LTE roaming and signaling in the Middle East and North Africa: the real value of Etisalat.

The LTE roaming trend moves forward progressively as the LTE adoption spreads rapidly around the world. In fact, as, a unique objective reference for organizations and professionals, when it comes to tools and solutions to draw value-added in their activities, Connectikpeople.co, recalls that, due to the global high demand of the mobility, the challenges of international LTE Roaming are becoming increasingly important, in terms of business opportunities and traffic.

Henceforth, Etisalat, one of the largest telecom operators in the Middle East and North Africa, paves its way with its new LTE roaming peering agreement with iBasis, a KPN company (international carrier and provider of data services and solutions for mobile

operators).

Connectikpeople.co observes that, Etisalat SmartHub IPX will peer with the iBasis LTE Signaling eXchange (LSX) for LTE roaming and signaling. The new LTE roaming peering agreement is built on the companies’ pre-existing IPX connections for GRPS roaming eXchange (GRX) and data services.

Meaning that, users can expect quality LTE experience. If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co recalls that:

·        The iBasis LSX and multi-service IPX aims to provide a comprehensive solution to the complexities of international roaming across 3G and 4G (LTE) networks through a single interconnect and ensure interworking between existing Signaling System 7 (SS7) networks and Diameter-based LTE networks,

·        The telecom protocol SS7 helps offload data traffic congestion onto a wireless or wireline digital broadband network.