Hughes Software Systems first to announce solutions that
accelerate the move from GPRS to All IP wireless networks
Amongst the first to upgrade its Gb and GTP GPRS Solutions
with 3GPP Release 4 compliance to enable 2.5G / 3G networks
accelerate to convergent wireless networks.
New Delhi, India, May 6, 2002
Hughes Software Systems (HSS), specialists in convergent
network software and a leader in providing GPRS, UMTS as well
as VoP software to OEMs today announced the availability of
components that would enable OEMs build and deploy All IP
wireless networks faster.
The company has launched a full suite of Third Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 4 compliant GPRS
Gb and GTP
(GPRS Tunneling Protocol) stack source code solutions. This
would enable OEM customers to migrate to the next generation
networks, and enable quicker time to market.
Using these solutions, OEM's can now migrate their customer
networks to operate with the low cost IP transport infrastructure,
thereby saving deployment costs, reducing interoperability
challenges, and ensuring applicability in GPRS as well as
UMTS networks.
The HSS Gb
stack now provides IP transport data security through ETSI
(European Telecommunications Standards Institute) specified
ciphering algorithms, namely GEA and GEA1 with Support for
Data compression (as per V.42bis) and Header compression for
IPv4 and IPv6 headers (as per RFC: 1144 and 2057). This product
is available for both network nodes - the GPRS BSC as well
as the GPRS SGSN.
The GTP
Stack from HSS is available for GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support
Node), for SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) and for CGF (Charging
Gateway Functions). This stack source code solution is also
compliant to UMTS standards.
Additionally these proven GTP
and Gb
stacks have undergone extensive Interoperability as a part
of the end solutions of HSS' multiple worldwide customers.
HSS also offers custom integration services for optimizing
these stack solutions on customer products to further accelerate
the time to market for its customers.
"The 3GPP Release 4 compliant GTP
and Gb
solutions from HSS is another indication of our commitment
to our customers for facilitating their realization of all-IP
wireless networks ", said Manoranjan Mohapatra. "Our
reliable portable and scalable solutions will enable equipment
manufacturers to deliver differentiated products and get to
market faster, while constantly retaining backward compatibility."
About GTP and Gb
GTP
- The GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) software enables communication
between GPRS Support Nodes in a GPRS network (both GSM Phase
2+ and UMTS). GTP is defined for the Gn interface, i.e. between
GSNs (GPRS Support Nodes) within a PLMN (Public Land Mobile
System), and for the Gp interface, i.e. between the GSNs in
different PLMNs. In addition, the GTP software at the SGSN
(Serving GPRS Support Node) provides user data transmission
on the IuPS interface.
Operating the latest release (Release 4) of GTP at GSNs ensures
that a GSNs in a PLMN will be interoperable with all 3G PLMNs
and IP/X.25 packets networks and provides the maximal set
of capabilities to end customers and service providers.
Gb
- The GPRS Gb Interface Stack from has been developed for
both the SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) and BSS/PCU (Packet
Control Unit) nodes. The BSS-Gb product can be used to upgrade
an existing GSM BSS equipment to provide GPRS based packet
data services. SGSN vendors can use the SGSN-Gb product to
build their equipment. This Gb support will help GSM networks
provide packet-data based services and applications like mobile
Internet, mobile e-mail access and wireless VPNs.
Operating the latest release (Release 4) of Gb ensures that
a 2.5G SGSNs and BSSs will be interoperable with all 2.5G
SSGNs/BSSs and provides the maximal set of capabilities to
end customers and service providers.
Glossary of Terms
GPRS
- The General Packet Radio Service is a value-added service
that allows both voice and high speed Internet data to be
exchanged across a cellular network. GPRS enables instant
high-speed data communication by which users can remain on-line
and pay only for data actually exchanged. Hence GPRS facilitates
the provisioning of customer services such as Internet browsing,
mobile e-mail, multimedia communication and location-based
services.
UMTS - The Universal
Mobile Telecommunication System is a value-added service that
(in addition to voice) allows Internet data with highly flexible
data rates and service qualities to be exchanged across cellular
networks built using different technologies. UMTS enables
a greater variety of cost-effective data services to be provided
to users, and enables cellular networks based on different
underlying technologies to be interoperable with each other.
GTP
- The GPRS Tunneling Protocol is used to transmit data packets
and signaling between GPRS support nodes (GSN) over the GPRS
backbone network.
Gb
- The Gb interface between the SGSN and BSC allows many
users to be multiplexed over the same physical resource. Resources
are allocated and released only when data is transmitted,
i.e. not throughout the lifetime of a call.
PLMN - A Public Land Mobile Network is the full set of systems
such as switches, transmission towers, etc. that enable a
cellular network service to be provided over a given area.
GSN
- A GPRS Support Node is an infrastructure node added to PLMNs
to route and deliver packet data between mobile stations and
external IP/X.25 packet data networks.
GGSN
- GGSN is a GPRS support node which acts as a gateway
between the GPRS network and packet switched public data network
(PSPDN) that houses the data being accessed by the subscriber..
SGSN
- SGSN is a General Packet Radio Service Support (GPRS) support
node that serves the GPRS mobiles by sending or receiving
packets via a base station (BS) subsystem.
About Hughes Software Systems (HSS)
Hughes Software Systems Ltd. (HSS), Specialists in Convergent
Network software and India's leading communications software
company, offers full spectrum software services, products
and solutions to leading Communication OEMs around the world.
HSS' technology focus is in the convergence market with products
and services in Next Generation Networks and Mobile Data.
Assessed at SEI-CMM Level 4 for all its development centers
and all lines of business, HSS has been an ISO 9001 company
since 1996. HSS is a subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems,
a unit of Hughes Electronics Corporation. HSS' U.S. headquarters
are located in Germantown, MD.
Ranked among the best companies to work for in India, by
Hewitt Associates, HSS has a team of over 1600 world class
professionals, at its development centers in India: at Gurgaon,
a suburb of New Delhi and in Bangalore. With sales and support
offices in the US, the UK, Germany and Finland, it is represented
throughout Europe, South America, and Asia to support its
global customer base.
For more information about HSS contact:
Jay Vikram Bakshi
Senior Manager, Corporate Communications
Phone: +91-124-634 6666 Extn. 2865
Fax: + 91-124- 6347895
Email: prcontact@flextronicssoftware.com
Last updated : August 5, 2006
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