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The past several years have seen great changes in the mobile communications landscape with continued pressure on profitability. Many mobile operators have attacked one front of this challenge by deploying new enhanced packet services. With these changes, mobile operators have implemented a variety of network deployment strategies. Those who have prepared for a multimedia communications world and have strategically designed their networks for this rapidly changing environment stand to gain a competitive edge while minimizing expenditures and maximizing revenue.
IMS/MMD
Mobile operators recognized the challenges of deploying compelling, revenue-generating services will continue. To address these challenges, the industry is shaping the future network with the introduction of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture from the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Multimedia Domain (MMD) from 3GPP2.
Clearly, mobile subscribers are looking to expand their ability to communicate with one another while also having greater access to the information and advanced services that they have become accustomed to using on the Internet. IMS/MMD services are built upon Internet applications, services, and protocols that promise to couple the growth of the Internet with the growth in mobile communications.
More and more, mobile operators are looking to deploy enhanced voice, high-speed data, and multimedia services in the form of person-to-person, person-to-group, person-to-content, and person-to-application services. Additionally, many mobile operators are in the midst of significant network deployments costing millions, if not billions of dollars. The return on their investment needs to be protected by leveraging infrastructure solutions that are capable of providing these emerging multimedia services now and well into the future.
Starent Networks Delivers
Since our inception, Starent Networks has centered its attention on providing an enhanced subscriber experience that encompasses packet voice, high-speed data, and multimedia services. The company has a clear vision of a multi-access, multimedia communication environment.
With this guiding vision, Starent Networks developed its Session Control Manager as a high performance, service enabling packet core network solution. The Session Control Manager is based upon Starent's highly competent, multimedia core platforms, which have been deployed by many of the world's largest and most successful mobile operators to deliver their advanced services.
Starent's Session Control Manager is ideally suited to deliver multimedia applications in a IMS/MMD network. The system offers high-session support, comprehensive security, high-bandwidth bearer, and enhanced accounting functions critical to the deployment of next generation multimedia applications.
The following features demonstrate the power and flexibility of Starent's Session Control Manager:
- Industry leading bearer multimedia, session signaling, security and accounting scalability, and performance
- Comprehensive standards adherence and interoperability support for UMTS, CDMA, WLAN, and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC)
- High-availability software and hardware architecture to meet rigorous service requirements
- Investment protection based on the multimedia core platforms' switching and I/O capacity to support bandwidth and CPU intensive multimedia application, such as push-to-show, mobile gaming, multimedia on demand, and many others
- Lowest total cost of ownership (CAPEX and OPEX) for IP Multimedia solutions through an integrated platform
- Integrated or decomposed GGSN, PDSN, SIP-Application Server, and Call Session Control Function for rapid service deployment
- Integrated value-added applications for IMS/MMD deployment, such as push-to-talk, push-to-show, video streaming, voice and video conferencing — available now for rapid revenue generation opportunities
- Advanced IP services, including VPN, QoS, policy management, real-time billing rating and charging, and so much more
- Starent Networks' IMS solutions comply with 3GPP Release 5 and 6 interfaces, protocols, and standards
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