WiChorus SmartCore Platforms

SmartCore Platforms
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 Users are demanding a rich and satisfying broadband experience from wireless connectivity.
The availability of new types of multimedia content and applications through the internet
and the need to stay connected are creating an increased demand for multimedia-capable
wireless broadband. In essence, users want to be able to carry the richness of the internet in
their pockets, to stay informed and to collaborate through multimedia-capable applications,
whenever they want and wherever they are. This user demand creates a uniquely large and
potentially rapidly growing business opportunity for wireless operators.

Wireless data will be a US $200B market opportunity for

operators by 2011*. 4G air-link technologies based on
OFDMA with MIMO, coupled with an all-IP-based infra-
structure, provide the basis of high-capacity, content-rich
wireless data networks.

Worldwide Operator Data Revenue ($M ) With growth flattening in cellular voice, user demand for
rich wireless data is providing a rare growth opportunity for
B andw idt h operators. However, rich wireless data comes with its own
D em and challenges, as ARPU through traditional billing mechanisms
is not expected to be in proportion to consumer appetite for
data services, multimedia content and multicast video.
On the one hand, operators must deploy a network and
operate it cost effectively, keeping CAPEX and OPEX low.
ARPU
On the other hand, operators need to enable new and non-
Time
traditional means of revenue to increase the effective ARPU
for wireless data networks. Aggregation of network functions
ARPU is not keeping pace with on a common platform lowers CAPEX, while lowering
bandwidth demand OPEX requires efficient utilization of network assets and
simplified network operation. New means of monetization
require comprehensive and real-time intelligence about
customer requirements and behavior, including location
and content used, as well as the ability to flexibly and
smartly offer on-the fly service differentiation based on
these characteristics.

* source: Yankee Group

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In essence, service providers need a smarter wireless core
for IP-based 4G networks that can learn from content at
line speed and apply that knowledge to selectively adapt
the network, enable new revenue-generating opportunities
and dynamically optimize both the network and services.
Service providers also need the flexibility to enable new
services rapidly. WiChorus SmartCore™ platforms enable
such intelligent networks and services.
SmartCore Platform Architecture:
WiChorus SmartCore platforms are custom-built for next-
generation OFDMA-based all-IP 4G networks, enabling a
service provider to capture the unique growth opportunity
of multimedia-rich data networks in a very profitable fashion.
SmartCore platforms have an unprecedented combination
of intelligent content-handling capabilities, massive
scalability, flexible service differentiation, non-traditional
charging functions, dynamic policy enforcement, mobility
management, network optimizations and enormous
bandwidth needed for 4G.
WiChorus SmartCore platforms are designed to accommo-
date a rich set of content handling and control-path
functionality with maximum performance, minimum
latency and massive scalability. To achieve this, WiChorus
SmartCore platforms employ a combination of processing
elements and hardware engines carefully designed for the
specific tasks and intelligence needed at all levels of
functionality. Hundreds of these processing elements and
hardware engines collaborating in a fully loaded large
system, combined with highly distributed and modular
software design, enable the massive processing and learn-
ing capabilities of SmartCore platforms. SmartCore future
proofs the mobile core for advances in 4G technologies.
Future-proof capacity:
4G’s OFDMA radio links, together with evolving improvement
in MIMO and AAS, can generate more than 10 times the
data of 3G radio links, creating new performance demands
on the mobile core. WiChorus SmartCore platforms are
designed to deliver line-rate services at these higher
capacities, unlike alternative solutions evolving from 3G.
With the proliferation of new services, and an ever growing
base of wireless subscribers, the next-generation wireless
core will also need to support a much larger number of
service flows. WiChorus’ unique architecture supports
millions of dynamically created service flows in a single
system, including full QoS classification and policing
capabilities for each flow.
Smarter Networks and Services:
The ever-increasing trend towards subscribers accessing
services through the Internet threatens to turn service
providers into “dumb pipes.” The SmartCore platform,
however, offers capabilities that prevent this from happening.
With its unique ability to learn from content and location,
match flexible policies and manage bandwidth on a
per-subscriber, per-application or per-policy basis, the
SmartCore platform allows operators to capitalize on
service differentiation. These capabilities provide new
opportunities to monetize the internet, as well as the
means to offer better services than competitors.
Comprehensive Subscriber and Service Management:
A subscriber is a service provider’s most important asset,
and knowledge of a subscriber’s state information is
crucial to providing excellent service. The SmartCore platform’s
content inspection capabilities and ample resources for
state information enable it to support QoS, policy enforce-
ment and charging for a large number of subscribers.
Dramatic Increase in Speed
per Channel
Mbps : 150
100
50
EVDO- A HSDPA 4G
OFDMA-based WiMAX and
4G technologies offer much
greater bandwidth
 With an ever increasing trend
Internet towards subscribers accessing
services through the internet, the
SmartCore platform offers capabili-
ties that prevent a service provider
Hosted Services CSN from becoming just a “dumb pipe”.
The platform’s advanced content
management features and extensive
accounting enable creative new
revenue models.

