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Aricent expands LTO portfolio for Telecom OEM
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 10 September 2009, 00:42 IST
Bangalore: Aricent, a technology and services company has announced expansion of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) solutions portfolio for including new software and frameworks for devices and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) systems and enhancements to its existing IP backhaul offering.
This new expansion, along with its existing eNodeB, will provide Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and device manufactures a complete solution for LTE user equipment, network access, IP backhaul and EPC.
Commercializing LTE will require vendors to commit more than $1 billion in research and development over 3-5 years, based on teams of 2,000-3,000 engineers, according to Arete Research LLC. But Aricent believes that telecommunications equipment manufacturers face the difficult task of managing this significant research and development investment while maintaining competitive LTE product readiness as service providers continue their evaluation and deployment cycles. The vendors have been constantly looking for pre-built LTE frameworks and advanced engineering services to improve LTE research and development efficiency and lower costs.
"An application ready platform for EPC elements based on a combination of Aricent's LTE frameworks and RadiSys' Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platforms and middleware is an excellent way for telecom equipment manufacturers to dramatically reduce time to the market in delivering solutions to the industry," said Venkataraman Prasannan, Senior Director, ATCA, RadiSys.
Aricent has developed LTE practice consisting of software, frameworks and comprehensive lifecycle services to start LTE device and systems development and reduce engineering complexity and cost. The company offers a portfolio of services to help equipment manufacturers scale initial LTE implementations and meet the requirements associated with commercial deployments.
Its strategy and design services provide assistance to OEMs as they determine product strategy and assess critical architectural directions. The company's domain experts provide research and development resources for requirements definition, feature development, managed interoperability testing and certification, when the customers enter the implementation stage. These services help to reduce costs significantly, associated with bringing capital intensive products to market for new disruptive technologies such as LTE.
"Aricent continues to invest heavily in 4G technologies, broadening our portfolio of technology and service offerings. Equipment manufacturers are actively seeking opportunities to reduce risk and time to market, while mitigating the cost of development," said C.P. Murali, Senior Vice President, Aricent.
The company offers a set of products including protocol stacks and frameworks to help equipment vendors to start their LTE programs with pre-tested toolkits conforming to the latest 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards.
These offers include LTE User Equipment Software Suite, a software package for device and semiconductor vendors including fully optimized Layer 1, Layer 2 protocol software with support for 100 Mbps downlink and 50 Mbps uplink data rates.
eNodeB Protocol Stacks and Framework is the company's existing offering which provides solution for radio access from pluggable stack software to a pre-integrated and optimized software frameworks.
The IP Backhaul solution is based on ISS Metro platform which offers pre-integrated Layer 2 switching solutions and can be used to build LTE and IP backhaul devices such as IP RAN Aggregation devices, internet offload gateways and Metro Ethernet devices.
The Evolved Packet Core Protocol Stacks and Framework are meant for the System Architecture Evolution (SAE) gateway and the Mobility Management Entity (MME) Gateway. These include support for charging, QoS, high availability, lawful interception and bearer related features.
