G9 Converged Gateway

GENBAND’s G9 Converged Gateway is a high-density, carrier class trunking, access, and signaling gateway that is purpose-built for use in mobile, fixed line, and converged operators' packet and circuit-switched networks. A multipurpose media and IP gateway, the G9 supports up to 96,000 TDM DS0s and uses a field-hardened feature set with field-proven five 9's (99.999%) reliability and over 30 million ports deployed worldwide.

Cost-Saving Integrated Features – The G9's flexible 28-slot chassis provides a low power, efficient card design that is simple to maintain and operate, allowing operators to easily add ports and IP session capacity as well as add incremental features to existing gateways. Its many integrated features and functions helps to reduce service provider costs by limiting the number of elements in the network.

Integrated features include echo cancellation; legal intercept; and media server with audio bridging, conferencing, tones, and announcements. The G9 also integrates a high capacity signaling gateway that enables operators to centralize network signaling to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). With its powerful IP-to-IP processing capabilities, the G9 can be deployed as a cost-effective session border controller as well as an MPLS local edge router or in OSPF networks, with fast route convergence, multiple path selection, and fast re-route capabilities.

Latest Generation of Gateway Architecture - The G9 has a massively scalable backplane and is built from the latest generation of multipurpose DSP, computing, and media processing components. It has both IP and TDM switch fabrics for seamless interworking at the borders of networks including TDM to TDM, TDM to packet, and packet to packet. Extremely versatile, the G9 supports advanced architectures as defined by 3GPP, 3GPP2, and TISPAN NGN, among others -- and it provides a variety of solutions in GSM, UMTS, CDMA, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), and fixed line networks. A state-of-the-art migration platform, the G9 gateway has an open Mc interface allowing operators to transition to IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks and the all-packet future, providing continuous long-term value, cost reduction, and revenue generation for service providers.

Mobile, Fixed Line, and Converged Network Solutions – The G9 platform supports a wide range of interfaces for managing network borders and providing media processing in TDM, ATM, and IP networks, including high density trunking, access, and packet interfaces. Support for mobile and fixed codecs, protocols, and interfaces allow it to be the key network element in many service provider solutions including Distributed MSC Gateway, IP Trunking, Inter-MSC Trunking, Gateway MSC, Transcoding and Media Adaptation, PSTN Gateway, and FMC/femtocell and WiFi.

Carrier-Grade Reliability and Management – As a carrier class gateway, the G9 provides complete system redundancy on all critical system components, and it supports non-service affecting software upgrades. The G9 is also managed by a comprehensive element manager -- GenView -- for fully centralized OAM&P control of multiple G9 platforms.