Pre-Integrated ‘Network In A Box’ for LTE EPC Applications

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, February 27th, 2012 – ADAX, an industry leader in high-performance packet-processing, security and network infrastructure, and ARICENT GROUP, a leading global innovation and technology services company have announced a development collaboration for Long Term Evolution (LTE) Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Through this collaboration, the companies will offer a pre-integrated LTE core network offering to OEMs and System Integrators and provide complete solutions for niche small-mid subscriber markets such as public safety, rural and enterprise. Building on the significant technology synergies between the two companies this joint effort offers LTE equipment manufacturers and System Integrators a high-performance, pre-integrated, and optimized solution for their EPC solutions that will simultaneously reduce time to market, risk and cost.

Aricent’s LTE EPC software framework is an integrated offering of MME, SGW, PGW, HSS and PCRF components with the flexibility to run any of these nodes in any combination and permutation on single or multiple hardware platforms. With 15+ OEM and System Integrator design wins, strong interoperability credentials, 3GPP R10 compliance, and additional segment specific niche features, Aricent’s LTE EPC software framework is a highly mature, robust and optimized offering for the small-mid subscriber market.

The offering will be available integrated and pre-optimized on the Adax PacketRunner ATCA blade and PacketAMC boards and in a range of cost-effective and energy efficient 2, 6 and 12 slot ATCA systems delivering a complete ‘Network In a Box’ solution. To learn more about Adax and Aricent’s LTE technology, please go to http://www.adax.com/applications/epc.html and http://www.aricent.com/industries/lte.html

“Aricent’s partnership with ADAX for LTE is a natural extension of our decade long relationship spanning solutions across signaling gateways, deep packet inspection applications, fixed mobile convergence solutions and mobile data offload solutions,” said Rakesh Vij, vice president of business development, wireless and convergence for Aricent. “Adax is a trusted collaboration partner who shares our mission to deliver high performance and cost effective mobile communications solutions to customers.”

“Aricent has a successful track record providing mobile communications technology and services to the world’s leading infrastructure manufacturers,” said Robin Kent, Director of European Operations at Adax. “Combining Aricent’s LTE expertise and software technology with Adax ATCA hardware and software will provide our mutual customers with an optimized, robust and reliable solution for EPC applications. Together, Aricent and Adax will reduce OEM development time and engineering cost for the niche small-mid subscriber market solutions.”

Adax will be demonstrating this EPCLite ‘Network in a box’ solution at Mobile World Congress, 27 February to 1 March 2012, booth 1E43.