NewGrid Trusted Wireless Access Gateway (TWAG)

LTE Data and Voice

Applications
Clientless I-WLAN Interworking Data Offload / Local Breakout

With the introduction of Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, subscribers are offered greater bandwidth and data speeds. This has encouraged the introduction of even higher-definition video streams and other data intensive services. In addition, operators have begun announcing plans to launch voice over LTE (VoLTE) services. But all of this has only created new challenges for the service providers. After having spent significant amounts of capital to secure and deploy their LTE networks, operators are having to support data intensive services at little to no revenue. Operators are also finding that their current LTE deployments are unable to provide sufficient coverage to support VoLTE at the level of experience expected by subscribers. This has led operators to consider integrating their WLAN networks to not only offload the non-revenue generating Internet traffic but fill the gaps in coverage.

Feature Highlights
Enhanced QoS features 30 Gbps of IPsec throughput per

packet blade Able to support large service deployments of tens of thousands of WiFi APs Robust and Resilient CarrierGrade Solution using Standard ATCA-based Platform delivering five-nines (99.999%) availability

Introducing NewGrid Trusted Wireless Access Gateway

The NewGrid Trusted Wireless Access Gateway (TWAG) enables operators to integrate their WiFi access and LTE core networks while allowing the offload of non-revenue generating Internet data.

Network Configuration
E-UTRAN S-GW S11 eNodeB IPsec WiFi WiFi AP Open IP Network TWAG W-AAA RAN S5 S2b SWm P-GW EPC Gx S6b SGi Operators Service Network PCRF AAA

Offload

Internet

NewGrid Trusted Wireless Access Gateway

Secure Wireless Mobility and Offload
The NewGrid TWAG utilizes state of the art authentication protocols and encryption algorithms to establish secure IPsec tunnels between the WiFi AP and the operator core. It also supports a variety of mobility and tunneling protocols to support service when subscribers roam between WiFi and LTE coverage. And the TWAG has features that can effectively identify and route certain traffic directly to the Internet, significantly reducing the amount of unnecessary traffic congestion in the core network.

Performance and Hardware

A high performance solution, the TWAG is able to establish up to 20,000 IPsec tunnels per packet blade. Available in a variety of standards-based AdvancedTCA (ATCA) chassis, the TWAG is a highly scalable solution that can seamless range up to 180 Gbps of throughput. The TWAG is a NEBS3 compliant solution with a fully redundant architecture assuring no single point of failure and enabling five nines (99.999%) high availability. And since every critical component is hotswappable, operators are guaranteed uninterrupted service.

Benefits and Summary

By enabling operators to integrate their WiFi access networks and offload traffic, the TWAG can significantly reduce CAPEX and OPEX by eliminating the need to increase capacity, both in the access network (using widely available WiFi APs) and the core (by offloading non-revenue generating traffic). All the while improving the customer experience by reducing traffic congestion. The NewGrid Trusted Wireless Access Gateway is the ideal solution for operators seeking to a cost-effective solution to optimize their LTE networks by integrating their WiFi access networks.
Feature Features Function Internet Key Exchange* Encryption* IKE Client Authentication* AAA Interworking QoS Description IKEv1, IKEv2 DES-CBC, 3DES-CBC, AES-CBC, AES-CTR, NULL PSK, X.509, EAP-MD5 / AKA / SIM / TTLS DIAMETER / RADIUS support DSCP based QoS enforcement 5 tuple based QoS enforcement 3 level hierarchical priority / bandwidth control Ingress bandwidth control per VLAN Static / OSPF / BGP Graceful Restart IPinIP / GRE* / IPsec* PMIPv6* / GTP-C & GTP-U* CLI, SNMP(v2/v3), EMS 30 Gbps (full duplex) per packet blade Up to 20,000 per packet blade * Optional Feature

Routing Mobility & Tunneling Management Performance Throughput (max) Concurrent tunnels (max)

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