Feature Descriptions

Release 8.5.0.2.0

DSR

No new features for this release.

vSTP

The following vSTP feature is implemented in release 8.5.0.2.0:

vSTP IPv6 Support: Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported in IP configuration of local and remote hosts for Signaling links. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Virtual Signaling Transfer Point User’s Guide

VNFM

The following VNFM features are implemented in release 5.2.0.0.0:

Segregation of OAM and Replication Traffic Support: This feature supports separate network for OAM and Replication traffic. For more information, see Oracle Communications Virtual Network Functions Manager Installation and User Guide.
IPFE and Service Mp Scale from Sizing 0: This feature supports scale from sizing 0 for IPFE and Service Mp VMs. For more information, see Oracle Communications Virtual Network Functions Manager Installation and User Guide.
vSTP Service MP deployment: VNFM deploys the Service MP along with vSTP-MP only. This is an optional feature. For more information, see Oracle Communications Virtual Network Functions Manager Installation and User Guide.

SCEF

The following SCEF features are implemented in release 8.5.0.2.0:

Support of External Group ID for NIDD: The group Message Delivery feature allows an SCS/AS to deliver a payload to a group of UEs. SCEF supports group message delivery for a group of UEs which are part of the same External Group ID. For more information, see Oracle® Communications Diameter Signaling Router Service Capability Exposure Function User's Guide.
Support of External Group ID for ME: SCEF supports Monitoring Events using External Group Identifier. SCEF also support monitoring of multiple/group of UE's procedures. For more information, see Oracle® Communications Diameter Signaling Router Service Capability Exposure Function User's Guide.

Release 8.5.0.1.0

DSR

The following DSR features are implemented in release 8.5.0.1.0:

Mobile Private Network (MPN) vDRA: This feature aggregates Diameter and RADIUS traffic from external gateways towards appropriate Diameter and RADIUS peers. External gateways are palced on an automated process through provisioning portals. For more information, see the following guides:
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Feature Guide
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Diameter User's Guide
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router RADIUS User's Guide
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Alarms and KPIs Reference Guide
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Measurements Reference Guide
Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) Rx Gateway: The Rx ShUDR (Rx Gateway MCPTT) application enables the Push to Talk service using the DCA framework. For more information, see the following guides:
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Feature Guide
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Rx ShUDR Application User Guide
Diameter Security Application (DSA) with Session Integrity Validation Check (SIVC): This feature facilitates GPRS Tunnelling Protocol - Core (GTP - C) signaling fraud detection based on the subscriber location information for an outbound roaming subscriber. It scans the 3GPP-Gx-CCR-I message of outbound roaming subscribers to check whether a Update Location Request (ULR) message corresponding to the Credit Control Request - Initial (CCR-I) message is present in UDR DB or not. For more information, see the following guides:
- Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Feature Guide
- Oracle Communications Diameter Security Application User's Guide with UDR

vSTP

The following vSTP features are implemented in release 8.5.0.1.0:

vSTP eLynx TDM card support: Starting with this release, the Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over vSTP supports signal transmission over the eLynx Card.For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Virtual Signaling Transfer Point User’s Guide
vSTP Home SMS Routing: With this release, vSTP provides an enhanced capability to address spoofing and spamming issues using the Home SMS Routing. This functionality enables operators to route all the MO and MT SMs through an SMS proxy service located in the HPLMN of the receiving MS. The service provides an SMS signaling FW that analyzes MO and MT packets before submitting or delivering them. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router vSTP SS7 Security User's Guide.
vSTP Max and Reserved Link TPS: vSTP supports Reserved link TPS and Maximum link TPS parameters. The Reserved link TPS is a reserved bandwidth for specific link and the Max link TPS is MAX limit for the link. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Virtual Signaling Transfer Point User’s Guide.
vSTP Multi-component TCAP message security: The Multi-component TCAP message security feature provides additional capability to the existing TCAP Opcode Based Routing (TOBR) functionality. This feature enables the MSU being processed under the GTT Set of type OPCODE to check for the presence of multiple MAP operations in the same message. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router vSTP SS7 Security User's Guide.
vSTP Reassembly error for SCCP XUDT message: This feature enhances the vSTP screening capability of SCCP XUDT segmented messages by checking the length of the first segment and based on it a decision can be made to drop or allow the packet into the network. vSTP can discard reassembly procedure if the length of the first segmented MSU is less than configured length. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router vSTP SS7 Security User's Guide.
vSTP SCTP Firewall Enhancements: With this release, vSTP enables operators to configure the Linux firewall to allow desired signaling network traffic on vSTP-MPs. This feature provides capability to dynamically update the Linux firewall configuration on vSTP-MPs to allow or restrict signaling traffic. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router vSTP SS7 Security User's Guide.
vSTP TCAP Decoding Enhancement: vSTP provides the functionality to filter the ITU messages in case of any additional octets present in the TCAP layer. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Virtual Signaling Transfer Point User’s Guide.
vSTP Test Mode for GTT actions: vSTP provides the functionality to test the set of rules applied in SS7 network to block unauthorized traffic. This feature provides a detection mode, which raises an event for the MSU that encounters the GTT action and skips all the GTT actions included in that set. This helps identify all traffic that is discarded/copied/forwarded while the rule is active. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Virtual Signaling Transfer Point User’s Guide.
vSTP TIF Enhancements: The TIF functionality has been enhanced with the support for Linkset, Generic Number, and Redirecting Number based Blocklisting in vSTP for ISUP traffic. For more information, see Oracle Communications Diameter Signalling Router TIF User's Guide.

