FMC: WiFi
As a market leading provider of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions, GENBAND offers best-of-breed security and gateway products that advance the growth of WiFi-enabled FMC networks worldwide.
WiFi-enabled FMC networks provide high quality voice and multimedia services to mobile devices in indoor or weak coverage areas. A small WiFi router or access point located in a home or business is linked to a broadband Internet connection, creating a small wireless coverage area. When in range of the WiFi router, the handset communicates with the mobile core network via the Internet.
For operators and subscribers, WiFi-enabled FMC networks provide many advantages:
- Reduces operator costs by using the subscriber's broadband network for backhaul to the mobile core
- Avoids expensive Radio Access Network (RAN) buildouts required with increased data usage and recovers scarce macrocell bandwidth
- Expands the operator's ability to create new revenue from services like advanced gaming, mobile TV, and social networking
- Subscribers benefit from improved network performance and voice quality, flexible pricing options, and the ability to use a wide range of dual mode handsets
An array of security risks and related network issues arise when using subscribers' broadband Internet access for backhaul. These include the risk of exposing the mobile core to security threats, possible compromises of user privacy, and the potential for other network attacks or exploitations.
GENBAND works with the world's leading FMC integrators to enable a complete portfolio of solutions that address these issues and risks, for smooth, rapid, and secure FMC deployments in UMA, CDMA, and IWLAN networks.
The S2 and S9 Integrated Border Gateways™ (IBG) --
- Speed and simplify deployments by providing security, user authentication, mobile-IP connectivity management, secure tunnel management, accounting, and policy enforcement
- Control and manage the IPSec tunnels that securely transport voice and multimedia between the WiFi router and the mobile core
- Monitor connections for IP intrusion and attacks, discard malformed and Denial of Service (DoS) packets, filter and firewall control protocols, and enforce Quality of Service (QoS)
- Comply with standards-based interfaces defined for 3GPP, UMA/GAN, and CDMA networks
- Fill-in standard architecture technical gaps in GGSNs and PDSNs by providing Tunnel Termination Gateway (TTG) functions in 3GPP/ GSM/ UMTS networks and the Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF) in 3GPP2/CDMA networks
- Reduce network complexity and costs by combining security gateway and session border control functionality in a single platform
The G9 Converged Gateway
- Reduces total cost of ownership by eliminating the need for separate gateways, converging the core distributed MSC gateway with mobile access / RAN gateway functions
- Enables WiFi traffic to traverse the IP network into the mobile core by providing media and signaling adaptation
- Provides voice quality improvements by supporting Transcoder Free Operation/TrFO and other Voice Quality Enhancements
- Utilizes standards-based Iu interfaces to the access network and mobile core
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