"The GENBAND GENiUS platform, combined with the unique partitioning capabilities and real-time session visibility provided by the S3 SBC, allows us to effectively manage the growth in our network.
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GENBAND Difference
The GENBAND GENiUS™ platform is the industry’s leading unified IP Switching and networking platform supporting multipurpose IP solutions. GENBAND offers the majority of its product line on this leading software-centric GENiUS platform, including cloud-based and multimedia applications, local and interconnect call control, and session border control. GENiUS offers service providers an advanced, highly scalable and common platform that delivers multiple all-IP switching and networking solutions and reduces the total cost of ownership. GENiUS makes it easy for service providers to deploy and operate their networks.
The profile of the intelligent, common hardware modules of the GENiUS platform can be uniquely changed via software depending on the transient mix and scale requirements of the customer's network.
GENiUS provides the ability to mix and match applications, simple management and high scalability. The advanced platform can also host any combination of IMS ready modules, such as application server, access and media gateway control functions, and session border control or border gateway. With GENiUS, all components are studied and analyzed with the objective of reaching the six 9’s (99.9999%) mark, well beyond the classic five 9’s carrier-grade metric widely mentioned in the industry.
The platform handles complete solutions for operators in the fixed, cable and mobile markets. Examples of solutions supported by GENiUS include:
- Local and Interconnect Network Transformation
- Consumer Voice and Multimedia Applications
- Business Voice and Multimedia Applications
- Hosted Cloud-based Applications
- IP Interconnect
- Mobile Office
- Mobile Data Offload
GENiUS has received several industry awards including best IP Telephony or VoIP infrastructure product in 2010 and 2011.
Benefits
- Innovative: Advanced platform enabling innovation and IP services growth.
- Carrier-grade robustness: Both the ATCA specification and GENBAND commitment require that products deliver premium uptime and stable quality of service under a broad range of operating conditions.
- Lower operating cost: GENiUS provides a single ATCA blade type that can be configurable by software to handle a multitude of network roles. GENiUS also supports multiple applications on one instance of the common ATCA blade type. Additionally, GENiUS provides a unified GENView management system across applications. All this commonality means service providers save money on spares inventory, training, and overall integration and operating costs.
- Higher density: GENiUS dramatically reduces the footprint of network core components, compared to older components. The solution supports high application capacities and scalability, requires less power, and is much faster and easier to install.
- High overall scalability for multiple applications: Modular common blades enable customers to mix and match applications across the platform as well as on individual blade modules providing deployment flexibility and optimal scale.
- Unified Management: A unified management scheme across applications instead of separate management systems per network element prevalent in today's networks.
- Superior manageability: Highly granular views of system operation via GENView make it easy to isolate faults and determine root cause. A “flight recorder” capability enables system restoration while preserving the data needed for root cause analysis.
- Simple provisioning: Through GENView, there are common operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) across all elements that use GENiUS.
Overview
GENiUS is an industry-leading IP Unified Services platform for switching and networking, supporting multipurpose IP solutions and transforming global networks. With GENiUS, service providers are able to build their networks with the latest in state-of-the-art IP technology that delivers unmatched scale, flexibility and cost.
Keeping pace with subscribers’ fast moving demand for content anywhere, at any time requires being able to use industry standard components that are guaranteed to be suitable for service provider networks. GENiUS makes this practical approach a reality by combining the best ATCA hardware with innovative, high availability GENWare middleware and unified GENView management capabilities that are common across multiple applications. The platfrom supports multiple applications on common hardware modules including hosted, cloud-based applications, call control, and session border control and security. The profile of these intelligent, common hardware modules can be uniquely changed via application software depending on the transient mix and scale requirements of the customer's network.
The GENBAND GENiUS platform incorporates high-performance, high-density computing hardware and sophisticated SAF-compliant middleware, delivering the highest functionality, availability and robustness in the market.
Industry-Leading Hardware: The GENiUS IP Unified Services Platform provides robust, flexible and cost-effective ATCA hardware. GENiUS scales easily and affordably from very small to very large chassis, with options including two-slot to full ATCA chassis.
GENView World-Class Management: The GENiUS platform also incorporates the industry-leading GENView OAM to simplify operations. The GENView system features standards-based interfaces for configuration and performance management, software load and fault management, and security.
GENWare Middleware: The GENBAND GENiUS platform leverages GENWare, a robust fault-resistant middleware designed to deliver enterprise-class performance, savings and reliability. GENWare is SAF compliant and is built on a carrier-grade hardened Linux operating system with telecom-specific extensions.
This integration enables the platform to truly be greater than the sum of the parts, with the best in reliability, operational simplicity, capacity and security.
GENBAND GENiUS is being deployed as the common platform for many GENBAND products including the A2, C20, C3 and S3.
The common GENBAND GENiUS platform enables streamlined architecture and reduces acquisition, inventory and maintenance costs for service providers.¬
By utilizing open standards-based components in the common ATCA-based GENiUS platform, GENBAND is simplifying the network for service providers, partners and suppliers and laying the foundation to deliver future applications.
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Reviews
- Arif Reza, CEO of WorldSIM
"Seeing the S3 perform so well in another carrier’s network made it a natural choice. The additional flexibility offered by the GENBAND GENiUS platform further validated our decision.
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- Ziaur Rahman, CEO of DiGiTek
"The GENBAND A2 Converged Application Server is threatening to competitors in the hosted multimedia application server sector of the market. The GENBAND A2 pushes the openness envelope, as the platform employs a “hardware freedom” model that enables operators to port the software to dozens of RedHat/Linux certified servers, as well as GENBAND’s own GENiUS ATCA platform. The A2 is capable of multiple configurations, including deployment as a standalone SIP application server, in conjunction with a softswitch, and as an IMS-based application server. The A2 enjoys a rich legacy of multimedia support, as the application server was originally introduced to provide enterprise environments with an effective mix of communications and collaboration capabilities that predated by several years the delivery of so-called unified communications (UC) platforms.
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- Current Analysis
"The GENBAND S3 series now delivers significant deployment flexibility, as it can be configured as a standalone SBC, on an ATCA blade as part of a multi-application solution, or as a signaling proxy paired with GENBAND’s market leading G9 Converged Gateway. Operators deploying the S3 as blades in the GENiUS platform can support up to 384,000 simultaneous sessions in a single chassis. This puts the GENBAND S3 at the top of the SBC class in per-node performance.
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- Current Analysis
Industry Analysts
A2 Communications Application Server, Current Analysis (March 2011)