March 31, 2009

GENBAND Intros New Gateway

GENBAND announced the S9™ IP gateway, uniquely integrating session, security, and deep packet inspection in an efficient design that provides unmatched scale and flexibility, as well as energy and space efficiency. The 14-slot S9 Multimedia IP platform complements the company’s existing two-slot, ATCA-based S2™ Gateway. Both the S2 and S9 build on GENBAND's extensive experience in providing carrier grade, best-in-class IP infrastructure gateway technology with over 50 million gateway ports deployed world-wide.

The GENBAND S9 SBC provides a comprehensive increase in capacity, including signaling bandwidth of up to 12Gbps, media bandwidth up to 24Gbps and up to 150,000 concurrent sessions and 900 Calls Per Second. The tier-one, carrier-class SBC capabilities include peering/interconnect and access; superior protocol and network interworking and interoperability; multi-level security for networks and applications; session and service level visibility via real time analytics; carrier grade redundancy; and Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security (FCAPS) management via the widely-used GenView™ EMS.

GENBAND's S9 platform provides network border solutions for fixed and mobile and operators, integrating high value, closely-aligned features that control signaling and voice or multimedia streams between end users and the network operator, or between network operators. The S9 provides the security, QoS and IP mobility required to manage new revenue-generating voice and multimedia services for IP-based applications, including: 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.

The S9 hardware is a carrier-class Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) chassis. It offers full high-availability (HA) with sub-second failover and supports hot-swappable components, with in-service platform upgrades


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