GENBAND's trio of new SBC, ATCA, and gateway announcements

GENBAND has made a trio of announcements highlighting new hardware and capabilities added to its SBC and gateway product lines.  SIPconnect certification, a new IPX Proxy, a 14 slot ATCA platform, new transcoding capabilities, and femtocell support are all in the mix.

The S3 session border controller (SBC) has been SIPconnect certified and has successfully completed IPX Proxy trials with several large mobile operators. The IPX Proxy provides a comprehensive solution that delivers high-performance routing based on ENUM for multimedia and emerging mobile applications, such as IM, picture and video. It also provides session visibility and policy control to the IPX operation and supports CDR processing, QoS/SLA alarming and extensive analytics to support IPX exchanges.

ATCA got a big boost with the S9 Gateway, GENBAND's 14 slot platform. The S9 integrates session, security, and deep packet inspection into one box. The initial rollout supports/delivers scale, additional feature content and enhanced performance of network border solutions for fixed, mobile and operator, while later phases will integrate FMC security and deep packet inspection (DPI).  

S9's hardware can handle signaling bandwidth of up to 12Gbps, media bandwidth up to 24Gbps, and up to 150,000 concurrent sessions and 900 calls per second; it also offers high availability with sub-second failover and supports hot-swappable components, with in-service platform upgrades. The company says the S9 will show up in femtocell, Voice over WiMAX, Voice over WiFi/WLAN access, Secured VoIP Access (UNI), Secured IP Network Interconnect or VoIP Peering (NNI), Secured IM, Presence, Messaging, Gaming and IPTV applications.

Rounding out the announcements, the G9 Converged Gateway is added several mobile-centric features, including new CDMA capabilities and satellite interconnectivitity; it also now enables cost-effective IP-transcoding applications for all major networks and enables the migration to "all-IP" next generation networks such as LTE. If that's not enough, the G9 also adds support for enterprise femtocell functionality.

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