Reef Point Systems Introduces Industry's First Comprehensive Suite of UMA Test Tools
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BOSTON, Dec. 5 / -- Reef Point Systems (http://reefpoint.com/) a leader in massively scalable security gateway solutions for the fixed mobile convergence market, announced today the company has developed the industry's first comprehensive suite of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) test tools that provides full end-to-end system integration and test capabilities. Until now, due to the new technologies involved and the extremely high scalability requirements, there have been no commercially available tools that could test production-scale implementations of UMA using the IKEv2 protocol.
"Successful implementation of converged networks such as UMA require the ability to test at significant scale," said Dennis Racca, Reef Point's vice president of engineering. "Until now, there have been no tools to enable operators to effectively do this. Reef Point's new test suite is a major step forward in making Fixed Mobile Convergence a reality."
Reef Point developed the iQ UMA Test Suite to fully stress and validate UMA implementations including simulating hundreds of thousands of mobile station endpoints and exercising the entire authentication infrastructure at scale. It is a fully integrated control and data plane test suite that runs on Reef Point's security gateway platform. The suite tests IPsec tunnel scalability and IKEv2 negotiation rate, simulates IKEv2 DoS attacks and performs line rate traffic forwarding across IPsec tunnels. Service providers can test deployment-specific scenarios with a variety of configuration options including rate-configurable tunnel setups and teardowns. Formatted reporting enables fast and accurate interpretation of results. The new suite supports the complete UMA/GSM infrastructure including authentication with RADIUS servers, accessing the GSM databases Visitor's Location Register (VLR) and Home Location Register (HLR) as well as load testing access to UNC services over secure IPsec tunnels.
Reef Point's iQ UMA Test Suite is available now to customers and select partners. Reef Point is also releasing a new white paper for operators, entitled "UMA Security: Scalability and Performance Testing." Contact Lisa Crewe at 781-359-5025 or lcrewe@reefpoint.com to receive a copy.
The Reef Point UMA Security Gateway
Reef Point Systems' purpose-built, carrier-class UMA Security Gateway provides comprehensive security for converged networks. Unlike other solutions, such as session border controllers, the Reef Point solution is massively scalable, securing up to half a million simultaneous connections. The gateway provides secure WiFi roaming and provides subscribers with confidentiality by encapsulating the call and signaling data in secure IPSec tunnels. It provides robust threat defense including stateful firewalls with Denial of Service attack prevention, intrusion detection services, custom firewall filtering, dynamic virtual routing with Network Address Translation, and session limiting to protect against external threats. With its uncompromising high-performance and reliability through Reef Point's patented Flow Application Streaming Technology(TM) and optimum mix of custom ASICs/FPGAs and network processors, the Multiservice Security Gateway supports Internet Key Exchange v2 (IKEv2) and Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for GSM Subscriber Identity Modules (EAP-SIM) to provide scalable mutual authentication, encryption and data integrity safeguards for signaling, voice, and data.
About Reef Point Systems
Reef Point Systems (http://reefpoint.com/) is a privately held company that delivers extreme security for a converged world. Reef Point supports the migration to global converged services by offering massively scalable, carrier-class multiservice security solutions for fixed mobile convergence networks. Reef Point's extreme security solutions enable service providers to secure the network infrastructure and protect multiple revenue streams, eliminate the cost and complexity of installing and managing separate devices, and reduce operating costs. Reef Point Systems is located in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Reef Point Systems, Extreme Security for a Converged World, iQ8000, iQ4000 and iQOS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Reef Point Systems. Other company names, product names and company logos mentioned herein are the trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Source: Reef Point Systems
CONTACT: Betsey Rogers of Red Javelin Communications, Inc. for Reef Point Systems, +1-603-886-7087, betsey@redjavelin.com
Web site: http://reefpoint.com/
