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Today’s mobile subscribers are responding to new dynamics in the market where content, information, and entertainment are increasing their desire to stay connected. Subscribers
are no longer satisfied with basic data services; they want a superior experience that they associate with a broadband multimedia environment.

As a mobile operator, you’ve provided a multimedia environment with messaging, ringtones, Internet access, and initial video and audio service. As a result, you’ve started to realize gains in data average revenue per user (ARPU). However, this is just the beginning. Advanced, interactive multimedia services, such as streaming music, video downloads, mobile office, instant messaging, and IPTV, will further increase usage of multimedia services and have the potential to become a substantial percentage of your profits. In order to deliver a superior subscriber experience, you must build a high-capacity, broadband, 3G network, while significantly improving control of individual subscriber sessions. Starent ST40 Multimedia Core Platform

A Legacy of Market Leadership
The ST40 builds upon the multimedia core platform leadership Starent established with its ST16 intelligent mobile gateway — a field proven platform deployed in many of the world’s most advanced mobile networks. The ST40 was designed to meet the needs of large, high demand, multimedia networks.

An Intelligent Multimedia Core Solution
The ST40 is a world-class platform that uniquely combines high capacity, high availability, and powerful performance with subscriber and network intelligence. With these capabilities, the ST40 has the potential to become an essential part of your multimedia core network as you look to support tremendous growth in multimedia services while planning for next-generation, 4G technologies.

We believe that the ST40 is the new benchmark for deployment in today’s and tomorrow’s multimedia enabled core network. The ST40 utilizes a simple, flexible network architecture that allows you to support multiple access technologies, subscriber mobility management, and call control capabilities, as well as unique In-line Services. As an access independent solution, the ST40 can be seamlessly deployed in various mobile networks, including CDMA2000, 1xEV-DO, UMTS, WiFi, and Mobile WiMAX, while also being IMS ready. The platform was developed with future technologies in mind, such as Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution (LTE/SAE), 1xEV-DO Rev. B, and Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB, a.k.a 1xEV-DO Rev. C).

With its throughput and capacity, the ST40 is ideally suited to support the following, network functions:

Highly adaptive, the ST40 supports much more than just simple data; it allows mobile operators to implement emerging revenue-generating services such as:

Enhanced charging
Robust Header Compression
Content filtering
Lawful Intercept
... and many others

The ST40 features increased service capabilities and network visibility, such as:

Integrated packet voice, data and multimedia for service flexibility
Detailed protocol monitoring, debugging, and subscriber statistics
High touch, deep packet inspection for enhanced charging and user understanding
In-line Services for highly flexible service control and operational simplicity
Highly-scalable performance and high system fault tolerance

In order to deliver a superior subscriber experience, you must build a high-capacity, broadband, 3G network, while significantly improving control of individual subscriber sessions. This network must handle bandwidth intensive, real-time multimedia services, such as voice, video, and TV — all the while preparing to transition to 4G technologies as they mature.

This network starts with the system intelligence and high performance of the Starent ST40 multimedia core platform.