MediationZone™

Introducing dedicated publisher and subscriber agents within MediationZone, specifically engineered to seamlessly integrate with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), enhancing compatibility with AWS cloud services for customers operating in hybrid environments.

These specialized agents facilitate bidirectional communication between MediationZone and Amazon SQS, ensuring smooth messaging and data exchange within the AWS ecosystem.

The new agents provide users with enhanced control and flexibility in managing message queues, enabling efficient data processing and seamless integration with AWS services. By utilizing these agents, users can optimize their workflows, improve operational efficiency, and ensure reliable data transfer in AWS cloud environments.

Introducing support for SAP HANA for the Reference Data Management functionality within MediationZone. This feature enables users to query and edit data stored in SAP HANA databases directly from the MediationZone interface.

By providing access to managed data within SAP HANA, organizations benefit from enhanced efficiency in data manipulation and decision-making processes.

This integration simplifies operations by centralizing reference data management activities, ensuring compatibility with existing SAP HANA infrastructure, and facilitating real-time data access and editing capabilities.

This comprehensive revamp of the Kafka integration in MediationZone is aimed at increasing flexibility and simplifying management. The update includes a complete refactoring of the Kafka integration, featuring new collector and forwarder agents, support for subscribing to multiple topics per agent, with wildcard functionality.

Additionally, improved support for batch processes enhances efficiency in handling large volumes of data. The update also brings scale-out capabilities with automatic rebalancing, ensuring that multiple workflows can efficiently manage and process data in parallel.

The new revision brings significant improvements in configuration, management, and operation, making these aspects more user-friendly and efficient. These enhancements empower users to seamlessly integrate Kafka with MediationZone for optimized data processing and management.

The System Statistics feature in the Desktop UI for MediationZone enhances system monitoring and management by transitioning key functionalities from the previous java desktop (Swing) into the Desktop UI. Users can intuitively view, filter, and analyze system statistics, with capabilities to group and filter data, consolidating relevant historical information for specific Execution Contexts (ECs) and filtering to see only currently active picos.

The feature includes automatically updating charts and tables that display critical metrics such as Pico Heap Memory Usage, Pico Process CPU Usage, System Log errors, aborted workflows, unreachable picos, and pico response times. Users can refine their analysis by selecting time scales (minute, hour, day), applying formulas (average, maximum, minimum), and using zooming capabilities on the charts.

Additionally, users can customize chart instances by adding or removing measurement types, tailoring the data view to their needs. Hover-over functionality and direct links to tools like Pico Management and Execution Manager further enhance usability, providing real-time insights, efficient troubleshooting, and comprehensive system statistics.

The Logging Enhancements in MediationZone 9.3 introduce a new 'Log Filter' screen, providing users with the flexibility to adjust logging settings in real-time for individual or groups of picos. This feature enables users to swiftly modify logging levels and apply filters to specific packages as needed. When special logging configurations are no longer necessary, picos can be easily reset to their default settings.

Additionally, MediationZone 9.3 enhances the platform's quality and usability by ensuring comprehensive and accurate logging across all agents and components. This update includes a meticulous review and cleanup of existing logs to ensure consistency throughout the system.

Global search in the Desktop UI revolutionizes how users access configurations and code by providing a single search interface that retrieves results from all parts of the platform. It searches and provides results from configurations, APL, and Ultras, enhancing workflows and user experience.

This feature ensures quick, comprehensive, and accurate results, making it an essential tool for boosting efficiency and productivity.

The introduction of Amazon S3 Agents for Real-Time workflows in MediationZone provides a versatile and efficient solution for managing data.

This feature enables the real-time ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of data, supporting critical use cases such as immediate data processing, disaster recovery, and data backup. It also facilitates scalable data storage and seamless integration with analytics and machine learning platforms.

Previously available only for batch workflows, the inclusion of S3 agents for both batch and real-time workflows mirrors the capabilities of existing SFTP/SCP/FTP/Disk agents, ensuring comprehensive and flexible data management across different environments.

