1. Diameter Custom Applications User Guide
  2. Introduction
  3. Understanding DCA

1.1 Understanding DCA

The Diameter Custom Applications (DCA) framework allows for the creation of applications on top of the Diameter Signaling Router (DSR), allowing for a faster development cycle.

DCA requires several elements to function:
  • An interface that interprets a scripting language in order to manage the receipt of Diameter messages or UDR query results
  • An interface that performs basic routing functions such as selecting an Application Route Table or Peer Route Table, forwarding or dropping a Diameter message, or sending a Diameter Answer
  • An infrastructure to manage the DCA's business logic and the DCA application's configuration and to generate the script to be used by the interpreting interface