G9 Converged Gateway

GENBAND Difference

GENBAND is a recognized global market leader in fixed and mobile IP gateways, and its flagship G9™ Converged Gateway represents the latest generation of high density carrier-class, multipurpose media processing platforms for high-capacity trunking, access, border gateway and IP transcoding services.

The G9 is highly scalable to 122,000 ports per chassis, field-hardened to five 9's (99.999%) reliability, and boasts over 70 million ports deployed worldwide.

The G9 provides simultaneous, any-to-any switching for enhanced flexibility and cost-effectiveness, including protocol, interface, security, signaling, and media processing support in all wireless and wireline, access and core, IP and TDM environments, maximizing investment protection as networks evolve. The G9 supports advanced solutions including IP Trunking, Distributed MSC Gateway, IP Transcoding, IMS, and greenfield VoIP in global ANSI, ETSI, and ITU markets.

Benefits

• Extensive, network-proven interoperability with next generation wireless and wireline call control and access platforms including the GENBAND C3 Gateway Controller and the GENBAND flagship C20 Softswitch
• State-of-the-art, latest generation of open standards-based IP gateway
• Provides true network convergence with support for wireless and wireline codecs, protocols, interfaces, and solutions
• Enables advanced media processing at TDM-to-TDM, TDM-to-packet, and packet-to-packet network borders
• Simultaneously supports multiple service architectures for investment protection and platform re-use
• Leading-edge 3GPP Mc and IMS-compliant Mn interfaces
• Reduces operator costs by integrating many features into a single IP gateway platform including Media Server, Security and Signaling Gateway
• Includes both IP and TDM switch fabrics for maximum service flexibility and voice quality
• Highly scalable to 122,000 ports and small footprint for significant cost, facilities, and power savings

Overview

Unified Gateway for Network Convergence: The G9 was built from the ground up for wireless, wireline, and converged networks. Wireless and wireline codecs, protocols, and trunking, border gateway and access interfaces are supported, allowing the G9 to be the key network element in advanced 3GPP, 3GPP2, and TISPAN architectures. Extremely versatile, the G9 provides simultaneous, any-to-any switching for maximum flexibility and cost-effectiveness, and it fully supports non-proprietary, open standards interfaces.

Wireless Media Gateway Leadership: The G9’s wireless solutions span 2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE architectures across GSM, UMTS, CDMA, and satellite networks. In converged networks, the G9 provides solutions for Fixed Mobile Convergence/ femtocells, IP-to-IP multimedia transcoding, and IMS convergence. The G9 is highly interoperable and can be used to provide scalable VoIP services in conjunction with GENBAND’s C3 and C20 softswitches, IMS cores and other call control platforms, ensuring investment protection and cost-effective transition to next generation IP networks.

Latest Generation of Gateway Architecture: The G9 is built from state-of-the-art DSP, computing, and media processing components, and it includes the latest in high value feature upgrades like IPv6 and Virtual Media Gateway support. IP and TDM switch fabrics are provided for high quality, native interworking at TDM-to-TDM, TDM-to-packet, and packet-to-packet network borders. Its highly scalable backplane and flexible 28-slot chassis enables a low power, efficient card design that allows operators to easily add TDM and IP session capacity as well as incremental services.

Cost-Saving Integrated Features: The G9 has many integrated features and functions that reduce operator costs by limiting the number of additional elements required in the network. Integrated features include echo cancellation, emergency services, lawful intercept, and media server/MRFP capabilities such as audio bridging, conferencing, announcements, and tones. The G9 also integrates a high capacity signaling gateway that lets operators centralize network signaling to reduce total cost of ownership. With powerful IP-to-IP processing capabilities, the G9 supports IP Transcoding, multi-path OSPF for Layer 3+ routing and control, MPLS RSVP-TE for QoS, and an extended set of session border controller features.

High Definition (HD) Voice: The G9 supports superior voice transmission and quality utilizing high definition voice codecs such as Wideband AMR and voice quality enhancement features such as Transit Free Operation (TFO), Transcoder Free Operation (TrFO), Automatic Level Control (ALC) and Adaptive Noise Reduction (ANR) for both circuit and packet based interfaces.

Carrier-Grade Reliability and Management: As a carrier-class gateway, the G9 provides multiple levels of redundancy and load-sharing on critical system components, cards, and network interfaces, in addition to in-service software upgrades. The G9 supports open interfaces for flexible OSS integration and is managed by GENView™, a comprehensive element manager, for centralized OAM&P control of multiple G9 platforms.

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Reviews

"GENBAND’s G9 gateway forms a key element of NEC’s Femtocell solution for both consumer and enterprise markets. NEC’s goal is to provide a first class, end-to-end femtocell network to operators, enabling them to meet their customers’ increasing expectations in both mobile voice and data. Throughout several rigorous Femtocell trials, GENBAND has demonstrated that its superior technology and global experience in tier 1 mobile core networks solidifies its position as the best-of-breed gateway provider and a trusted NEC partner. "

- Anil Kohli, NEC’s Head of Femtocell business

"PAETEC’s customer base is comprised of medium to large size business customers. And we deliver services that cover the complete suite of voice and data services to that customer base. The C3 and G9 have proven to be great in that sweet spot of PAETEC’s customer environment.  It’s given us the ability to deliver an entire suite of voice services irrespective of how the customer wants it be delivered.  It’s given us the flexibility to deploy services across the board. "

- Sanjay Hiranandani Sr. Vice President Engineering, PAETEC

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NEC Femtocell Solution with GENBAND

"Incorporating the GENBAND G9 Gateway into Iskratel’s solution portfolio enables Iskratel to achieve a stronger position in the field of high-capacity metropolitan networks. The G9 platform also allows the SI3000 CS softswitch to interoperate with mobile networks. The combined solution presents the next step for Iskratel in designing high-capacity urban networks. The tested and approved solution with both elements was configured and realized in a very short time. It shows that both companies have mature and reliable products that help the carriers deploy the infrastructure in the smallest possible amount of time. "

- Mr. Aleš Potočnik, head of Iskratel's Product Management