Freehold Township, NJ – May 23, 2011 – Traffix Systems, the Diameter control plane experts, today announced the establishment of its LTE Diameter Interoperability (IOT) lab and calls for vendors and service providers to participate in testing their products for Diameter conformance standards and for interoperability with specific service provider network requirements.

"The expertise that Traffix has garnered by developing Diameter protocol products since 2005 allows us to contribute time and resources to boost the LTE ecosystem to support service providers in satisfying their customers' mobile data demands," said Ben Volkow, CEO at Traffix Systems.

Interoperability testing is conducted to prove that end-to-end functionality between at least two communicating systems exists as required by those systems' defined base standards. The Traffix LTE Diameter Interoperability (IOT) lab allows for vendors to check for:

• Diameter conformance to the latest 3GPP standards
• Interoperability with other vendors or service providers 

Traffix is supplying a full LTE core environment including more than 50 Diameter interfaces for specific vendors' implementations and various simulators of PCRFs (Policy and Charging Rules Functions), charging applications, HSS, MME, GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) and packet gateways. In addition to conformance with standards, vendors can check performance measurements. 

"We believe that ours is the first interoperability testing facility to be established in the market for Diameter conformance standards and specifications. This step is essential in strengthening the LTE ecosystem around the globe. Therefore, we have made participation convenient by remote access and welcome vendors and service providers alike to take advantage of our expertise in Diameter signaling protocol," Volkow added.

The Traffix IOT Laboratory is located at its R&D Center located in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Interested participants are invited to contact IOT@traffixsystems.com.

About Traffix

Traffix is the Diameter control plane expert since 2005. Traffix leads the control plane market with a range of Diameter products deployed at over 100 operators worldwide. Traffix supports telecommunications service providers to build high capacity, high performance data networks for a cost-efficient path to 4G. For more information, visit www.traffixsystems.com