This unified approach not only optimizes costs but also provides businesses with the ability to handle large volumes of data, enabling quick access to actionable insights and supporting robust data operations.

Securing sensitive information, such as passwords, certificates, and keys, is a fundamental requirement in today’s digital landscape.

The integration with Google Cloud Secret Manager in MediationZone 9.3 provides centralized secret management, allowing users to securely store and retrieve secrets while associating them with specific environments.

This granular level of control ensures that only authorized individuals and systems can access the necessary credentials, offering a robust enhancement to overall security measures.

The new Dynamic Fields feature in the Aggregation Profile Advanced Properties tab enhances the flexibility and efficiency of MediationZone by allowing users to configure aggregation profiles using dynamic fields with the ${} syntax, similar to the existing functionality in Kafka and Couchbase Profiles.

This feature enables real-time performance tuning based on external files, eliminating the need for frequent workflow redeployment and maintenance windows. Users can dynamically adjust advanced properties, allowing for quick and responsive performance tuning, reducing downtime, and improving efficiency by streamlining workflow management. The ability to adjust properties on-the-fly ensures consistent performance by adapting to varying data loads and operational demands.

By centralizing configuration settings, the new feature simplifies the management of complex workflows and supports the implementation of best practices in performance tuning. With this enhancement, MediationZone provides users with a tool for efficient and effective workflow management, ensuring continuous operation and minimizing service interruptions.

The new feature to increase retention periods for logs in MediationZone addresses the critical need for extended log retention, ensuring compliance with stringent audit and compliance requirements such as SOX.

Previously, the System Log Cleaner task was limited to retaining log entries for a maximum of 99 days. This update enhances the system's capability by allowing users to set customized retention periods to meet specific organizational policies or industry regulations. Additionally, an optional system log archiving functionality can be implemented to offload older log data to disk storage, further optimizing database performance while preserving essential log records.

This feature ensures compliance with regulations, reduces operational overhead, prevents unnecessary database growth and associated costs, maintains system performance, and offers customizable retention periods tailored to meet various organizational requirements.

Introducing the OAuth Provider for REST, a robust authorization server designed to generate access tokens crucial for accessing REST APIs hosted by HTTP/2 server agents. This essential feature comes into play when the OAuth 2.0 Authentication feature is enabled in the HTTP/2 server agents.

Operating within a platform environment, the OAuth Provider for REST ensures the seamless provision of access tokens, elevating security measures for HTTP/2 server agents. This feature not only facilitates secure access to REST APIs but also enhances the overall integrity of HTTP/2 server agents, ensuring a reliable and fortified authentication mechanism within the platform environment.

Experience heightened security and streamlined authorization with the OAuth Provider for REST.

Introducing Git Import/Export – a feature designed to streamline version control, enhancing configuration management with ease. Responding to the increased demand for convenient and user-friendly version control, this functionality allows users to clone repositories directly from Git, import and export configurations seamlessly between MediationZone and Git, and effortlessly switch between Git branches.

Experience efficient version control with the ability to clone Git repositories, import/export configurations, and change Git branches directly from our platform.

This feature represents an enhancement to our existing capabilities. Previously, you had to write the Avro format definition in Ultra, compile, and save it in MediationZone. With this enhancement, we've introduced a more streamlined approach. The new Avro enhancement allows users to refer to external schema registries where the Avro format definition resides, eliminating the need for any internally saved definition in MediationZone.

This marks a significant shift as it's the first type of format definition that does not reside in MediationZone. Users now have the flexibility to incorporate multiple schema registries within a single workflow, such as distinct ones for the Decoder, Encoder, and APL functions.

This enhancement not only facilitates efficient data serialization using the Avro format but also ensures schema consistency across distributed systems. Leveraging Avro's compact binary format for encoding and decoding data, users can achieve heightened efficiency in data transmission and storage.

With integration into a centralized schema registry, compatibility issues are mitigated, promoting interoperability and reliability in distributed systems.

