NGN Gateways & Application Servers

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NGN Gateway Systems

Access/Residential Gateway Network Access Gateway (including Firewall, NAPT, DHCP etc.) "edia Gateway
esidential !order Gateway Access#Trunk "edia Gateway

adio Gateway ! A$ (!road%and e&ote Access $er'er) Softswitch Call $er'er, $ession Controller $ignalling Gateway including "edia Gateway Controller PSTN Gateway P$TN (&ulation and $i&ulation Trunk and Border Gateway )nterconnection !order Gateway Application Server Gateway Parlay#*$A Gateway *+erAP) Gateway

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Transport Resource/Policy Control System

Trans+ort Policy "anage&ent $yste& including PDF#P(F "ulti&edia esource Controller or esource "anager !andwidt, !roker and !andwidt, "anager H- #.- , HA#FA etc. -ocation $er'ice Control $yste&

o$ility Support System

-ocation Control $er'er

Packet Gateway Control System

Network Access Control System

.arious Gateway Controller including "edia Gateway Controller Ad&ission Control and gate control syste& DHCP $er'er, NAPT, Firewall etc

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& S"$ased Session Control System

P/#)/#$/C$PF $ession Control Pro0y $yste& (i.e., P/C$CF, Pro0y .o)P Gateway, etc) )"$/"G1 ("edia Gateway) and )"$/"GC ("edia Gateway Controller) )"$/ esource Controller

'ser Profile (ata$ase System

)ncluding Trans+ort#$er'ice#Ter&inal#2ser Aut,entication and Aut,orisation $yste&
AAA $er'er, H$$ etc.

2ser (and Ter&inal) registration syste& $u%scri+tion -ocation

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Char!in! and Billin! System

C,arging Trigger and C,arging Collection $yste& *nline C,arging $yste& including ating syste& Account "anage&ent $yste&

Traffic

ana!ement Server

Tra33ic "anage&ent $yste&

Application Control Server

!roadcast Control $er'er Ho&e Gateway Control $er'er F)D Control $er'er "ulti&edia A++lication Control $er'er

NGN Application Systems

*ome Gateway
)ncluding intelligent Ho&e ser'er $T! "anage&ent $er'er

edia Resource Processin! Server

"edia esource and Processing Gateway "ulti&edia esource Function Processor

Application Server
)nteracti'e A++lication $er'er or $)P/%ased A++lication $er'er "essaging $er'er, Presence $e'er, Con3erence $er'er .oD $trea&ing $er'er, )P/T. or D"! $er'er *$A A++lication $er'er F)D $er'er, Tele&atics $er'er 1e% Hosting $er'er

Gateway Controller
The Gateway Controller is one o3 t,e key 3unctional units o3 t,e $o3tswitc,. T,e Gateway Controller ,olds t,e call +rocessing rules, %ut uses t,e "edia Gateway and $ignaling Gateway to +er3or& t,e 4o%. )t is t,e res+onsi%ility o3 t,e $ignaling Gateway to +er3or& call set/u+ and teardown. )n addition, it inter3aces to t,e *$$ and !$$ syste&s. *3ten t,is unit is re3erred as Call A!ent or edia Gateway Controller interc,angea%ly. $o&eti&es t,e Call Agent %y itsel3 is re3erred as a $o3tswitc,. T,is co&+onent co&&unicates wit,in ot,er +arts o3 t,e $o3tswitc, and also t,e e0ternal networks using di33erent +rotocols.
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Gateway Controller
T,e Gateway Controller is res+onsi%le 3or %ridging networks wit, di33erent c,aracteristics, including t,e P$TN, $$5, and )P networks. T,is %ridging 3unction in'ol'es 'alidation and initiation %e3ore esta%lis,ing +,one connections. )t is res+onsi%le 3or &anaging 'oice and data tra33ic t,roug,out t,e 'arious networks. )t is o3ten re3erred to as a 6Call A!ent7 (%ecause o3 its Call control &essaging 3unctions). Also is re3erred to as a 6 edia Gateway Controller7 (%ecause o3 its "edia Gateway Control 3unctions).

Functional e8uire&ents Gateway Controller

Call control en!ine +oice call esta$lishment protocols, *-)%). S&P edia control protocols, GCP. e!aco *-%/0 Class of service and 1uality of service control SS2 control protocol, S&GTRAN 3SS2 over &P4 SS2 processin! 3when usin! Si!Tran4 5oS related protocol messa!e handlin! such as RTCP

Functional e8uire&ents Gateway Controller

! outing co&+onent9 local dial +lan ((:;< to +ort &a++ing) ! Digit analysis o'erla+ and#or in%lock signaling ! Digit translation su++ort 3or )P, F , AT" and ot,er networks

outing, including9

Call Detail ecords (CD ) 3or %illing !andwidt, &anage&ent control Pro'isioning 3or "edia Gateways9

Pro'isioning 3or $ignaling Gateways9

! ! ! ! $$5 'ariants Process Ti&ers -inkset con3iguration Point code or routing con3iguration

! Assign&ent and real ti&e con3iguration o3 D$P resources ! D$= c,annel assign&ents ! .oice trans&ission (coding, co&+ression, and +acketi>ation)

Gatekee+er registration

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$yste& C,aracteristics Gateway Controller

)t is CP2 intensi'e. A &ulti/+rocessor syste& is &ost +re3erred A large in/&e&ory data%ase re8uired A large &e&ory ca+acity will also ena%le &ulti+le +rocesses to li'e in &e&ory wit,out e0cessi'e +aging acti'ity. )t deals &ostly wit, )P tra33ic A su33icient a&ount o3 ,ig,/s+eed connecti'ity &ay %e re8uired A dual/redundancy a++roac, 3or network connecti'ity is nor&ally re8uired )t re8uires su++ort 3or a 'ariety +rotocols Disk storage is +ri&arily used 3or logging
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