for call delivery
    • IP based interface for provisioning of interception targets
Element Management
  • Unified management of distributed systems
  • Web-based GUI with local and remote interfaces
  • End-to-end realtime call tracing capabilities for both PSTN & VoIP signaling
  • Dynamic modification to parameters during operation
  • Circuit switch COT test support
  • Configuration and provisioning of all ControlSwitch elements; SS7 network parameters; trunk groups; media gateway parameters, routing policies; dial plans
  • Fault Management
  • ControlSwitch alarm management; Media Gateway alarm management; network element monitoring, and SS7 monitoring and audit reports
  • Open northbound interfaces for management system support
  • PL-SQL API, SNMP
  • Security:
    • Privilege levels and security for users
    • Creation and deletion of user groups
    • Login/Logoff tracking
  • Channel management at DS0 level
  • ISUP, CAS and PRI trunks Resource management
  • CDRs browsing
  • Performance Management:
    • Periodic monitoring
    • Scheduled reports generation
    • Wide range of Call Setup and Trunk Usage reports
CDR Generation and Searching
  • FTP transport, Text Based CDR with over 160 parameters, BAF format, Flexible CDR Query
  • Generates Text-based CDRs for billing mediation systems
  • Raw call events for billing and traffic analysis
    • Configurable persistent storage for call event data
    • Generates Bellcore AMA Format (BAF) CDRs
    • Coexistence with Open Settlement Protocol Clearinghouse
Event Collection and Relay
  • Collects and stores billing and call-related events and QoS statistics
  • In conjunction with the Policy Element, automates network-wide, realtime feedback and corrective action to maintain Custom SLAs.
  • SLAs established per customer, per interconnection partner, per service, etc.
  • Filters and Relays events to the clients in an open and standard format for:
    • Easing the integration with the customized event processing
    • Examples include Monitoring and Fraud management applications
Protocol Support
  • MGCP
  • H.248 v1 and H248 v2
  • ANSI/ITU/ETSI ISUP and many country variants
  • AIN/INAP
  • ISDN Q.931 (PRI): NI-2 and ETSI
  • Back-up D channel support
  • Q.931 non-facility associated signaling (NFAS)
  • SIP (RFC 3261 and others)
  • H.323 V1-V4
  • SIGTRAN: SCTP, M3UA and IUA
  • Digital CAS support (E&M, R1.5, R2)
  • CAS MF and DTMF Signaling support
  • CAS wink start, immediate start, and delay dial
  • SNMP
  • OSP
Approval compliances and Standards
  • ITU
  • ANSI
  • ETSI
  • Telcordia
  • IETF
  • TISPAN
  • IMS
  • MSF
Installation and Configuration
  • ControlSwitch software is pre-loaded and pre-configured on the system allowing efficient, expedited installation
  • Supports software upgrades without affecting active calls or call processing
Scalability and Performance
  • Optimized for high performance - scales to two million busy hour call attempts (BHCAs) across multiple media gateways on a SUN platform
  • Actual capacity is determined by call processing mix and on the hardware selected
  • Distributed, modular architecture provides unlimited and cost-effective scalability through addition of SUN platforms
Fault Tolerance and Reliability
  • Automatic failover of any ControlSwitch element to active backups distributed on one or more machines
  • Auto-diagnostic and recovery mechanisms for any hardware, software, signaling link, or network fault
  • Supports SCTP for reliable protocol for messaging between ControlSwitch elements and network level redundancy
  • Events collector and CDR Manager disk mirroring
  • High availability
  • Support for geographic redundancy
  • Routing database replication
  • CPU overload protection
  • SS7 link redundancy
Recommended Platform
  • ControlSwitch runs on NEBS Level 3 compliant Sun Netra platforms running Sun Solaris operating system
  • ControlSwitch software can also run on other SUN platforms running Sun Solaris operating system