Squire Technologies' DRA - The perfect replacement for legacy routing agents?

Squire Technologies DRA –
The perfect replacement for legacy routing agents?

Despite 5G steadily achieving 4% year on year growth and surpassing 3 billion connections, the world of 5G SA is still unclear on monetisation opportunities at full commercial scale. There is a strong consideration for operators to focus on quality of service, network efficiency, scalability, and the overall architecture of their current 4G/5G NSA core networks, to enable the best possible user experience and network resiliency.

Squire Technologies’ Diameter Routing Agent (DRA), is a leading replacement for first and second generation diameter routing agents because it offers a modern, software-based, virtualised solution that provides central control, comprehensive traffic management, and advanced mediation to seamlessly connect multi-generation (3G/4G/5G) networks. It enables a seamless transition from hardware-reliant systems to virtualised environments, reducing operating costs and footprint, while providing high-volume load balancing and security capabilities along with forward facing compatibility for 5G SA integration when needed.

Capabilities

The SVI-DRA’s core capabilities make an ideal replacement, core functions include:

Network Simplification: It acts as a central connection point for trusted and non-trusted diameter peers, replacing the complex “mesh” of point-to-point connections common in legacy setups with a centralised routing architecture.
Virtualisation & Cloud Deployments: The SVI-DRA is deployable across a variety of environments, ranging from bare metal servers to cloud-based CNF, which gives operators flexibility when considering against their infrastructure policies for security and consideration of data sovereignty.

Converged Signalling Control: SVI-DRA provides a centralised solution for 4G/LTE and IMS networks, handling complex routing and load balancing to prevent congestion and signalling storms with granular control of remote peers and insight into network health.

Protocol Interworking & Compatibility: It provides critical interworking functions (IWF) that can bridge legacy 2G/3G (SS7) networks with modern 4G/LTE (Diameter) and 5G (HTTP/2) environments. This ensures forward and backward compatibility without needing to overhaul existing infrastructure.

Advanced Mediation and Manipulation: The DRA includes a powerful onboard mediation engine “DSSME” that enables advance manipulation and signalling control to harmonise disparate and variable signalling from different vendors, effectively eliminating vendor lock-in.

Dynamic Traffic Management: With IoT, LTE and IMS, huge signalling volumes transit the networks of today, therefor it is critical to be able to dynamically manage traffic, when considering the load on networks. The DRA features sophisticated load balancing and throttling capabilities to manage these high-volume traffic loads and prevent network congestion or “signalling storms” that often overwhelm legacy systems.

Carrier-Grade High Availability: The solution offers resilient architecture and geo-redundancy, giving robust reliability with configurable redundancy options, ensuring continuous service during network transformations.

Case Study Highlights

These are examples of the customers who utilise our Diameter Routing Agent:

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With nearly a quarter of a century of experience in providing innovative core signalling solutions.

With deployments throughout the globe, Squire Technologies brings deep expertise and hands-on experience in designing and deploying networks across a wide range of environments.

We have built a strong reputation throughout the industry for solving complex signalling challenges by combining advanced interworking technology with a comprehensive portfolio of proven, carrier-grade core network solutions.

As operators face growing network complexity and diversity, our converged signalling platforms enable them to streamline operations, manage signalling seamlessly across multiple networks, and deliver services more efficiently to both new and existing customers.