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The signaling network is the carrier's most critical asset. Deregulation and convergence has been a double-edged sword for carriers. While these market changes have brought many exciting new opportunities, they have also opened the network up to serious threats. New carriers, technology and equipment are vastly connected worldwide to the PSTN via the signaling network. This increasingly complex interconnection brings greater risk of a network outage due to inadvertent or malicious malfunctions as well as lost revenue due to interconnection abuse. Consequently, carriers need access mediation technology to examine and control the signaling traffic entering and exiting the network. Access mediation protects the network against inappropriate signaling traffic to ensure network integrity and security in the evolving signaling environment.
