PCI Express network interface card has scale

The Signalware XH0303 PCI Express network interface board allows communication system and service providers to adopt a new breed of modular, low-cost servers for the communications industry.Ulticom has announced the general availability of the Signalware XH0303 PCI Express network interface board. This new product complements Ulticom's current SS7 board offerings by allowing communication system and service providers to adopt a new breed of high-performance, modular, low-cost servers for the communications industry. When coupled with Ulticom's industry leading SS7 software, the Signalware platform provides a reliable, pre-integrated signaling solution for next-generation communication applications and infrastructure equipment.

The Signalware XH0303 is a purpose-built, low-profile high-density SS7 signaling controller configurable for narrow-band links and non-channelised high-speed links with the ability to scale from hundreds to thousands of transactions per second.

In addition, the XH0303 is upgradeable in the field allowing users to seamlessly expand network capacity for high demand services such as text messaging, global roaming, mobile VPN, and prepaid wireless.

'Advances in computing technology and the migration to IP networks necessitate the deployment of signaling end-points and gateways with higher throughput and high-speed connectivity', says Osman Duman, SVP and CMO for Ulticom.

'The XH0303 provides Ulticom's customers with an effective means to manage costs while responding to the changing network configuration and performance demands on their deployments'.

The Signalware XH0303 interface board is part of the Signalware platform providing a fault-resilient service-management environment and a complete suite of SS7 software protocol components.

Ulticom offers a lightweight subset of its Signalware SS7 software platform which provides an MTP2 API for customers implementing MTP3/MTP3b over either standard MTP2 or ATM SSCF-NNI.

The Signalware XH0303 SS7 interface board and Signalware SS7 software are component solutions to rapidly build and deploy applications within the switching, payment, mobility, messaging and location market segments.

With a highly configurable design and the ability to run large volumes of SS7 network traffic, the XH0303 can be used to satisfy a broad range of requirements for the most demanding communication applications.

Typical network elements that can use the XH0303 include home location registers, signaling gateways, softswitches, service control points, voice messaging platforms, SMS routers, and location servers.