{"id":957,"date":"2018-09-05T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squire-technologies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2023-06-07T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T10:47:41","slug":"how-a-diameter-routing-agent-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squire-technologies.co.uk\/blog\/how-a-diameter-routing-agent-works","title":{"rendered":"How a Diameter Routing Agent Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/squire-technologies.co.uk\/products\/diameter-routing-agent\">Diameter Routing Agent<\/a> sits at the heart of a Diameter network. It provides scalable, centralised routing of Diameter messages in a multi-vendor, multi-node environment within a service providers IMS and LTE core.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve produced a short video to provide an overview of how the DRA works&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRFLxFQaNfk\" width=\"750\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squire-technologies.co.uk\/products\/diameter-signalling-controller?utm-source=HowDRAworksBlog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-959 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/squire-technologies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/svi_dra-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/squire-technologies.co.uk\/products\/diameter-routing-agent\">Diameter Routing Agent<\/a> is the central routing point in any Diameter network providing flexible routing and message manipulation to insure inter-op between multiple devices and device vendors. 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