Aricent, Cavium join forces for LTE Evolved Packet Core development

To offer EPC Serving Gateway, PDN Gateway and Mobility Management Entity software frameworks for Octeon Multi-core MIPS64 processor family

Aricent, a technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, has formed a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Evolved Packet Core (EPC) development collaboration with Cavium Networks, a provider of semiconductor products for networking, wireless, storage and video applications.

Under this collaboration, the companies will offer pre-optimised and performance-enhanced EPC Serving Gateway (SGW), PDN Gateway (PGW) and Mobility Management Entity (MME) software frameworks for Cavium's Octeon Multi-core MIPS64 processor family.

The companies claim that this collaboration creates significant technology synergies, offering LTE equipment manufacturers a performance-enhanced software frameworks for their EPC platforms.

According to Aricent, its LTE EPC software framework is based upon the company’s Diameter and GTP product stacks. The frameworks are pre-integrated control plane software modules suitable for LTE Macro/Micro EPC nodes, supporting SGW, PGW and MME capabilities.

In addition, the frameworks integrate the control plane (signalling) functionality of the EPC node into a package, simplifying development of EPC offerings.

Reportedly, the Octeon Processor family consists of processors with 1 to 32 cores on a single chip with integrated multiple GEs, 10GEs, sRIO, PCI-express or PCI-X networking interfaces with hardware for packet processing, TCP, IPsec, KASUMI, SNOW 3G, ROHC, compression / decompression and deep packet inspection.

YJ Kim, senior director of networking and communications division at Cavium, said: “Combining Aricent’s LTE expertise and software technology with Octeon Multi-core MIPS64 processors will provide our mutual customers with an optimised, robust and reliable solution for EPC applications.

“Together, Aricent and Cavium will reduce OEM development time and engineering cost for all Macro and Mini EPC node types. Building upon our existing eNodeB solution, we now offer a complete range of LTE network elements for our joint customers.”

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