A disaster recovery plan covers the data, hardware, and software critical for a business to restart operations in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster, including power failures, computer viruses, legal issues, and worker strikes. It should also include plans for coping with the unexpected or sudden loss of key personnel. The analysis phase […]

A Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) is a functional element in a 3G or 4G (such as LTE) network that provides real-time routing capabilities to ensure that messages are routed among the correct elements in a network. The DRA was introduced by the 3GPP to address the increased Diameter signaling traffic and growing complexity of 4G LTE networks.

A Diameter load balancer distributes signaling traffic across multiple servers in a network. This load balancing capability is essential for service providers (SPs) to achieve high scalability and availability.

Data integrity refers to the need to ensure that data remains valid and accurate, with alterations only through authorized processes. A wide variety of factors can impact data integrity, from security to breaches to hardware failures, causing sensitive data to be lost or compromised. Protecting enterprise data assets across dozens of applications and hundreds of […]

Data layer security describes the inspection of data packets to detect attempts to compromise network applications. In this context, data layer security and application layer security are synonymous.

Delivery networking describes a system of computers networked together across the Internet that cooperate transparently to deliver content (commonly referred to as a Content Delivery Network). Requests for content are intelligently directed to nodes that are optimized for performance to ensure that applications are readily available. Also see Application Delivery Networking.

Denial of service (DoS) usually refers to an attack that attempts to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users by flooding a network or server with requests and data. It can also simply refer to a resource, such as e-mail or a Web site, that is not functioning as usual. Often, the denial […]

A Diameter Edge Agent provides the extra security service providers require to connect securely with third-party partners when needed and share resources, such as in roaming and billing use cases. It does this by enabling Diameter signaling messages to flow smoothly among networks while also adequately disguising the topology of both networks.

Diameter interfaces provide connections among Diameter nodes to enable essential service provider network functions such as authentication, online and offline billing, and policy and charging.