This feature allows a single 5G network function (NF) deployment to interface with multiple 5G core networks, simplifying management and reducing system resources requirements. Previously, each 5G core network required a dedicated 5G network function (NF) deployment, leading to increased complexity and resource usage.

This new approach streamlines network management and minimizes system resource requirements by allowing a single 5G NF to serve multiple core networks. In addition, a single 5G NF can now improve service continuity by having redundancy and failover capability across multiple 5G core networks.

MediationZone 9.2 introduces support for 3GPP Release 17, unlocking new features and improvements for next-generation 5G network solutions. This will allow for the enablement of features like enhanced network performance, improved positioning, and broader IoT applications.

Release 17 introduces features to handle new charging use cases, such as network slicing and non-public networks.

This allows operators to define and implement more granular charging models for these specialized network services.

Mail notify functions in APL have been around for a long time, and our customers use them frequently to create notifications directly from their workflows.

With the introduction of this functionality, users will now be able to use HTML within those emails and configure and template them as much as they would like.

Gone are the restrictions of plain text emails; instead, users can now design and template their messages to suit their needs. This update offers numerous benefits, including the ability to incorporate branding elements, add rich media, and create visually appealing templates.

Introducing an enhanced capability within MediationZone: the ability to configure and utilize inter workflow and Duplicate UDR detection without any reliance on the underlying disk storage. Tailored for cloud deployments, where file system access may be limited and storage prone to loss, this enhancement eliminates any dependency on the file system for inter workflow profiles.

By transitioning away from the underlying file system, this feature ensures a more streamlined and robust utilization of inter workflow in cloud environments.

Now, users can harness database storage for all data related to inter workflow, and the detection and handling of Duplicate UDRs, enhancing flexibility and resilience in their cloud-based deployments. Backup and restore processes are simplified as all data resides within databases, ensuring data integrity and facilitating seamless recovery in case of system failures.

In MediationZone 9.2, we introduced support for MariaDB. Users can now select tables available for querying and editing via the Reference Data Management dashboard or RESTful interface. This feature provides capabilities to query, edit, import, and export reference data directly from MariaDB, eliminating the need to switch between applications or interfaces.

In our continuous commitment to enhancing performance and scalability, we are excited to introduce an update to the Couchbase implementation within MediationZone

Leveraging the more recent Couchbase SDK, this update ensures a modernized and optimized experience for users relying on Couchbase NoSQL database storage for components such as Policy, Routing Control, Usage Management (Metering), Aggregation, and Distributed Storage.

The existing limitation on the number of available buckets (30) has prompted this update, addressing customer needs for increased support, specifically for scopes and collections. By updating the embedded Couchbase SDK Client, we aim to not only modernize the implementation but also to support new server-side features, ensuring a robust and scalable foundation for our users' Couchbase-integrated workflows.

We introduce a new processing agent for real-time workflow configurations, Streaming Telemetry. This new agent is a push-based mechanism designed specifically for collecting network performance data, providing a more responsive and efficient solution compared to traditional polling methods.

Operating through the gRPC protocol over HTTP/2, the Streaming Telemetry agent retrieves crucial router information (OSS data) in real-time, addressing critical needs in network performance monitoring.

By eliminating the inefficiencies associated with polling, this feature ensures a streamlined and accurate approach to collect network performance data, particularly from routers. The introduction of Streaming Telemetry signifies a significant leap forward in ensuring a more responsive and reliable network performance monitoring experience for our users.

Presenting an enhancement geared towards enhancing efficiency and optimizing resource utilization in typical 5G charging system implementations. Previously, our HTTP/2 agent's capability was confined to managing only one OpenAPI endpoint at a time, prompting the use of multiple agents for handling diverse endpoints. However, this method often led to increased memory usage and port allocation. In response, we've introduced the ability to configure multiple OpenAPI specifications (Profiles) within a single HTTP/2 Agent.

This empowers users to efficiently oversee multiple OpenAPI endpoints on the same port. By minimizing the requirement for additional resources and port reservations, this update simplifies system operations and bolsters overall efficiency.

