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White Papers & Contributed Articles
Latest Publications
- Lethal Cocktail: Internet Traffic Offloading & Traffic Shaping Don’t Mix NEW!
by Manish Singh, VP of Product Line Management
- Local IP Access via Home Node B NEW!
by Siddhartha Kundalkar & Madhur Raj N.
- Deep Packet Inspection Optimizes Mobile Applications NEW!
by Mike Coward, CTO
- LTE - Top 12 Challenges
by Manish Singh, VP of Product Line Management
- LTE E-UTRAN and its Access Side Protocols
by Suyash Tripathi, Vinay Kulkarni, and Alok Kumar
- Increasing Carrier-Class High Availability
by Ravi Kiran, Senior Engineer
- Modern Day Challenges for Lawful Intercept
by Karl Wale, Director of Product Line Management
- What’s Next for Femtocells?
by Todd Mersch, Director of Product Line Management
- Telecom Hardware Moving Toward "Buy"
by Brian Wood, VP of Marketing
- DPI Applications: Friend or Foe?
by Karl Wale, Director of Product Line Management
- Use DPI To Increase Mobile Subscriber ARPU Despite Flat-Rate Plans
by Todd Mersch, Director of Product Line Management
- Why Do 3G and LTE Need DPI?
by Karl Wale, Director of Product Line Management
- Femtocells Opportunities & Challenges for Business & Technology
by Ravi Raj Bhat, V. Srinivasa Rao, ...
- AdvancedTCA Blade Solutions Provide Seamless Migration to LTE
by Nitin Tomar, Product Line Manager
- Bringing Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) into Wireless Networks
by Mike Coward, CTO
- Implementing ATCA in LTE Network Serving Gateway Nodes
by Sridharan Natarajan and Karl Wale
- Why Is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Essential for Wireless Networks?
by Manish Singh, VP of Product Line Management
- Make vs. Buy: The Case for Outsourcing Complete ATCA Systems
by Brian Wood, VP Marketing
- Iuh: A Protocol Solution to Scale Femtocells for the Mass Market
by Debjani De, Architect, Ravi Raj Bhat, Engineer & V. Srinivasa Rao, Architect
- CPE WAN Management Protocol and Femto Access Point Management
by Ravi Raj Bhat, Engineer & V. Srinivasa Rao, Architect
- Unlocking LTE: A Protocol Perspective
by Debjani De, Architect & Ravi Raj Bhat, Engineer
ATCA
- Telecom Hardware Moving Toward "Buy"
by Brian Wood, VP of Marketing
- AdvancedTCA Blade Solutions Provide Seamless Migration to LTE
by Nitin Tomar, Product Line Manager
- Implementing ATCA in LTE Network Serving Gateway Nodes
by Sridharan Natarajan and Karl Wale
- AdvancedTCA: The Perfect Fit for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
by Mike Coward, CTO
- Make vs. Buy: The Case for Outsourcing Complete ATCA Systems
by Brian Wood, VP Marketing
- High-performance ATCA: Architectures for 80 Gbps/shelf
by Mike Coward, CTO
- ATCA Support of Wireless Flow-Based Routing: NGN Wireless "God-Box"?
by Karl Wale, Director PLM
- ATCA: Freedom of Choice Through Best-of-Breed
by Brian Wood, VP Marketing and CP-TA colleagues
- Statistical Load Balancing on the FlexCore ATCA-FM40
by James Radley, Principal Architect
- Load Balancing Between Server Blades Within ATCA Platforms
Discussion of how various load balancing solutions can be implemented.
- High Availability - Issues and Challenges when Designing an ATCA System
Describes the factors involved in designing for, and calculating, the availability of a carrier-class telecom system.
- Protecting Telecom Equipment from Heat Exhaustion
by Chuck Hill, Chief Architect
cPCI
- Flex21 — The Intelligent CompactPCI Platform
Product brief containing a detailed description of how Flex21 is a highly available, fully manageable, and easily serviceable intelligent platform for cPCI-based solutions.
- CompactPCI without PCI: Heresy or High Availability?
White paper describing alternate cPCI platform architectures and the tradeoffs associated with guaranteeing high availability (99.999% uptime).
- CompactPCI: Infrastructure Platform Evolution
cPCI led the evolution of reliable communications platforms for many years. One of the greatest strengths of cPCI has been its adaptability.
DPI
- Lethal Cocktail: Internet Traffic Offloading & Traffic Shaping Don’t Mix NEW!
by Manish Singh, VP of Product Line Management
- Deep Packet Inspection Optimizes Mobile Applications NEW!
by Mike Coward, CTO
- Modern Day Challenges for Lawful Intercept
by Karl Wale, Director of Product Line Management
- DPI Applications: Friend or Foe?
by Karl Wale, Director of Product Line Management
- Use DPI To Increase Mobile Subscriber ARPU Despite Flat-Rate Plans
by Todd Mersch, Senior Product Line Manager
- Why Do 3G and LTE Need DPI?
by Karl Wale, Director of Product Line Management
- Bringing Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) into Wireless Networks
by Mike Coward, CTO
- Why Is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Essential for Wireless Networks?
by Manish Singh, VP of Product Line Management
- AdvancedTCA: The Perfect Fit for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
by Mike Coward, CTO
- DPI: Managing Data Traffic in LTE Networks
by Mike Coward, CTO
- ATCA Support of Wireless Flow-Based Routing - the NGN Wireless "God-Box"?
by Karl Wale, Director PLM
- Statistical Load Balancing on the FlexCore ATCA-FM40
by James Radley, Principal Architect
- Load Balancing Between Server Blades Within ATCA Platforms
by James Radley, Principal Architect
- Achieving Higher Performance in a Multicore-based Packet Processing Engine Design
by Mike Coward, CTO
Femtocell
- Local IP Access via Home Node B NEW!
by Siddhartha Kundalkar & Madhur Raj N.
