Mobile

From a global perspective, today 2G/3G/4G networks are addressing most parts of the Lawful Intercept warrants. The main challenges are the following:

• • Significant number of active warrants  this generates an enormous number of operations over the provisioning interface due to the following operations:
    • Activation / Deactivation
    • Daily Consistency Check
    • Suspension / Resumption

As an example, considering a network of 50 network elements to provision and 10,000 concurrent interception for an interception period of 1 month, and normal provisioning period of 8 hours and 5 days a week. This presents several challenges:

• First, considering only “Activation / Deactivation” operations, the “Warrant Administration” function of AQSACOM’s ALIS platform – ALIS-AF – has to process with 2 operations per minutes. The challenge is how to handle so many provisioning operations without a large Lawful Interception operation team?

• Secondly, for a network of 50 network elements, to process 10,000 provisioning operations within a normal provisioning generates a traffic of 100 single operations per minute or 1.5 operations per second to be processed. The challenge is how ALIS-AF can handle so many operations?

• • Huge number of LEMF/MC  generates routing performance

Interception on wireless network generates lot of events, IRI. If the configuration involves a large number of LEMF/MC, that impacts the routing performance.

The challenge is how to handle such routing performance without downgrading the overall performance?

• • Multi-vendor networks

Any medium to large mobile network includes equipment from different vendors. Today, Network Operators have the expertise and experience to build a multi-vendor network combining different equipment from different vendors. No one ties up networks to one vendor.

As such, AQSACOM has been the first and still the only one to have a platform able to combine several equipment technologies on the same hardware. ALIS platform doesn’t need a hardware for each technology.  Such flexibility allows not only a great saving in CAPEX and OPEX for our customers but also to be peace in mind for the introduction of new equipment technology on the Network.

To learn how ALIS platform address such challenges, please contact us