BroadForward Secures Key 5G SCP Contracts Across Europe, Africa and North America Amid Industry Wide Integration Challenges

March 9, 2026 – BroadForward, a leader in intelligent signaling software, today announced multiple new 5G Service Communication Proxy (SCP) contracts across Europe, Africa and North America. These wins reflect the growing global demand from operators transitioning their Service‑Based Architectures (SBA) into mature 5G Standalone production networks. At the same time, operations teams engaging in deployments and proof of concepts are encountering significant, systemic integration challenges across the industry.

Integration hurdles in real‑world 5G Core deployments

Deploying a unified 5G Core in practice exposes multi‑vendor inconsistencies that cannot be fully resolved by standards alone. Operators frequently struggle to harmonize communication modes when one vendor requires direct discovery (Model C) while another mandates delegated discovery (Model D).

In Model C, the consumer Network Function (NF) performs discovery directly with the repository before routing through the proxy. In Model D, discovery and selection are delegated entirely to the proxy layer. When different vendors enforce conflicting models within the same network, incompatible configurations can lead to failed requests, incorrect routing, discovery failures or retry loops.

Furthermore, although 5G standardizes HTTP/2, vendors often interpret 3GPP specifications differently, resulting in missing parameters, incompatible vendor‑specific extensions and increased messaging friction.

Native message manipulation capabilities and simultaneous Model C/D support

To resolve these deployment bottlenecks, without forcing operators into long, costly development cycles with legacy vendors, BroadForward leverages its native message manipulation capabilities within the BFX Unified Signaling Core (USC). These capabilities enable extensive on‑the‑fly parameter harmonization, translation and configurable JSON payload modification, providing the mediation layer required to merge disparate vendor architectures into a unified, functional network ecosystem.

In addition, the BroadForward SCP uniquely supports simultaneous Model C and Model D operation within the same deployment. This allows the SCP to apply Model C behavior for NFs that require direct discovery, while applying Model D behavior for NFs that rely on delegated discovery, all within one unified platform. This removes the need for operators to enforce a single communication model across vendors and significantly reduces integration friction in multi‑vendor 5G Core environments.

BroadForward continues to work closely with operator partners across these three continents to deploy these advanced routing capabilities, ensuring that multi‑vendor variations do not compromise the momentum of global 5G Standalone roll outs.