The IPDR SP (Internet Protocol Detail Record - Streaming Protocol) agent is a powerful enhancement for real-time workflows. This feature supports users to process Usage Detail Records (UDRs) in real-time using Python scripting capabilities, providing flexibility and agility in data processing.

Organizations require timely access to actionable insights derived from real-time data to make informed decisions and stay competitive. However, traditional data processing methods may introduce delays in data analysis, hindering the ability to respond promptly to changing conditions or emerging opportunities.

This feature addresses the need for real-time data processing and insight generation. The IDPR SP agent not only streamlines real-time UDR processing but also provides a comprehensive solution for data collection and template customization, offering organizations the tools they need to extract actionable insights from their data promptly and efficiently.

Data Masking is a critical feature designed to safeguard Personal Identifying Information (PII) during distribution, ensuring compliance with stringent regulations and protecting sensitive customer data. Building on the significance of this functionality, our latest enhancement addresses customer requests to elevate existing Data Masking capabilities.

This update places greater control and flexibility in the hands of users by introducing advanced algorithms for computing masked values. The configuration options now include the standard random algorithm (current algorithm), a random function in base64 encoding, and the UUID Random Version 4 random algorithm.

This enhancement ensures a heightened level of customization, offering users a refined and comprehensive approach to masking sensitive data containing PII in various scenarios.

Simplify UI creation for tailored use cases with our latest feature designed to streamline the process, resulting in improved data insight sharing and enhanced workflow control.

This advancement brings forth a new processing agent that seamlessly interacts with workflow logic, offering a dynamic solution to expose custom Web UIs based on unique project specifications.

Experience a significant reduction in time and effort, making it faster and easier to deliver project and customer-specific Uis.

The latest upgrade to the Development Toolkit includes an exemplary data model for configuring 5G PCF Session Management Policy Rules, offering operators a clear template for defining policies.

Once compiled and integrated into the system, the configured data model becomes accessible within the user-friendly Desktop Online interface's PCC Extensions section.

This feature simplifies the configuration process, providing operators with greater control over network policies and facilitating improved network performance, enhanced user experience, and better alignment with business objectives.

MediationZone now features an integration that allows MySQL Cluster to serve as a comprehensive data repository for Policy and Charging Control (PCC). This advancement brings a unified approach to data management, simplifying the architecture of PCC and optimizing its performance.

MySQL Cluster's scalability and reliability enhance the system's capabilities, enabling telecom operators to efficiently handle increasing data volumes while ensuring high availability. Administrators can effortlessly configure PCC using MySQL Cluster, providing flexibility in defining and managing policies and charging controls.

This integration not only streamlines data processing but positions PCC as a more adaptable, efficient, and performance-optimized component within telecommunications networks.

Introducing the HTTP Proxy Routing feature in MediationZone, organizations can now route outgoing HTTP traffic through an HTTP proxy, addressing the challenges of limited internet access in specific network setups.

Operational reliability remains uninterrupted, even in environments with restricted internet access, allowing for continuous data processing capabilities.

The feature accommodates network isolation requirements, offering a controlled route for outgoing traffic, and proves adaptable to varied use cases, from environments with strict security policies to isolated network setups.

KPI Management is designed to empower users to transform extensive raw data into actionable insights suitable for multi-dimensional analytics. This feature supports customers dealing with diverse data sources and requiring real-time insights by offering a comprehensive solution.

In MediationZone 9.1, KPI Management with distributed storage is introduced as an enhancement. By integrating with a Spark cluster, users can now utilize distributed storage as an alternative to non-distributed in-memory storage, allowing for seamless scalability and high-performance analytics.

This enhancement provides users with a robust solution for obtaining real-time insights from a variety of data sources.

Introducing our newly enhanced User Interface (UI) that addresses the limitations of existing UIs. Our focus on modernization and consolidation has resulted in a streamlined and cohesive UI design, providing a user-friendly experience. With the transition to a web-based interface, you can now access and manage operations from any device with a browser. This eliminates the need for local desktop clients, reducing IT maintenance and increasing security. Additionally, our redesigned UI is foundational in providing adherence to WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards, ensuring an inclusive experience for users with disabilities.

