The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming industries, enabling business to connect billions of devices worldwide. However, with this rapid expansion comes an increasing challenge – securing IoT networks from signalling storms that can compromise performance, security, and profitability.
At Comfone, we provide robust IPX and signalling solutions designed to protect IoT networks, ensuring seamless and secure connectivity. Here’s how we safeguard your business from the risks of signalling storms.
The hidden threat: Signalling storms in IoT Networks
Signalling storms occur when an excessive amount of signalling messages flood a network, overwhelming infrastructure and causing severe disruptions. These storms can be triggered by software bugs, misconfigured devices or malicious attacks. The consequences for IoT businesses can be severe:
- Security breaches: Overloaded networks become vulnerable to cyber threats such as DDoS attacks, leaving IoT businesses exposed to data breaches and unauthorised access.
- Service disruptions: Network downtime caused by signalling storms leads to lost revenue, reputational damage, and operational inefficiencies.
- High remediation costs: Addressing a signalling storm often involves costly network reconfigurations and security upgrades, with a significant impact on customers.
Comfone’s distributed IPX and signalling architecture
To combat these risks, Comfone has developed a scalable, resilient and secure IPX and signalling infrastructure designed specifically for IoT networks.
- Scalable: Our architecture dynamically adapts to high traffic volumes, ensuring uninterrupted services even as your IoT business grows.
- Resilient: A distributed network prevents single points of failure, guaranteeing network availability even during outages.
- Secure: We incorporate advanced security measures to block unauthorised access and safeguard sensitive IoT data.
Proactive traffic management: Keeping your network stable
Comfone takes a proactive approach to network security by absorbing and mitigating signalling storms before they cause damage. Our multi-layered traffic management strategy includes:
- Traffic monitoring: Continuous real-time analysis of network traffic to detect potential anomalies before they escalate.
- Traffic filtering: Blocking malicious or excessive signalling traffic before it reaches your IoT network.
- Traffic rerouting: Ensuring the uninterrupted flow of legitimate network traffic, even in the presence of disruptions.
Optimising IoT and roaming traffic for maximum performance
A key challenge in IoT connectivity is ensuring that roaming and IoT traffic do not interfere with each other. Comfone addresses this by implementing dedicated network segmentation:
- Roaming traffic: Managed via our secure IPX network, ensuring seamless global connectivity for traditional mobile users.
- IoT traffic: Isolated on a dedicated network, providing enhanced security and efficiency for connected devices.
- Dedicated links: IoT traffic is routed over exclusive IoT SS7 (SIGTRAN) and Diameter links, ensuring that roaming services remain unaffected.
The Comfone advantage: security, reliability and cost savings
By choosing Comfone’s IoT security solution, business gain:
- Enhanced security – strengthening network defences against cyber threats and signalling overloads.
- Improved reliability – ensuring continuous services availability, even in challenging network conditions.
- Reduced costs – lowering expenses related to network disruptions and security breaches.
Ensuring the future of security IoT connectivity
With a global IPX network, redundant failover systems, and continuous monitoring, Comfone provides an unparalleled level of security and reliability for IoT businesses.
As IoT adoption grows, so does the need for robust, scalable and secure network solutions. Don’t let signalling storms put your business at risk – partner with Comfone to ensure your IoT connectivity remains resilient and protected.
Get in touch with us today to learn how we can secure your IoT network.