With visibility across all subscribers

S M A R T C ORE and base stations, the SmartCore
platform is ideally suited to optimize
network resources, including load
balancing, seamless handovers,
peer-to-peer traffic management and
backhaul optimization.

The SmartCore platform plays a

critical role in intelligently delivering
services to subscribers with optimal
QoS processing, advanced security
and extensive accounting and
charging models.

Leveraging hundreds of processing

elements and hardware engines in a
highly distributed design, the Smart-
Core platform’s unique architecture
enables massive scalability.
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Network Service Consolidation:
The SmartCore platform can consolidate multiple applica-
tions and network functions that traditionally have been
hosted on separate boxes in the network. These services
include peer-to-peer traffic management, new charging
functions, QoS/policy enforcement, filtering and compres-
sion. Consolidation gives service providers the benefits of
reduced capital expenditure, simplified networks, easier
management and reduced latency. Consolidation also
enables sharing of key information between network func-
tions, which enables compelling and unique optimizations.
Seamless Mobility Across Multiple Access Technologies:
SmartCore platforms provide optimized mobility manage-
ment across multiple access technologies ensuring a
smooth migration path to 4G network architectures. The
unique design ensures low-latency, seamless handovers of
real-time IP streams for WiMAX and LTE—along with han-
dover support for GPRS, UTRAN and EV-DO Rev A networks.
These capabilities provide GSM and CDMA operator’s flex-
ibility as they deploy next generation wireless technologies
alongside existing networks. In addition, the SmartCore
platforms support non-traditional access technologies like
I-WLAN and femtocells enabling delivery of converged ser-
vices across both mobile and fixed access networks.
Comprehensive Network Visibility:
With the ability to incisively inspect content and gather
statistics based a broad range of policies, the SmartCore
platform offers service providers a very clear picture about
the usage of network resources and user behavior. This real
time insight can be used by service providers to optimize
their networks, improve services, add new revenue streams
or differentiate their services as compared to their competitors
Intelligent Network Optimization:
The wireless core is an opportune location for network-level
resource optimizations. The SmartCore platform’s network-lev-
el intelligence, load-balancing features and hardware capabil-
ities for line-rate compression and traffic management enable
backhaul and spectral optimizations. These optimizations
improve the service provider’s bottom line and profitability.
Connectivity to the Operator Core Network:
The SmartCore platform provides a rich set of features to con-
nect the access gateway or the mobility anchor to the operator
core network. It supports VLANs, LAGs, MPLS, Routing protocols,
Smart Filtering, ACLs and various tunneling mechanisms to
connect to the packet core network and other external networks.
Carrier Grade:
SmartCore platforms are designed to ensure maximum
availability. The fully modular, NEBS-3 system has exten-
sive redundancy and availability features in both hardware
and software to ensure a minimum of five 9’s availability.
The platform includes the following features:
• State preservation across software and hardware modules
• Checkpoint management service
• Application availability framework
• Hot-swap capability
• Self-healing re-startable services and applications
• In-service software upgrades and patch management
Service providers can deploy WiChorus solutions with con-
fidence, knowing the hardware and software architectures
have been designed to deliver maximum uptime and
availability for mobile broadband networks.
Intuitive Management:
The SmartCore family supports Command Line Interface
(CLI) with telnet, SSH and local login through the console
port or Ethernet port.
WiChorus also offers an advanced Element Management
System (EMS) that provides an intuitive interface for
complete management of SmartCore platforms. This sys-
tem provides FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Administration,
Performance and Security) management functionality. In
addition to providing visibility into the WiChorus elements
of the network, the EMS provides insights about wireless
subscribers, offering service providers a comprehensive
understanding of their customers.
With their throughput and capacity, built-in support for
mobility and packet-processing intelligence, SmartCore
platforms are ideally suited for the following wireless
network functions:
HSPA and LTE Mobile Packet Core
• PDN Gateway (PGW)
• GGSN
• Serving Gateway (SGW)
• Femto Gateway
• Mobility Management Entity (MME)
WiMAX Mobile Packet Core
• ASN Gateway
• Home Agent
• Mobile Internet Gateway
• Pico and Femto Gateways
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S martCore Mod el s:
Welcome to the next generation
of flatter, smarter, IP-based wireless
core networks
The SmartCore platforms also offers the following
network independent value-added functions:
• Network Intelligence & Mobile Analytics
• Content Control & Network Optimization
• Content Monetization & Mobile Advertising
• Internet Breakout
The highly distributed and modular design of the SmartCore
family allows it to scale to a range of different form-factors.
All the SmartCore platforms benefit from the advanced
hardware and software capabilities purpose-built for
the WiMAX and 4G wireless core. The SmartCore family
includes:
• SmartCore SC 1400: a 14-slot carrier-grade
modular platform
• SmartCore SC 600: a 6-slot carrier-grade
modular platform
• SmartCore SC 100: a 10 port appliance
• SmartCore SC 20: a 2 port appliance
A combination of following blades and hardware module
comprise a SmartCore platform.
System Cards:
IPP Intelligent Packet Processor:
The Intelligent Packet Processor provides high-performance
content management capabilities, along with distributed
control-plane processing resources.
IOM IPP Rear I/O Module:
The IPP Rear I/O Module provides 10G Ethernet or
multiple 1G Ethernet interfaces.
SXC Base Fabric Card:
The Switch Fabric Card provides a non-blocking switch
fabric for the SmartCore SC 1400.
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SC 1400 Pla tfo rm