Upgrade to our new UI to benefit from improved usability, web-based convenience, and enhanced accessibility support.

Introducing our advanced authentication solution featuring OIDC-based SSO support, modernized capabilities beyond LDAP, with MFA flows, and compliance with corporate IT security standards. Benefit from streamlined access with a single set of credentials, seamless integration with common authentication providers like Active Directory, and enhanced security through Multi-Factor Authentication.

Ensure compliance, simplify access management, and bolster security with our user-friendly solution.

With the transition to Java 17 MediationZone 9 benefits from enhanced performance, increased security, and optimized memory management through improved garbage collection. The upgrade also unlocks new features, bug fixes, and increased compatibility from modernized Third-Party Libraries (3PPs). Stay ahead with a future-proof solution that ensures reliability and delivers a superior experience.

Upgrade to MediationZone 9 now and harness the power of Java 17 for your business.

We are thrilled to introduce our enhanced Google Cloud Storage capabilities, designed to meet the evolving needs of customers adopting Google Cloud Platform and its comprehensive ecosystem of services. With this new feature, you can effortlessly move data between systems, whether they reside in a cloud-native environment or form part of a hybrid cloud strategy. Experience the seamless transfer of data, enabling you to optimize workflows and maximize efficiency. We have developed new batch collection and forwarding agents dedicated to file transfer, ensuring faster, more reliable, and streamlined data transfers.

Unlock the potential of smooth data movement and accelerated file transfers, empowering your business to thrive in the cloud-native era.

Microsoft Azure Data Explorer (KustoDB) is a robust and fully managed data analytics service designed to empower real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices, and more. This new feature enable you to derive valuable insights from your data, harnessing the power of Azure Data Explorer's enrichment capabilities. With the integration of a new APL function, you can effortlessly leverage Azure Data Explorer as a source for enrichment data using the flexible and efficient Kusto Query Language.

Unlock the potential of your data and make informed decisions with speed and accuracy.

Introducing our advanced Unit Test Framework, designed to elevate the quality and configuration of your deployments. With this powerful solution, you gain the ability to define and execute precise unit test scenarios, ensuring the accuracy and functionality of your configurations before they are deployed. Experience comprehensive testing capabilities as you create and run tests for global APL functions and basic workflow scenarios, using Python-based test cases. Our framework generates detailed JUnit XML test reports, enabling you to analyze and troubleshoot the results with ease. Benefit from the flexibility of exporting and importing test configurations, streamlining your testing process and promoting collaboration.

Elevate your testing capabilities, enhance configuration quality, and drive deployment confidence with our state-of-the-art Unit Test Framework.

Introducing Workflow Packages, a significant improvement over the traditional method of regular exports/imports. Here's how Workflow Packages offer tangible benefits compared to regular exports/imports:

• 1. Efficient Configuration Compilation: Workflow Packages eliminate the need for time-consuming compilation during the import process. Configurations within the package are pre-compiled, saving valuable time and effort.
• 2. Streamlined Rollback and Upgrades: With Workflow Packages, rolling back to previous configurations is straightforward and efficient. The atomic upgrade/rollback procedure ensures seamless transitions between different versions, minimizing disruptions and maintaining workflow continuity.
• 3. Independent Configuration Versions: Workflow Packages provide the flexibility of having distinct versions for shared configurations within different packages. This allows you to update and modify configurations independently, without affecting other workflows dependent on the same configuration.
• 4. Secure and Reliable Execution: Workflow Packages are designed to be self-contained and read-only. This ensures the security and integrity of the package contents, providing a reliable execution environment for workflows.
• 5. Coexistence of Old and New Versions: Workflow Packages allow for the coexistence of old and new configuration versions. This enables you to test and validate new configurations while retaining the stability of existing workflows.

