Mavenir’s relevance in wireless NGN
At the recent GSMA World Congress, Mavenir Systems announced that it has been selected by three Tier1 mobile operators across three different continents. The company named only one Tier1 mobile operator Viettal out of Vietnam. The other customers include one GSM operator in North America and a multi country operator in Europe.
The main features of Mavenir’s ICS product include its mapping of features available on the legacy MSCs. Moreover, Mavenir has a few apps of its own that bring in Presence and IM. Mavenir Systems does not tie into subscriber feature servers like those of Broadsoft. Mavenir’s product rather replaces feature servers like Broadsoft. The company is building its platform to offset the gaps that exist in subscriber feature servers like Broadsoft.
Although vendors like Broadsoft are trying to cater to both fixed as well as wireless operators using a single underlying feature server, gaps exist because features such as call conferencing, or call waiting work differently in a fixed environment as compared to a wireless set up.
As in fixed environment platforms like Broadsoft helped operators bypass the interim stage of packetizing the core, Mavenir lets its mobile operators use their existing MSC (packetized or non-packetized) to offer services to standard SIP or IMS clients over WiFi, WiMAX and LTE. The solution also reduces OPEX of maintaining two overlapping voice cores, as offered by traditional vendors like Ericsson, NSN and Alcatel-Lucent.
The vendor proposes an alternative procedure for operators that have not packetized their voice core.
