This documents describes briefly the EPC and the Market Share of the Packet Core

1. Extreme Packet Core
EPC
Rogelio Gomez – May 2011

2. Agenda
• Technology Basis
• Vendors Analysis
• Market Analysis

3. Technology Basis
• The EPC was introduced in the R8 of 3GPP in 2009 and is
constantly being improved currently in Rel 11 -not frozen-
• The general Architecture and names of each interfaces changed
• Real All-IP Solution the Voice is a service of IMS
• Improvements in the Access from the Radio point of view speeds
upto 300 Mbps DL
• The architecture of the RAN simplified with a single -eNodeB-
• Completely Separated control plane and data plane allow better
QoS Management

4. Technology Basis
HSS
S6
SGi IP Network - IMS
eNodeb MME/SGW PDN GW
S2a
S1 - Single point of
interface with Core Trusted IP Access

5. Vendors Analysis
• Huawei - GGSN9811
• Cisco - ASR 5000 (Starent)
• Ericsson – CPG & MPG
• NSN – Flexi NG/NS

6. Huawei
• Capacity 100 Gbps (nominal)
• DPI Capacity 20 Gbps
• 100 M subs
• Support 10 GE Interface
• Core Router Platform

7. Cisco (Starent)
• Support 10 GE Card
• 320 Gbps Bus
• 60 M PDP
• Strong DPI Capacity
• Proprietary platform

8. Ericsson
Mobile Packet Gateway
• Throughput 20 Gbps
• 6 M PDP
• EPC Evolution
• Juniper Platform
• DPI Capacity
Converged Packet Gateway
• 480 Gbps platform
• Smartedge platform from Redback
• Single platform for Serving and Gateway
• 10 GE Interface
• DPI Capacity

9. NSN
• ATCA for Serving and Gateway
• Flexi NG for Gateway
– Throughput 50 Gbps
– Up to 5 M PDP
• Flexi NS for Serving
– Up to 2 M subs
– 4500 TPS

10. Packet Core Market Analysis
• Huawei has 41%
• Ericsson 23%
• NSN 14% Market Share
Others
22%
Huawei
41%
NSN
14%
Ericsson
23%

11. World distribution
Cisco Brazil USA Mexico
Ericsson Korea Sweden Argentina Pakistan Australia
NSN India China Australia
Huawei Germany Spain Brazil Argentina Peru

12. Thank you!
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