Upgrade your configuration management with Workflow Packages and experience the efficiency of pre-compiled configurations, streamlined rollback procedures, independent version control, secure execution, and the flexibility to coexist multiple configuration versions. Harness the power of Workflow Packages to enhance your workflow management and streamline your configuration deployment process.

Conditional Trace 2.0 addresses the challenge of efficiently locating specific records and requests within the vast amounts of data processed by the system. This enhancement significantly improves usability when it comes to monitoring and troubleshooting by allowing users to easily find records originating from a particular user group or meeting specific criteria as they flow through the system. With Conditional Trace 2.0, users gain the ability to define filters to capture and trace only the desired records in real-time deployments. Furthermore, this feature seamlessly integrates with Jaeger, a state-of-the-art trace logging application, enabling advanced trace analysis and logging capabilities.

Unlock precision and insight with Conditional Trace 2.0, shaping a more refined approach to data analysis and enhancing your monitoring capabilities.

System Insight 2.0 is a major upgrade to the system monitoring and metric collection capabilities. This new version addresses the evolving landscape of metric collection and monitoring by embracing Prometheus as a de facto standard in the industry. System Insight 2.0 replaces the legacy version and introduces a native integration with Prometheus, offering seamless compatibility and enhanced functionality. By leveraging Prometheus, System Insight 2.0 enables the storage of time series metric data, empowering you with comprehensive monitoring and alerting capabilities. Furthermore, Prometheus integrates with Grafana and a range of other system monitoring tools, providing a holistic and customizable monitoring solution.

Step into the future with System Insight 2.0 and unlock a realm of precise metrics, dynamic insights, and informed decision-making.

MediationZone 9 introduces a significant improvement in environment management and workflow execution. With this update, the need for separate Execution Context (EC) types for 'normal' and 'standalone' workflows are eliminated, streamlining deployment and operations. The standalone Execution Context (ECSA) has been replaced, and now the standalone setting is controlled at the workflow level rather than the EC level. This enhancement offers several benefits, including easier environment management and streamlined workflow execution. By consolidating EC types, organizations can reduce configuration overhead and achieve greater efficiency in workflow setup and execution.

Elevate your operations with MediationZone 9 and unlock a new era of simplified environment management and optimized workflow execution, tailored to meet the evolving demands of your organization.

MediationZone 9 introduces native CSV and JSON handling, significantly enhancing the usability of common text-based formats and streamlining implementation work. With this improvement, working with CSV and JSON formats becomes more intuitive and efficient. MediationZone 9 provides built-in support for both decoding and encoding CSV and JSON data, eliminating the need for APL-based workarounds for full CSV compatibility. This native support simplifies data processing workflows and ensures seamless compatibility with these widely adopted formats.

Step into an era of enhanced efficiency with MediationZone 9 as it unlocks the power of native CSV and JSON handling.

The JSON Export Format offers improved compatibility with external version control systems and eliminates the need for command-line interface (CLI) access to create an export format compatible with version control. This enhancement supports integration with external version control tools. With the new system export/import format using JSON, you can conveniently access and manipulate configuration data from both the New and Legacy Desktop interfaces. MediationZone 9 and Usage Engine – Private Edition utilize the same configuration format, ensuring compatibility and consistency across the software suite.

Unlock streamlined data management and integration with the JSON Export Format.

The enhanced real-time IWF (Inter Workflow) data safety addresses the critical need to ensure transaction safety during the persistence of data from a real-time workflow before it is passed on to downstream processing and systems. This capability is particularly important in application patterns like the Charging Gateway Function, where data integrity and reliability are paramount. With the enhanced Inter Workflow agent, MediationZone enables workflows to be notified when data is successfully persisted, allowing them to wait until the data is securely stored before sending an acknowledgment to the source system. This ensures that the entire transaction is completed with utmost confidence, minimizing the risk of data loss or inconsistency.

Further improve the reliability of your transactions with the enhanced real-time IWF data safety feature.

In addition to the above highlighted new features, explore our detailed guide for a clear breakdown of all the latest features and functionality introduced in MediationZone 9.0.

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