1. Mobicents IN SDP
by Elitnet
Vilius Panevėžys, Elitnet
Mobicents F2F 2011
December 5th, 2011

2. Company overview
Based in Lithuania
In business since 1998, founded by professionals working in
the area for over 20 years
Focusing on
Solution implementation and system integration services for
operators
Software product development specializing in
telecommunications
3rd and 2nd line support services
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3. Competence areas
Intelligent Networks
Service development
Integration, support
Consulting (FMC, IMS)
IP telephony
Soft PBXs (Asterisk-based)
CTI-based solutions (switchboard, CRM integration)
Call centers
Lawful interception systems
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4. Portfolio
Virtual PBX
Switchboard
Mobile VPN
Prepaid
Callback
Ringback Tone
SMS Relay
SMS Router
USSD Gateway
Short code translation (for roamers)
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5. Experience with other platforms
Amdocs jNetX OCFS
HP OpenCall
Openet FusionWorks
Asterisk
OpenIMS
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6. What brought us here?
Openness
Standards compliance (no vendor lock-in)
Cost efficiency
Development
Runtime
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7. Solution scheme
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8. TCAP Gateway
Takes care of levels up to and including TCAP, forwards
Invokes to JACC RA
Relies on Dialogic® SS7 stack
Communication with JACC RA via TCP/IP, custom ASN.1-
based protocol
No changes to switch to TDM
No changes in RAs other Mobicents components to switch
to another stack
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9. Advantages of the approach
Performance
Deployment flexibility
Increased stability of the platform (no Java-native bridge,
only network communication)
Mature, carrier-grade protocol stack
HA and fail-over solutions build upon stack features
No changes to switch to TDM
No changes in RAs other Mobicents components to switch
to another stack
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10. Java Advanced Call Control
Based on
JAIN JCC (JSR 21)
JAIN JCAT (JSR 122)
Extensions
Charging
User interaction
Features low-level interface (direct access to protocol
parser)
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11. Call Control Protocol Support
CAP 1
CAP 2
CAP 3
INAP CS1+
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12. MAP RA
Light API
Functional support
USSD
Messaging
Location
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13. Failover & Scalability
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14. Transparent deployment
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15. Clustered deployment
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16. Horizontally scalable deployment
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17. Production deployment
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18. Production deployment
Based on the transparent deployment scheme
Hardware/OS
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz
4 GB RAM
CentOS release 5.6 (Final) 64-bit
In production at a mobile operator since 2011-04 with zero
downtime
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19. Services in production
CallRegister
Prepaid
Cost Control
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20. Test tools
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21. Call Generator
Used for IN CS protocols
Built on Dialogic IN API
Supported protocols
CAP phase 1, 2, 3
INAP CS1
Extensible scenario support
Interface – CLI (easy integration in automated CI lab
setups)
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22. MAP Test tool
Relies on SS7 Gateway and Dialogic SS7 stack
Generates SMS or USSD load
Extensible via Java API
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23. Open issues
SMP
Nagios
RHQ
Service orchestration
RuleEngine
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24. Developer ecosystem
Value to developers (ISVs)
Easier to be found by the right people
Value to customers (end users of Mobicents-based
solutions)
Easy to find reliable partners
Value to Mobicents
Growth in platform popularity/usage, demand for support
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