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Extended Control Plane

The Summa Networks Converged Control Plane combines HLR, HSS, EIR, PCRF, AAA and full 5G SA functions in a single carrier-grade SDM — flexible licensing, cloud-native ready, from 2G to 5G SA.

The Extended & Converged Control Plane solution

The Converged Control Plane for Your 5G Transition

When it comes to having your own Subscribers Data Management system, it is essential to find a provider with a complete state-of-the-art solution offered in a flexible licensing model with outstanding customer service.

Our carrier-grade SDM software allows seamless migration and interworking between the different access technologies through a flexible commercial model: classical CAPEX (perpetual licence and annual maintenance), OPEX (monthly capacity payments) always based on ACTIVE subscribers, so we are back to back with your business, we offer you a transparent and scalable solution that grows with your business success. We protect your business and your investment with a future-proof roadmap. Finally, our support is built on attention to detail, technical excellence and full availability to our customers.

Our main principles, built to ensure a long-term relationship with our customers:

  • Flexible and adaptable to the needs of the customer. We work on open roadmap principles. We can serve from hundreds to millions of subscribers.
  • Transparent pricing to control total TCO. No feature redundancy and no lock-in into low price and expensive extensions.
  • Based on open standards and Open Source solutions to offer a cost-conscious carrier-grade solution. We can serve from hundreds to millions of subscribers.

As a result, we serve an ever-growing list of satisfied customers and subscriber bases.

Who uses it

Summa Networks SDM covers many different types of customers and solutions

  • Multi-IMSI, Multi-SIM businesses needing Multi-Instance features and extensive roaming solutions. Extended to 5G SA.
  • Carriers transitioning to 5G and beyond.
  • MVNOs becoming full MVNO.
  • MNOs RIP and Replace of legacy or High-Risk Vendors.
  • IoT communication providers.
  • VoLTE, VoWiFi enablement.
  • Private LTE Networks Subscribers Management.
  • Satellite communications companies.
  • 3G roaming outsourcing.

Architecture

Elements of Summa Networks’ Converged Control Plane

Elements of Summa Networks' Converged Control Plane

Single software solution

Single software solution for Converged Control Plane needs from 2G to 5G

Summa provides an excellent alternative for service providers facing the typical barriers of the traditional SDM products:

  • HLR, AuC, LTE HSS, IMS HSS, UDR, UDM, AUSF, UDSF in a single piece of software for a smooth interworking between all network generations.
  • Complete offering for GSM, UMTS, LTE, IMS, Wi-Fi and M2M networks.
  • Integrated AAA server and NSS-AAF.
  • Integrated EIR, DNS/ENUM, NEF.
  • Full PCRF and PCF.
  • Designed from scratch for scalability — accommodates millions of subscribers for MNOs while remaining cost-effective for smaller operators, MVNOs and P-LTE cores.
  • Robust, carrier-grade solution, vertical (same server) and N+1 scalable, high availability, geo-redundancy.
  • Convergence of subscriber information across access networks. Single subscription with unlimited number of profiles.
  • Support for multi-SIM, multi-IMSI, multi-MSISDN, multi-HPLMN/country, multi-profile and virtual routing instances.
  • Full API (WS and REST) to integrate with OSS/BSS and provisioning systems.
  • GUI for management including KPIs and link status.
  • Multi-tenant solution to support multiple carriers in a single instance.
  • Bare-metal deployment.
  • VMs (KVM, VMware…)
  • Docker, Kubernetes for cloud-native deployment.
  • Extensible and extendable framework to develop ad-hoc features.

Modular deployment

Or a modular solution to cover specific needs

The Summa Networks portfolio includes the below separate products, so they can be deployed as stand-alone:

  • Home Subscriber Server (HSS) for LTE Data.
  • Home Subscriber Server (HSS) for IMS Voice.
  • Home Location Register (HLR) and Authentication Center (AuC) for 2G/3G.
  • Equipment Identity Register (EIR).
  • Policy Control Resource Function (PCRF).
  • Authentication, Authorization and Accounting server (AAA).
  • DNS/ENUM.
  • Mobile number Portability (MNP).
  • 5G SA UDR/UDM/AUSF/UDSF.
  • 5G NSS-AAF.

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