CellGlide Uses Adax signalling controllers to test its GPRS Solutions



Controllers help to test and improve GPRS Mobile Traffic Shaper



Reading, UK-/July 29, 2004 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- CellGlide, the leading provider of telco-grade mobile traffic shaping solutions for GPRS, EDGE and UMTS mobile networks, today announced it has used Adax signalling controllers to help test and improve its GPRS Mobile Traffic Shaper? (MTS). The company built a low cost SGSN platform, which incorporates the Adax ACT4-PCI and HDC-PCI Combo MTP2 cards, to simulate different mobile network deployments in the lab.

The cards provided a cost-effective signalling interface and robust testing reference for the platform and were quickly and easily integrated with the existing GPRS and SS7 stacks. This enabled CellGlide to reduce the cost and time taken to develop the SGSN simulator and its MTS product.


The CellGlide GPRS MTS is a core data-network product, so its development and testing would normally require a complex multi-million dollar captive lab environment. The Adax-based SGSN simulator platform could be easily scaled and/or replicated to create complex mobile network deployment configurations. This allowed CellGlide to conduct sophisticated testing in-house, removing the high cost and inconvenience of using external testing facilities to develop their MTS product.


?We were looking for a robust signalling platform that could be easily integrated with our GPRS and SS7 stacks,? said Dr. Aharon Satt, Chief Technology Officer at CellGlide. ?The Adax products offered a solid testing reference platform with an attractive price-per-port. This low-cost easy-integration testing infrastructure enabled us to quickly build an extensive captive environment, which in turn helped reduce product development time.?


The ACT4-PCI card is a four port, high density, channelled HDLC board that provides a cost-effective solution for Next Generation Networks and traffic monitoring applications. The card can handle multiple protocols including X.25, Frame Relay, LAPB, LAPD, HDLC and LAPV5, providing up to 1,024 DS0s and increasing call capacity in a single system.


The HDC-PCI Combo card is a high density, multiple protocol, channelled controller for wireless, wireline and converging PSTN/IP network platforms. It offers support for both traditional SS7 and SIGTRAN protocols for SS7 over IP, making it the ideal product for Signalling Gateways and Media Gateway Controllers, in addition to SGSNs, GGSNs, MSC and BSS nodes in GPRS networks.

About Adax Europe Ltd.
Adax is the industry leader in signalling infrastructure for next generation networks. It provides high performance end-to-end signalling solutions across SS7, IP and ATM networks. Adax has an extensive product set which includes signalling communications controllers and protocol software; integrated signalling protocol stack solutions with partners; and complete signalling gateways. The company's products are standards-based, flexible and portable to meet diverse customer requirements and provide interoperability. This enables OEMs and integrators to deploy their signalling application, node or system as quickly and efficiently as possible irrespective of the underlying network interface or architecture.



Adax provides signalling solutions for the world's leading communications companies, including Lucent, Nortel, Ericsson, Alcatel, Hughes Software Systems and CCPU. Typical application areas include Signalling, Voice over IP (VoIP), Media Gateways; Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) and Serving GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN) nodes for GPRS and 3G; Intelligent Networks; Base Station Control; Billing Mediation. http://www.adax.com



About CellGlide
CellGlide is the leading provider of telco-grade mobile traffic shaping solutions that enable operators to deliver predictable, reliable, and billable data services over mobile data networks. Using the CellGlide GPRS Mobile Traffic Shaper, operators reap immediate ROI benefits by employing service differentiation, mobile SLAs, rich media streaming, and other 3G-like services using available 2.5G network infrastructure. CellGlide maintains sales and support facilities in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.



Installed at the edge of the core network, the CellGlide solution allocates cell resources in real-time, based on available cell capacity, specific service characteristics, and operator service policies. Complementing the functionality of existing network service nodes, the CellGlide MTS provides operators with unprecedented visibility of service performance over the mobile data network, and allows for accurate, cost-efficient network dimensioning decisions. By assuring predictable, reliable and billable GPRS services, and a significantly enhanced Quality of User Experience (QoE), operators can reap immediate ROI benefits from existing network infrastructure. http://www.cellglide.com