NGN Adaptation Platform

IPgallery's NGN Adaptation Platform is a set of SW components mediating between different networks and application environments to create a converged ecosystem and solve multi-type, multi-vendor core-network and applications issues.

The NGN Adaptation Platform enables operators to rapidly upgrade their network to all-IP, deploy NGN (to learn more about IPgallery's NGN offering click here), and IMS services today while utilizing existing infrastructure and support systems (OSS/BSS), integrate NGN and IMS core network components into operator's existing environment and easily implement existing services such as Prepaid on NGN and IMS core networks.

By doing so, IPgallery allows its customers to significantly reduce their OpEx and CapEx, maximize ROI on their existing network infrastructure, and monitor their network upgrade investments.

IPgallery's NGN Adaptation Platform meets operational needs and provides operators with the flexibility to rapidly roll-out customized cost efficient advanced NGN and IMS services on existing networks with minimum effort.

The NGN Adaptation Platform consists of:

Tandem Routing Server (TRS)
The TRS performs network mediation functionalities delivering routing requirements generated by different network elements serving both telephony and multimedia applications: either initiated by traditional networks using a traditional telephone number, or a URI and URL address used by IP networks. The TRS plays an important role in hiding the network topology from its elements, thus making converged networks transparent to each other from a routing perspective. This allows service providers to easily introduce new switching nodes into the network, to move subscribers between switches or networks, to share resources of applications like Voice Mail, Video Conferencing etc., and only once to update the routing data in IPgallery’s TRS.

Application Mediation Server (AMS)
IPgallery’s Application Mediation Server (AMS) is a softswitch-based middleware designed to mediate between various Application Servers and existing multi-vendor switching environment (i.e. PSTN switches, Cellular MSC's and softswitches). IPgallery’s AMS provisions all contemporary services, requiring only minimal change in existing OSS/BSS and network configuration, and eliminates the need to adopt new protocols on both application server and network elements.
IPgallery’s AMS consists of the following components:

• Switch Mediator (SM) interacts with existing switches via SIP or TCAP
• Service Logic Function (SLF) describes the services needed to be activated by IPgallery’s AMS based on a programmable service logic definition mechanism
• Advanced Telephony Features & Services (ATF&S) a telephony application providing feature-rich telephony services
• Service Capability Interaction Manager (SCIM) coordinates service delivery among numerous application server platforms
• Protocol Broker converts multiple protocols (e.g. from SIP to TCAP, etc)

Subscriber Database Server (SDS)
IPgallery’s Subscriber Database Server (SDS) is a virtual centralized shared user database storing subscribers’ data and triggers to be used by network applications. By forming a centralized database for all applications (legacy and IP-based) IPgallery’s SDS creates a shared and unified subscriber’s profile enabling service providers to easily deploy new IMS services on today’s network while functioning as the HSS on IMS true networks. In Addition, the SDS is used in order to provision the HSS in a newly deployed IMS network.