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Why do you need a Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) in a VoLTE deployment?

This article was written by Peter Nas, Senior Solution Architect for the Traffix SDC Operators have begun to get more and more serious around deploying VoLTE (Voice over LTE) in their networks. Si...
Published Nov 09, 2014
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Nov 26, 2014
Thanks for the interesting article. I was interested in this: "A DRA could also prioritize VoLTE related signaling, over all the various Diameter interfaces. When serving this function, operators can provide a higher quality VoLTE service over other services, particularly when other services load the network." Can I detect whether my Operator has activated such a feature through traces that I can see in Wireshark for instance?

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