Comptel Plus (Spring 2015) Day 1 Show Daily

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COMPTELPLUS | Monday, April 13, 2015 Beka Publishing, 18
DAY 1
Accedian Networks has begun ship-
ping its network function virtualization
(NFV)-based vCPE solution for advanced,
network wide monitoring without the
need for expensive, high-end test equipment.
The SkyLIGHT VCX controls virtual network
functions (VNFs) on “bite-sized” programmable
hardware modules. The solution is a unique virtual
customer equipment (vCPE) approach that realizes
the cost and agility benefits of NFV without sacri-
ficing performance, precision or requiring changes to
existing operations infrastructure or procedures.
By eliminating key cost, scalability and coverage
barriers to network performance visibility, service
providers can ensure a better quality of experience
(QoE) for users in a more cost-effective manner.
Accedian’s vCPE solution offers the same perfor-
mance as legacy, stand-alone hardware appliances
but within hardware modules that are up to 70
percent less expensive, draw 90 percent less power
and require no rack-space at the customer premises.
“SkyLIGHT VCX is radically more efficient
approach to network performance monitoring, fusing
the best NFV-based engineering principles with
the highest-performing programmable processing
yet available,” said Keith Donahue, vice president
of product management and services for Accedian
Networks. “It retains the minimum hardware required
at each monitoring point, while using NFV to turn
ultracompact modules into full-blown test sets,
probes, and analyzers.”
Since 2005, Accedian has delivered platforms
assuring hundreds of thousands of cell sites globally.
It is recognized as a performance assurance solution
specialist for mobile networks and enterprise-to-data
center connectivity.
Open, multivendor interoperable and programmable
solutions go beyond standard-based performance assur-
ance to deliver Network State+, the most complete view
of network health. Automated service activation testing
and real-time performance monitoring feature unrivalled
precision and granularity, while H-QoS traffic conditioning
optimizes service performance.❏
Accedian will provide live demonstrations of the
SkyLIGHT VCX solution in booth 118. For more informa-
tion, go to
Accedian Shipping NFV-Powered vCPE
T ransNexus, an innovator in VoIP manage-
ment solutions since 1997, released Shield,
a dynamic new tool for preventing telecom
fraud attacks stemming from the use of
premium rate numbers.
“Hacking PBXs and pumping traffic to premium
rate numbers has become more lucrative to fraud-
sters as businesses transition to SIP trunking,” said
Jim Dalton, founder of TransNexus. “The prolifera-
tion of SIP hacking tools, hacking tutorials on the
Internet and an abundance of websites offering
premium rate number services with convenient
revenue sharing provide a complete ecosystem that
makes traffic pumping fraud an easy endeavor for
quick cash.”
Shield contains a preloaded, comprehensive blacklist
of 100 premium rate number providers and more than
50,000 known international premium rate number
ranges covering millions of numbers. The blacklist is
updated weekly and includes high-risk numbers identi-
fied fromTransNexus honeypots and other sources.
Customers can enhance their Shield application
by uploading a custom set of blacklist and white list
numbers into the product.
Shield is integrated seamlessly into the inno-
vative least cost routing, fraud prevention, and
fraud detection solutions that TransNexus offers.
The merge with the NexOSS-FC, NexOSS, and
SDReporter solutions allows calls being made to
premium rate numbers in the Shield application to
be blocked or diverted automatically.
“Fraudsters can collect tens of thousands of dollars
per day through the use of premium rate numbers”
Dalton said. “Fraud detection and control is critical,
but preventing fraud before it happens is even better.
“Businesses are looking for a preventive measure
to protect their network, and Shield is the additional
layer of security that will further mitigate fraud risk
and prevent fraud attacks,” he continued. “When the
Shield database is combined with the SIP Analytics
of our NexOSS-FC product, fraudulent calls can be
blocked at your session border controller before they
can enter network.”
TransNexus is a software development company
specializing in applications for fraud detection, dynamic
least cost routing, number portability, traffic and profit-
ability analysis for Voice over IP networks.
While TransNexus maintains interoperability part-
nerships with strategic vendors such as BroadSoft,
Metaswitch, Oracle Acme Packet and Taqua, the
TransNexus solution is interoperable with any SIP
based VoIP system. ❏
For more information about Shield and otherTrans-
Nexus production visit booth 521 or go to
Minimize Toll Fraud Risk with Shield
‘Fraud detection
and control is
critical, but
preventing fraud
before it happens
is even better.’
— Jim Dalton,TransNexus