Home eNodeB Gateway

Radisys has a deep understanding of Small Cells and the key necessity for network equipment providers to deliver Small Cell Access Point (e.g., Home NodeB, Home eNodeB, Picocell, and Microcell) devices plus Small Cell Gateway (Home NodeB, Home eNodeB, Picocell and Microcell) infrastructure quickly and cost-effectively.

Small cells are strategic for Radisys; we have over 30 Small Cell wins.

We invested early (and heavily) in Trillium software and ATCA platforms to deliver deployment-ready Small Cell Access Point reference platforms and ATCA solutions that support Small Cell Gateway applications.

A Small Cell Gateway (e.g., Home eNodeB Gateway) aggregates small cell access point traffic backhauled over fixed line broadband links such as cable modem, DSL or fiber. The HeNB-GW application routes traffic according to service type: voice to the IuCS interface of the mobile core network and packet data to the IuPS interface. In addition, traffic destined for the Internet may be off-loaded at the HeNB=GW to minimize impact on the wireless core network.

A HeNB-GW system solution would typically include control plane and forwarding applications as core modules. A customer might also equip the system with Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) capabilities to support policy enforcement as well as a security module to meet Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) requirements related to the Internet offload function (country-specific requirements).

Solution Example: Home eNodeB Gateway

Radisys can deliver to network equipment providers a Home eNodeB Gateway solution consisting of:

Trillium-powered LTE protocol stack portfolio

• Distributed Fault-Tolerant / Highly Available architecture

Access to valuable intellectual property

• Pre-integrated stacks for control and bearer plane functions
• Reference HeNB-GW solution which serves as a solid framework and starting point
• Framework for stack management interface and FT/HA architecture that can be easily extended

Integrated ATCA system and related platform management

• ATCA-45xx blades for control plane traffic
• Single L5638 Six Core Westmere (60W)
• ATCA-PP81 blades for packet processing / User Plane

Security Gateway SEG-100

• Turnkey self-contained ATCA blade plus SEG and firewall functionality
• Unique carrier-grade High Availability: IKE/IPSec state preservation
• Focused on 3GPP use cases: HNB SEGW, I-WLAN, LTE NDS

Full product lifecycle services

• Consulting, benchmarking, architecture design, etc.
• Dedicated teams with specific HeNB-GW and LTE experience
• Design, development, and testing services
• Global Technical Support Agreement (TSA) supporting customers' operator deployments

Standards Compliance

• Home eNodeB Standards
  • 3GPP TS 36.300 v9.0.0 (June-09) Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network: Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network

• Key 3GPP Protocol Standards
  • LTE HNB support through Rel-9 Updates to protocols to support Home eNodeB Standards