VNFM

The following VNFM features are implemented in release 5.1.0.0.0:

Operate VNF: This feature changes the operational state of a VNF instance, including starting and stopping the VNF instance. For more information, see Oracle Communications Virtual Network Functions Manager Installation and User Guide.
Heal VNFM: This feature is a resource for healing a VNFc instance. For more information, see Oracle Communications Virtual Network Functions Manager Installation and User Guide.
Custom Size vDSR Instantiation: This feature enables instantiation of custom number of VNFc for DSR signaling and SDS signaling VNFs. For more information, see Oracle Communications Virtual Network Functions Manager Installation and User Guide.
Dual IP stack support for Diameter+SBR flavor through VNFM: This feature supports Dual IP Stack deployment and the existing single IP deployment model. For more information, see Oracle Communications Virtual Network Functions Manager Installation and User Guide.

SCEF

No new SCEF features.

Release 8.5.0.0.1

No new features for this release.

Release 8.5.0.0.0

DSR

The following DSR features are implemented in release 8.5.0.0.0:

Support for the large vDAMP profile (35K MPS) on OL7 and KVM 1.5.3.
Support for Visualization with Common Security Dashboard.
Zero Balance Application (ZBA) and Steering of Roaming (SoR) to support UDR instead of USBR.
Support for Service Based Interface.
The var partition size is increased from 1 GB to 2 GB only on DSR systems.

vSTP

The following vSTP features are implemented in release 8.5.0.0.0:

vSTP Accounting Measurements.
Multiple Linksets and Routes Support.
ELK integration with Security Dashboard for Monitoring and Logging of security analytics.
vSTP G-Flex Feature Support.

VNFM

The following VNFM features are implemented in release 5.0.0.0.0:

Support for vDSR scaling
Support for APIGW with the new DB VMs
Modify VNF Information Operation
Cloud-init to ensure that DA-MP is not instantiated before SOAM

SCEF

The following SCEF features are implemented in release 8.5.0.0.0:

Integrated Diameter Intelligence Hub 8.3.2 (IDIH) support has been added for SCEF Diameter interfaces.
SCEF Monitoring Location Area configuration includes the TRACKING AREA ID and ROUTING AREA ID information to support the RAC/TAC range.

Note:
When a DSR with SCEF application enabled is upgraded from any earlier version to DSR 8.5 or later, then the existing MMI configuration records for /scef/monitoringlocationareas/ is deleted after the upgrade due to the change in the schema information.
Support for Device Status Query Troubleshooting Application Program Interface (API) to retrieve and delete IP and Non-IP data corresponding to a device from SCEF.

DSR Deprecated/Obsolete Software (Bug 28224086)

The following features are deprecated from 8.4.0.5 and later:

DSA with USBR
ZBA with USBR
SOR with USBR

The following software elements are not compatible with DSR 8.4 and later:

DAMP Active-Standby Configuration
GLA
MAP Diameter Interworking

Virtualized Engineered DSR (VEDSR) deployment, also known as TVOE based Fully Virtualized Rack Mount Server (FV RMS) Signaling node, is not supported from DSR 8.3 and later. The following are the non-supported network elements of Virtualized Engineered DSR (VEDSR):

DSR NOAM,
DSR SOAM,
DSR Message Processors (MP),
SS7 MP,
DSR IPFE,
DSR SBR (Session/Binding/Universal),
SDS NOAM,
SDS SOAM,
SDS QS,
SDS DP

Note:

DSR and SDS BareMetal Installations with TVOE based NOAM/SOAM will continue to be supported.

Virtualized Engineered DSR (VEDSR) networks and associated elements need to be migrated to virtual DSR implementation based on KVM with/without OpenStack or VMware prior to DSR 8.3 or 8.4.x upgrade or install.