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As a mobile operator, you realize the importance of expanding your service offerings to address the home, enterprise, and hotspot markets. To address these markets, multiple new access networks will be used to connect your subscribers to your mobile voice and data services, including Wireless LAN (WLAN) and Femtocell.
Security Gateway
Many of these access technologies are provided over un-trusted networks – primarily existing broadband DSL or cable networks. You want to offer subscribers seamless access as they roam between the un-trusted networks and your trusted network. However, in order to provide access over networks that you may not own, you need a secure access gateway into your network.
As a leading provider of next-generation mobile multimedia core networking infrastructure, Starent Networks can help you address these wireless markets, while also enhancing your subscriber’s experience by providing a robust, standards-driven Security Gateway for un-trusted networks, including WLAN and femtocells.
Starent’s Security Gateway delivers the following comprehensive standards-based functions, deployed on our ST40 multimedia core platform:
- Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF) for 3GPP2 WLAN Interworking
- Packet Data Gateway (PDG) for 3GPP I-WLAN
- Tunnel Terminating Gateway (TTG) for 3GPP I-WLAN
- Security Gateway for Femtocell aggregation function on Femtocell/Home NodeB (HNB) Gateway
- Security Gateway for 3GPP UMA/GANC
The Starent Security Gateway encapsulates and de-encapsulates subscriber-initiated IP Security (IPSec)/ IKEv2 tunnels.
Potential WLAN applications include Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) services to dual mode handsets and/or laptops, WLAN data services to devices such as data cards, and WLAN based Mobile VoIP services.
When used in a femtocell or 3GPP-defined HNB Gateway, the Security Gateway function provides a crucial piece of the Femtocell/HNB Gateway in both UMTS and CDMA networks whether in legacy circuit based architectures or SIP/IMS based architectures.
Key Features & Benefits
- Superior performance and security including IPSec tunnels, tunnel set-up rates, throughput, and deep packet inspection (DPI)
- Distributed platform architecture provides multi-service integration of multiple access gateway functions on same hardware platform, such as an integrated Security Gateway function with a PDSN, SGSN, ASN Gateway, or GGSN
- Security solution for multiple access applications – WLAN and Femtocell solutions for both 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards
- Real-time integrated subscriber, service, and application intelligence with enforcement through Starent’s In-line Services
- Exceptional reliability designed for no revenue loss due to any single link or node failure
- Platform designed to evolve to LTE/SAE
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