More and more, mobile subscribers are embracing multimedia communications to stay connected with family and friends, do business, and be entertained. This growth is accompanied by an increasing demand for a robust mobile broadband environment. To meet this demand, many operators are looking to Mobile WiMAX as a key ingredient to further build their broadband access networks.
Access Service Network (ASN) Gateway/Home Agent (HA)
Starent’s ASN Gateway is a subscriber mobility access gateway for IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX radio access networks. The ASN Gateway is designed to support connection management and mobility across cell sites and inter-service provider network boundaries through processing of subscriber control and bearer data traffic. The ASN Gateway serves as the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authenticator for subscriber identity and acts as a RADIUS client to the operator’s AAA servers.
The ASN Gateway leverages our expertise in providing packet data infrastructure for the 3G mobile broadband multimedia core by providing a high performance combined with embedded intelligence to deliver a robust voice, data, and multimedia services environment.
Our ASN Gateway function is supported on Starent’s ST16 and ST40 multimedia core platforms — the preferred solutions for many of the world’s most innovative and successful mobile operators. This carrier-class platform boasts exceptional reliability and performance characteristics that allow Mobile WiMAX operators to enhance the subscriber experience.
Starent’s ASN Gateway harnesses the ST16 platform’s throughput, call transaction rates, packet processing, and significant memory resources to provide a highly efficient and powerful core network.
Deploying the ASN Gateway on Starent’s market leading platforms ensures the necessary intelligence and interoperability experience in the multimedia core network required to offer advanced services. That way, operators can focus their attention on building high-margin revenue streams.
Key Features & Benefits
Proven multimedia core solutions deployed in many of the world’s largest Tier 1 production networks
Unique deep packet inspection (DPI) technology and service steering capabilities
High-capacity system meets and exceeds network requirements without changing or adding hardware
Platform flexibility provides multi-service integration of multiple access gateway functions on same hardware platform
Stateful transaction information, such as charging records, Quality of Service (QoS), and compression contexts, is seamlessly transferred on handoffs without the need for call re-registrations
High value In-line Services enhance subscriber revenue generation opportunities and network efficiency
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