Starent Networks’ Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) has become the choice for many of the world’s most innovative 3GPP network operators deploying GSM, UMTS, and HSPA networks.

The GGSN function is supported on Starent’s market-leading ST-Series multimedia core platforms, delivering unrivaled throughput, call transaction rates, and packet processing, along with significant memory resources.

Starent’s GGSN allow operators to focus on building high-margin revenue streams, lowering infrastructure costs, and realizing a rapid return on their packet core network investments.

Through simple software upgrades, our GGSN can support future 3GPP access technologies, ensuring investment protection as the network evolves to next-generation access technologies.

Key Features

• In-depth subscriber understanding and management
• Subscriber- and service-aware service steering capability enables tiered service policies
• In-line Services enhance subscriber revenue generation opportunities
• High-availability design ensures customer satisfaction and 99.999% service uptime
• Market-leading performance delivers exceptional subscriber experience
• Centrally-provisioned, distributed multi-processing architecture allows operators to “plug-and-play” without the need to provision blades and interfaces every time subscriber or service base grows
• Future-proof architecture that evolves to support Long-Term Evolution/Evolved Packet Core (LTE/EPC) and multi-access (WiFi and femtocell) requirements