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Sun Unified Network Platform Reference Architecture for WiMAX

Overview

The buildout of today's 4G networks such as WiMAX requires a dramatic increase in computational resources to adequately deliver flexible telecommunications services to mobile subscribers. Yet business conditions also necessitate that new markets are approached incrementally. The challenge for telecom carriers is to reduce the cost of serving the first subscriber in small or cost-sensitive markets. The Sun Unified Network Platform (SUN-P) Architecture for the WiMAX ASN Gateway offers a radically consolidated, scalable core network architecture based on a new generation of multicore/multithreaded processors. It provides a new approach to building the core network infrastructure, enabling telecom carriers to significantly reduce the cost to serve the first subscriber while providing massive scalability for network expansion. Telecom carriers can benefit from greater business flexibility as well as increased return on investment.

At A Glance

Breakthrough economics based on virtualization technologies and chip multithreading (CMT) using next-generation UltraSPARC® T2 processors
Dramatic reduction in the cost to serve the first subscriber by consolidating both the Control Plane and Data Plane functions onto a single Sun Netra carrier grade rack or ATCA blade server
Faster time to market due to greatly simplified application development in an open architecture with standardized interfaces and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions
Massive scalability by simply adding more processor threads or servers to increase throughput to levels that can exceed the capacity of proprietary-based solutions

Control Plane Services

Routing
Authentication and security
Mobility management
Radio resource management
Connection management

Data Plane and Exception Path Processing Services

Packet forwarding
Header compression
Traffic aggregation
Policy enforcement
Accounting and statistics

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