The SC 1400 provides up to 100
ports of Gigabit Ethernet capacity in a
single carrier-grade, modular
chassis. Its massive packet processing
capability, ample resources for state
information and fully redundant
design ensures carriers maximum
performance, subscriber capacity and
availability for the largest networks.
SC 1400
S pecifications
No of Slots 14
Chassis Size 13 RU x 19 inch
Dimensions 22.75” x 19” x 19.94(deep)”
Weight 162 lbs (max)
Backplane Dual Star, Fully redundant backplane
DC Power Redundant, hot swappable -48V DC power modules
I/O Ports Up to 100 1Gbps ports or 10 x 10Gbps ports or a combination
(Copper and Fiber Options)

E nvironment
Temperature: Operating 0 to 40 C, -5 to 50 C short-term
Humidity: 5% to 90% RH non-condensing

R egulator y and C ompliance

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC):
FCC part 15B Class A
EN 300 386
VCCI (Japan)
C-TICK (AZ/NZ)
Safety:
UL/C-UL No. 60950-1
EN60950-1
C-TICK (AZ/NZ)
Network Equipment Building System Level 3 (NEBS-3):
GR-1089-CORE, EMC and Electrical safety
GR-63-CORE, Environmental
ROHS/WEEE Compliance
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SC 60 0 Pla tfo rm

The SC 600 provides up to 40 ports
of Gigabit Ethernet capacity in a
single carrier-grade, modular chassis.
With its compact 5U form factor, the
SC 600 delivers impressive perfor-
mance and subscriber density for
medium size networks.
SC 600
S pecifications
No of Slots 6
Chassis Size 5 RU x 19 inch
Dimensions 8.73” x 19” x 20(deep)”
Weight 90 lbs (max)
Backplane Dual Star, Fully redundant backplane
DC Power Redundant, hot swappable -48V DC power modules
I/O Ports Up to 40 1Gbps ports or 4 x 10Gbps ports or a combination (Copper and Fiber Options)

E nvironment
Temperature: Operating 0 to 40 C, -5 to 50 C short-term
Humidity: 5% to 90% RH non-condensing

R egulator y and C ompliance

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC):
FCC part 15B Class A
EN 300 386
VCCI (Japan)
C-TICK (AZ/NZ)
Safety:
UL/C-UL No. 60950-1
EN60950-1
C-TICK (AZ/NZ)
Network Equipment Building System Level 3 (NEBS-3):
GR-1089-CORE, EMC and Electrical safety
GR-63-CORE, Environmental
ROHS/WEEE Compliance
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SC 10 0 & SC 20 Applia n ce s

The SC 100 provides 10 ports of
Gigabit Ethernet capacity in a high
performance appliance form factor.
The SC 20 provides 2 ports of
Gigabit Ethernet capacity.
These platforms are ideally suited
for smaller networks or geographi-
cally distributed designs, where a
fully redundant architecture is not
required.
SC 100 & SC 20
S pecifications
Chassis Size 3 RU x 19 inch
Dimensions 3.2” x 19” x 16.275”
Weight 39 lbs (max)
AC Power AC 110V to 240V, (Redundant standard on SC100, optional on SC 20)­­­
Management Port Ethernet, Console, USB
I/O Ports SC 100: 10 x 1Gbps (Copper and Fiber options)
SC 20: 2 x 1Gbps (Copper and Fiber options)
E nvironment
Temperature: Operating 0 to 40 C, -5 to 50 C short-term
Humidity: 5% to 90% RH non-condensing

R egulator y and C ompliance

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC):
FCC part 15B Class A
EN 300 386
VCCI (Japan)
C-TICK (AZ/NZ)
Safety:
UL/C-UL No. 60950-1
EN60950-1
C-TICK (AZ/NZ)
ROHS/WEEE Compliance
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About WiChorus
WiChorus is an industry leader in Smart 4G Packet Core
infrastructure products. Its purpose-built SmartCore plat-
form’s unmatched performance with integrated content
and network intelligence enables operators to deploy smart
HSPA, LTE and WiMAX Packet Core networks, that optimize
network resources, deliver new revenue generating services
and monetize the Internet.

With headquarter offices in San Jose, California, WiChorus is

a private company with financial backing from Accel Partners,
Mayfield Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Pinnacle Ventures.

For more information, please visit www.wichorus.com.

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