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Telefónica Argentina Launches Signaling Firewall Provided by Mavenir

by businesswireindia.com

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Mavenir, a leader in accelerating software network transformation and transforming mobile network economics for communications service providers (CSPs), and Telefónica Argentina have deployed Mavenir’s Signaling Firewall to protect its customers and signaling infrastructure by detecting and preventing signaling-based attacks. The signaling fraud solution prevents the network from signaling hacks, distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), protects customer information from being intercepted and improves user experience. Denying stacks also protects operator resources from being used unnecessarily and even from overload conditions that shouldn’t exist (high capacity and distributed attacks).

 

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The deployment of a signaling firewall in the Telefónica Argentina network will handle SS7 and Diameter-based signaling coming in from abroad and other networks.

 

Mavenir’s solution enables Telefónica Argentina to protect their customers and the network from potential hackers while tracing their origin. The Signaling Firewall with its intuitive GUI and reporting capabilities allows Telefónica Argentina to stay ahead of the potential threats and provide sufficient level of protection to their customers. In addition, Mavenir SMART (Security Management and Response Team) team is helping to interpret the signaling data, attack suspects and enforce blocking rules.

 

“We are excited to support Telefónica Argentina and their commitment to protecting customer security through the implementation of our entire security portfolio,” said Pardeep Kohli, President and CEO of Mavenir. “By adding the Signaling Firewall to the existing solutions in place protecting customers against fraud, privacy attacks, phone-call and messaging interceptions, Telefónica has best-in-class network security using AI and machine learning (ML) to continually evolve and better protect their customers.”

 

“We have a long-standing relationship with Telefónica Argentina, having launched the Anti-Spam solution and now the follow-on with Signaling security,” said Ilia Abramov, GM Security BU at Mavenir. “So now Telefónica Argentina has our complete suite of security products and we are committed to providing protection to Telefónica Argentina signaling networks for the current generation of networks as well as supporting evolution towards next generation architectures.”

 

Mavenir’s Signaling Firewall is one of the most mature Signaling Firewall products in the market and includes high speed signaling stacks, intuitive GUI for the filtering and detection rules as well as elements of machine learning for the detection and prevention of the complicated distributed attacks. Built-in reporting capability enables constant insight into the signaling traffic of mobile operator, that not only enables better understanding of detected attack nature but also helps improve operational KPIs and subscriber QoS.

 

Mavenir was selected for its expertise and knowledge of implementing and deploying security solutions and supporting services.

 

About Telefónica Argentina:

 

Telefónica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world by market capitalization and number of customers, which is supported by a comprehensive offer and the quality of connectivity provided by the best fixed, mobile and broadband networks. Telefónica is a growing company that offers a differential experience, based both on the values ​​of the company itself and on a public positioning that defends the interests of the client.

 

Present in 16 countries and with almost 357 million accesses, Telefónica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America, where it concentrates most of its growth strategy.

 

It operates commercially in Argentina under the Movistar brand and has a park of 23.8 million accesses, including fixed and mobile lines and connectivity, and a fiber optic transport network with a length of more than 35,000 kilometers.

 

With 28 years of uninterrupted presence in Argentina and a constant and growing investment strategy, the company leads the development of 4G and FTTH communications networks to bring new customers and better connectivity experiences.

 

The company (Telefónica-Movistar) has 15 thousand employees in Argentina.

 

About Mavenir:

 

Mavenir is the industry's only end-to-end, cloud-native Network Software Provider focused on accelerating software network transformation and redefining network economics for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) by offering a comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio across every layer of the network infrastructure stack. From 5G application/service layers to packet core and RAN – Mavenir leads the way in evolved, cloud-native networking solutions enabling innovative and secure experiences for end users. Leveraging industry-leading firsts in VoLTE, VoWiFi, Advanced Messaging (RCS), Multi-ID, vEPC, and virtualized RAN, Mavenir accelerates network transformation for more than 250+ CSP customers in over 130 countries, serving over 50% of the world’s subscribers.

 

We embrace disruptive, innovative technology architectures and business models that drive service agility, flexibility, and velocity. With solutions that propel NFV evolution to achieve web-scale economics, Mavenir offers solutions to help CSPs with cost reduction, revenue generation, and revenue protection. Learn more at mavenir.com

 

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Source: Businesswire
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