Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley  Home         Topics: Main | Service Providers | IMS | Fixed Mobile Convergence  |  Softswitch | Session Border Controllers |  Silicon  | VoWiFi  |  VoIP Regulatory Issues  | VoCable | Europe  | Latin America  | China  | Archive |     NextPoint Enhances Integrated Border Gateway, Adding PDIF and Tunnel Termination Gateway NextPoint announced a number of mobility enhancements to its Integrated Border Gateway (IBG) including Packet Data Interworking Functionality (PDIF) and Tunnel Termination Gateway (TTG) capabilities -- key capabilities enabling seamless handoffs in Wi-Fi FMC or femtocell services deployed by mobile operators. NextPoint's IBG, which consolidates Session Border Controller (SBC) capabilities with Security Gateway (SeGW) in a single ATCA-based platform, now includes an IP Mobility Suite that provides Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF) to support CDMA-based operators and Tunnel Termination Gateway (TTG) for GSM/UMTS-based operators. This session tunneling functionality enables mobile roaming between multiple IP networks. The platform scales to support hundreds of thousands of IPsec tunnels and subscribers per blade. Nextpoint said its PDIF and TTG IP Mobility Suite will extend beyond voice roaming to include "combinational" voice and data services to mobile IP users, ensuring subscribers' continuity experience across IP networks for both sessions and data. As part of NextPoint's FMC solutions, which enable seamless handoff of voice and data across service providers' networks, PDIF is applied to CDMA mobile networks for interworking wireless local area network (WLAN) deployments, including Wi-Fi and Femtocell applications, as well as WiMAX deployments. TTG -- a subset of the Packet Data Gateway (PDG) specification -- is applied to UMTS networks for inter-worked WLAN or WiMAX deployments. PDIF and TTG rely upon and enhance the security gateway to protect resources and packet data services from unauthorized access. NextPoint now offers three versions of the IBG. One version provides a single-component security gateway while a second version integrates intelligent session management capabilities. These two versions provide intelligent edge solutions to mobile and fixed-line operators' to address their requirements for management and implementation of network elements from access edge to network core. http://www.nextpointnetworks.com 02-Apr-08 Related Video ShoreTel Step Up with Release 11 of UC Platform 7/23/2010 Vendors back POLQA -- Mobile Voice Quality Testing Standard 7/16/2010 VoLGA Forum Expands Voice-Over-LTE Capabilities 7/12/2010 Broadvox Partner with Grandstream on SMB IP Communications 7/9/2010 Alcatel-Lucent Releases Multimodal Communication App 7/7/2010 Vodafone Portugal Selects NSN's Service Broker 6/30/2010 Ooma's iPhone App Offloads AT&T Voice Minutes 6/30/2010 Avaya and HP Expand Enterprise Collaboration 6/29/2010 Video: Ooma -- Voice Innovation at the Customer Edge 6/29/2010 Vopium Raises $16.5 Million for Mobile Alternative Skype 6/25/2010 BT Offers GENBAND's Carrier-Hosted Communications in Spain 6/24/2010 GENBAND Unveils ATCA-based Genius Platform 6/22/2010 Google Voice Hits One Million Users 6/22/2010 Broadsoft Completes IPO -- Nasdaq: BSFT 6/16/2010 Elektrobit Shows Ruggedized VoIP Phones 6/15/2010 Juniper Research: Mobile VoIP users to exceed 100 million by 2012 6/1/2010 Avaya to Sell Stake in AGC Networks to Essar 5/28/2010 ACCESS and OKI ACCESS Offer VoIP Solution for Smartphones 5/27/2010 Video: Ribbit's Voice Innovation Platform 5/26/2010 AT&T Hit with Nationwide U-Verse Voice Outage 5/25/2010 Verizon Global Wholesale's VoIP minutes Grow 200% 5/25/2010 BT Enhances Onevoice with its Ribbit Softswitching Platform 5/25/2010 HP and Alcatel-Lucent Partner on Unified Communications 5/24/2010 The SIP Forum and i3 Forum Partner on Fax Interoperability 5/20/2010 SITA Selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks 5/20/2010 > More news... > More news > VoIP News archives   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton Does Network Neutrality Impact DPI? by James Brear