1460 - Regulatory Requirements
Introduction
Newport Networks offers a complete Lawful Interception solution for VoIP service providers. Our solution enables service providers to meet existing and pending regulatory requirements for the FCC in the USA and national requirements within Europe.
It has become increasingly clear recently that VoIP services will be expected to provide Lawful Intercept and Emergency Call Handling services to the same level experienced in the PSTN. The FCC in North America for example has mandated that both emergency calls and Lawful Intercept must be available; the deadline for achieving CALEA Lawful Intercept compliance is May 2007. Whilst not all countries mandate this capability, any network operator building a publicly available voice or multimedia over IP service today will need to plan a network which is flexible enough to implement these regulatory services in the future. In addition, multimedia services provide additional information on the user which may be useful to agencies, for example; picture id, video, or instant messaging. This will expand the regulatory requirements placed on the operator. The Newport Networks 1460 provides the following regulatory services today:
1. Lawful Interception: must be performed without the user being aware of any change in their normal communications. With media and signalling passing through the Newport 1460 and intercept occurring on the core network side of the device, intercept can be performed in a completely undetectable manner. Newport's solution is a complete turn-key system providing VoIP service providers with CALEA or ETSI compliant lawful interception capabilities. The solution provides the Intercept Access Point (IAP), the Administration Function and the Mediation Function.
Intercept related information (to, from etc) and media information is passed into the mediation device to format the retrieved data into national requirements. The Newport Networks Lawful Intercept implementation meets and exceeds the requirements of CALEA and ETSI. Please contact us for country specific information. For additional information on Lawful Intercept architecture and components please see the Lawful Intercept Overview White Paper.
2. Emergency Call Handling: The 1460 can be configured to identify emergency calls and forward them on to a SIP Proxy that is able to route emergency calls. To provide a complete solution, emergency calls must be carried under all traffic load conditions. This capability is provided by an enhanced Session Admission Control algorithm which ensures that emergency calls will never be rejected whilst maintaining QoS for all users.
The Newport Networks 1460 provides these regulatory features from its carrier grade platform ensuring that carrier grade performance and availability come as standard.
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