Mobile Video Solutions

Video Mobility is Center Stage

The Mobile Video Experience

Mobile applications in 3G networks are already taking advantage of advanced handsets, high speed wireless Internet access, and integration with the functionality offered by cellular mobile networks. And video content access will play an increasingly more prominent role in the user's mobile experience, establishing the usage of communications, entertainment, and information access in high definition quality as table stakes.

Mobile Network Technology	Maximum Download Speed
3G	2 Mbps
3.5G	14 Mbps 42Mbps
WiMAX	2 Mbps
4G	326 Mbps

As mobile data speeds increase video, applications will increase in video resolution and mobile devices will begin to displace dedicated video devices and traditional, fixed line broadband video distribution.

The higher speed mobile networks such as LTE and WiMAX will contribute substantially to improving the video application's throughput and responsiveness, significantly enhancing a user's mobile video experience, and enable greater demand for applications such as interactive TV, video mail, video conferencing, etc.

Market Trends

From the technical perspective, the growing industry push behind the deployment of 3.5G/4G/WiMAX networks with higher bandwidths is spurring greater demand for mobile video services. From the marketing perspective, mobile operators that have deployed such networks are looking for revenue-generating services to offset their large infrastructure investments. Operators are making decisions today on how to advance their core networks with IP components such as Video Media Servers to meet the needs of delivering mobile video services.

Technology Requirements

Mobile Video Network Architectures

3.5G HSPA mobile data network technology is the next wave of high speed mobile data access for established 3G networks. LTE radio access networks will continue with speed enhancements for 3GPP conformant networks as they evolve from UMTS to Evolved Packet Core (EPC) networks. LTE is a set of enhancements to UMTS introduced in 3GPP Release 8. WiMAX, just like 3GPP cellular mobile networks, will take advantage of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as well for video services.

Video Media Servers, configured as part of the core IMS network environment and powered by the latest technologies will play a critical role in helping operators deliver high ARPU video services.

The adaptability of the Video Media Server to various broadband mobile networks is the key to it successfully delivering mobile video services as shown in the diagram above. Both the wireless core and access networks will change dramatically to support higher bandwidth data mobility and simplify network topologies to serve an ever increasing population of mobile subscribers. So the Video Media Server not only has to integrate multiple component functions that interface to the existing network, but needs to gracefully upgrade to include new functions and interfaces to avoid fork lift upgrades.

The Video Media Server's functions can include various functions including:

• Media processing resources and control
• IMS network interfaces
• Interfaces to RSTP and video content server
• Media gateway connectivity
• Application servers running mobile video applications

These components can be configured as needed to maximize media processing density along with other functions such as an Application Server inside the same chassis. Again, the purpose of this multi-purpose ATCA design is to configure and scale as needed within a compact footprint in order for video services to be deployed quickly, economically, and with a high degree of serviceability.

Radisys ATCA Mobile Video Solutions

The commercially proven, ATCA open hardware specification is designed from the ground up to meet the demanding need of evolving networks and video services with service delivery packaging that provides unparalleled scalability, responsiveness, modularity, and flexibility to meet ever increasing mobile video usage.

Radisys provides Applicaton Ready ATCA Platforms for Video Media Server. RadiSys offers the broadest portfolio of ATCA products that includes switching, x86 based, packet processing and media processing boards with latest silicon technologies to deliver optimal configurations for the Video Server. RadiSys ATCA Application ready platform also includes integrated chassis, OS, diagnostics, system manager, and high availability middleware. This platform can be configured for robust performance for both 10G and 40G technologies.

Below, is a typical configuration of Video Media Server using RadiSys Promentum Platform Elements:

Learn more about Promentum Application Ready Platforms and building blocks for this application at:

• RadiSys Promentum SYS-6016:10 GB (16 slot) Application Ready Platform
• RadiSys Promentum ATCA-9100 TI: ATCA Media Resource Module
• RadiSys Promentum ATCA-9100 F: ATCA Media Resource Module
• RadiSys Promentum ATCA- 4500: 10 GB Compute Processing Module
• RadiSys Promentum ATCA-2210: 10 GB Ethernet Switch and Control Module