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Developing a WiMAX ASN Gateway

The Customer

The customer is a well-known wireless network solutions provider to Carriers, Service Providers, and Private Network Operators worldwide and a leading player in the global Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) market.

Key Challenges

• Interoperability of the ASN Gateway with the Base Station (BS), Home Agent (HA) and the Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server
• Development of embedded EMS (CLI, SNMP, and Web)
• Integrating the Data Plane and the Control Plane
• Testing the implementation on evaluation and customer-specific hardware; and overall system testing
• Closely coordinating and assisting the customer and chip vendors for Data Plane development

Aricent's Solutions

• Interoperability of the ASN Gateway with the BS, HA and the AAA server
• Porting and testing the chip vendors' code on the target hardware
• Development of management APIs for the Base Station (BS) on the ASN Gateway
• Collaborative development with chip vendors

Expertise Deployed

• Wireless mobility expertise
• Embedded system expertise
• Fast-path data processing technologies
• Packet routing and protocol expertise at Layers 2/3/4
• Network management expertise
• System-wide integration and testing

Customer Value

• The leading software services vendor for the ASN Gateway in the world
• Strong working relationships with the leading Network Processor vendors
• Technical capability to update the system specifications to the evolving 802.16e standards
• Robust testing procedures and practices in the WiMAX domain