Diametriq (IntelliNet Technologies) Now Focused on Diameter Signaling

 
IntelliNet Technologies, one of the first companies to offer Diameter Signaling Routing, is now dedicated to the space.

The company, now named Diametriq announced that it ".. was launched today to focus on “Smart Signaling” solutions and meeting the ever increasing signaling traffic demands of 4G/LTE networks. The new company is derived from key assets including executive leadership, engineering, and technologies from IntelliNet Technologies, a wireless networks convergence company".

The Diameter Signaling Routing made an impressive progress in its short existence. Recent milestones were the acquisition of Traffix by F5 (here, and "F5 CEO Happy with Traffix" - here), significant deals for Tekelec (here, here, here) and new players (Ulticom, Alepo). My Diameter Router Product page (here) was updated accordingly.

"Anjan Ghosal (pictured), CEO of IntelliNet Technologies and a veteran of the telecom industry, successfully spun out IntelliNet’s Mobile Data Offload business last year to Ruckus Wireless of San Jose, California .. For this new venture Ghosal has teamed up with industry veterans Kumar Ramalingam heading up Product Development, Chris Knight, Product Management, and Dan Wonak, Marketing and Operations".

See "Diametriq™ Delivers a Unique Approach for Managing LTE Control Traffic" - here.

Radware Adds Support for Diameter Routing and Load Balancing

   
The Diameter routing market looks good recently, with product announcements from a number of vendors, large wins (Tekelec announced it received $20M and $13M orders in during October - here) and start-up funding (Traffix Systems).

Vendors in this space (here) come from different disciplines. The majority have background in the Diameter world itself (Tekelec, Traffix, Openet, IntelliNet Technologies), some specialize in IP traffic management (F5 and now Radware) or other, maybe similar, markets (Acme Packet).

Most likely not all vendors support all possible use-cases and features, as each focuses on features resulting from its background and prior technology.

Customers should therefore examine their needs when comparing solutions and bids, certainly when more specific Diameter issues are concerned.

  

Radware, a traffic management player, is now added to my product list. The vendor has released several solution papers showing how its  AppDirector and AppXcel products may be used to improve Diameter servers performance.

See "Fault-tolerant AAA HSS/DIAMETER Services across IMS Framework" - here.

Radware introduced the following solutions:

• DIAMETER messaging redirection and load distribution
• DIAMETER high availability
• DIAMETER burst distribution and service responsiveness
• DIAMETER virtualization and global disaster recovery
• DIAMETER consolidation and scalability for CAPEX/OPEX savings

Source: Radware

[Exact Ventures]: Diameter Router Market "will double each year through 2016"

    

While the diameter signaling router/controller (or policy exchange controllers) is still young and small market (see "Diameter Routing Explained" - here), it has already gotten the attention of Exact Ventures,  a technology market intelligence company, founded in 2011.

Obviously, the recent $20M Verizon Wireless-Tekelec deal (here, here) is a major recognition and driver for this market, as well as other deals announced this year (Traffix Systems). Other solutions are available from Acme Packet, IntelliNet Technologies and Openet (see the full list here).  

Exact says that "The extraordinary growth in smartphone-based signaling traffic plus the growing number of network nodes that require signaling are creating an urgent need for a new signaling infrastructure. According to the report, the emerging DSC market is forecast to more than double each year through 2016 due to very strong growth in network signaling traffic driven primarily by LTE-based smartphones. Growth revenues from software license shipments over the next 5 years will be partially offset by an almost 20 percent yearly price erosion over the same period as the market becomes more competitive and as products become more cost effective due to economies of scale".

Greg Collins (pictured), Founder and Principal Analyst at Exact Ventures says: “Any failures of the signaling system can spell disaster for the network operator in the form of network outages, poor performance, and system latency, resulting in subscriber churn and lost revenues".

See "Diameter Signaling Controller Market to Skyrocket Through 2016, According to Exact Ventures" - here and more details on the research - here.