DSC SWe Features

The following table lists some of the DSC SWe features.

Note

Unless otherwise specified, DSC SWe in this feature guide refers to the DSC SWe (on KVM), DSC SWe (on VMware), and DSC SWe (on OpenStack).

Note

Some DSC features are provided by default and others require licensing.

DSC SWe Features

Feature	Description
SS7 Applications	Supported Signaling Link Types (see Supported Link Types) SIGTRAN Links Core Signaling Transfer Point [(STP) (see Core Signaling Transfer Point)] Gateway Screening [(GWS) (see Gateway Screening and MSU Tracing)] Advanced Routing and Screening (see Advanced Routing and Screening) Global Title Translation [(GTT) (see Global Title Translation)] Signaling Gateway (see Signaling Gateway and Application Gateways) MTP Level 3 (MTP3) User Adaptation Layer (M3UA) Signaling Connection Control Part (SCCP) User Adaptation Layer (SUA) Point Code Emulation^TM [(PCE) (see Point Code Emulation)] Variant and Protocol Conversion (see Variant and Protocol Conversion) Operational (Data) Measurements [see Operational (Data) Measurements] STP Migration with the Level 4 Converter (see STP Migration with the Level 4 Converter)
Diameter Applications	Scale-ability for connections and [Transactions per Second (TPS)] Congestion Flow Control (refer to Congestion and Flow Control) Advanced Routing and Screening (refer to Diameter Edge Agent) Message Modification (refer to Configuring Modification Commands) Extensibility to other applications (refer to Diameter XML Interface) Virtualization and Multi-Instance (DSC Advantages) Security (refer to Security and Firewall) SS7 Integration (Architecture) Server Pools (refer to Configuring the Server Pools) Load balancing (refer to Configuring the Server Pools) Realm Routing (refer to Configuring Realm Routing) Network Security (refer to Configuring a Security Parameter Set) Diameter Edge Agent [(DEA) (refer to Diameter Edge Agent)] TLS/IPSec/DTLS (refer to TLS Provisioning Process) Topology Hiding (refer to Topology Hiding)
Protocols	SS7: MTP2, MTP3, SCCP, (ITU, ETSI, ANSI)
	IP/Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP): Message Transfer Part 2 Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (M2PA), Message Transfer Part 2 User Adaptation Layer (M2UA), Message Transfer Part 3 User Adaptation Layer (M3UA), Signaling Connection Control Part User Adaptation Layer (SUA)
	Diameter
	IPsec, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Recommended Hardware Requirements	For recommended hardware requirements, refer to the Software Installation Guides as follows: DSC SWe and vSP2000 (on KVM) Software Installation Guide DSC SWe (on VMware) Software Installation Guide DSC SWe (on OpenStack) Software Installation Guide
System Capacity	For system capacity, refer to Capacity and Performance.
Regulatory Compliance	For supported standards, refer to Supported Standards.
Other	Other DSC SWe features include the following: Shared code base with the DSC 8000 Topology Hiding Denial of Service/Distributed Denial of Service (DOS/DDoS) Protection Encryption at Scale High Availability High Scale Encryption Complete Redundancy with Automatic Failover Congestion Management Traffic Prioritization LTE Roaming to 2G/3G Protocol Mapping Seamless Authentication Scaleable and Redundant

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