- What’s Next for Femtocells?
by Todd Mersch, Director of Product Line Management
- Femtocells Opportunities & Challenges for Business & Technology
by Ravi Raj Bhat, V. Srinivasa Rao, ...
- Iuh: A Protocol Solution to Scale Femtocells for the Mass Market
by Debjani De, Architect, Ravi Raj Bhat, Engineer & V. Srinivasa Rao, Architect
- CPE WAN Management Protocol and Femto Access Point Management
Explains the existing BBF remote device management framework and how it would be adapted to manage FAPs.
- Femto Mass Market Mobilization
by Todd Mersch, Sr. PLM
- Femtocells: Spectrum Efficiency Improved
by Manish Singh, VP PLM
- Top 10 Challenges of Femtocell Deployment, Part I and Part II
by Manish Singh, VP PLM
- Integrating Femtocells with Existing Wireless Infrastructure
by Manish Singh, VP PLM
- Mass Femtocell Deployment and the RF Environment
by Todd Mersch, Senior PLM
- Femtocell Network Architecture and Signaling Protocol Options
A femtocell is a fairly simple concept of extending the 3G/2.5G/2G wireless last mile into the indoor arena.
- Why Femtocells?
by Manish Singh, VP PLM
High Availability
- Increasing Carrier-Class High Availability
by Ravi Kiran, Senior Engineer
- 3rd Party HA and Disaster Recovery Tools for Microsoft Exchange Server
by Hilal Lone, Senior Integration Engineer
- Trillium DFT/HA Systems
White paper providing an overview of Fault-Tolerant / High Availability and patented Distributed Fault-Tolerant / High Availability architectures and implementations.
- FT/HA and DFT/HA
Targeted explanation of Fault Tolerant, High Availability and Distributed Fault Tolerant systems and how to deliver them.
- A Better Architecture For High Availability
White paper outlining the data replication requirements necessary for assuring high availability (99.999% uptime).
IMS
- Evolving in an Era of Consolidation
Third IMS white paper in a series of three. New rules and roles for NEPs as IMS network convergence intensifies.
- Successful IMS Implementation Methodologies
Second IMS white paper in a series of three. When navigating the platform infrastructure value line, one should "buy below, innovate above".
- Transforming Network Architectures
First IMS white paper in a series of three. Addresses the real-world challenges of deploying or upgrading to IMS, including key business and technology drivers.
- Getting to IMS: Migrating the HLR to the HSS
Identifies and helps clarify the key issues likely to be faced in the process of deploying one of the most critical nodes in the IMS network: the Home Subscriber Server (HSS).
- IMS Shifts Network Design and Deployment
by Garrett Choi, VP Business Development
IPTV
- IPTV: A Designer's View
by Mike Coward, CTO
- IPTV Redefines Packet Processing Requirements at the Edge
by Nitin Tomar, PLM
- Addressing the Bandwidth Demands of IPTV
by Mike Coward, CTO
LTE
- LTE - Top 12 Challenges
by Manish Singh, VP of Product Line Management
- LTE E-UTRAN and its Access Side Protocols
by Suyash Tripathi, Vinay Kulkarni, and Alok Kumar
- AdvancedTCA Blade Solutions Provide Seamless Migration to LTE
by Nitin Tomar, Product Line Manager
- Implementing ATCA in LTE Network Serving Gateway Nodes
by Sridharan Natarajan and Karl Wale
- Unlocking LTE: A Protocol Perspective
A primer on the technical aspects of LTE which illustrates multiple key features of this exciting new technology.
- Should LTE Be Deployed Differently than 2G and 3G?
by Manish Singh, VP PLM
- 3G to 4G Core Network Migration
Discussion about the shift of existing 3G infrastructure to 4G, and the benefits and impact of ATCA on the wireless core network.
- Trillium Multi-Core SIP: Why Throughput Matters
With the Trillium Multi-Core optimizations, Trillium SIP on the Netra T5220 improved performance by more than two times to an incredible 6,000 calls per second (CPS) as compared to any previous generation multi-core or multi-threaded processor tested.
Outsourcing
- Telecom Hardware Moving Toward "Buy"
by Brian Wood, VP of Marketing
- Make vs. Buy: The Case for Outsourcing Complete ATCA Systems
by Brian Wood, VP Marketing
- Evaluating COTS vs Emerging Fully Integrated Platforms
by Mike Coward, CTO
- Platform Outsourcing: Faster Time to Market, Higher Availability
Concise explanation of the business case for outsourcing platform development to a horizontally-integrated firm specializing in telecom infrastructure.
- Telecommunications Platforms: Evolution and Revolution
Brief overview of the essential differences between three generations of telecom platform infrastructure.
- O2BnENGRinUSA
by Brian Wood, VP Marketing
Wireless
- 3G, 2.5G, 2G Wireless Network Protocol Stack Comparison
Table comparing the essential protocol stacks involved in the core network, the radio access portion, and other areas of the three network categories.
- Trillium Third Generation (3G) Wireless Software
White paper presenting an overview of technology trends in the wireless market.
- Wireless Network Evolution
Concise yet informative description of the essential differences between three generations of wireless network technology.
Glossary
- Glossary of Networking Terms
Comprehensive list of common networking acronyms and terms used in the telecom industry.
