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WiChorus Intelligent ASN Gateway

Users are demanding a rich and satisfying broadband experience from the wireless connectiv-
ity. Increasingly, users are looking for a similar media-rich broadband internet experience in
the wireless world as they have in the wired world. Service providers are eager to capture this
enormous opportunity, but need a cost-effective, scalable solution, as well as creative new
ways to monetize these services.

Combining the advances of OFDMA technology with the power of IP networking, mobile WiMAX
has emerged as an ideal architecture to provide these services. Mobile WiMAX offers greater
bandwidth than previous technologies, an open ecosystem that promises compelling eco-
I N T E L L I G E N T nomics and a simplified, flatter architecture that reduces complexity and cost. It has been
designed for IP traffic from the beginning and has robust QoS support to handle real-time
multimedia traffic such as video, gaming, and streaming music.
ASN Gateway

W i M A X

High Performance, Scalable Platform

Carrier Grade Design for High Availability

Content-based Service Differentiation

Peer-to-Peer Traffic Management

Advanced Accounting & Billing

Extensive QoS Support

Dynamic Load Balancing

Backhaul Optimization & Compression

Seamless Mobility Support

High Transaction Capability with low latency

WiMAX Forum NWG Compliant

Available in Multiple Form Factors

 SmartCore Platforms Intelligent ASN Gateway
Enabling Intelligent Wireless Networks
In the era of rapidly-increasing bandwidth demand but flat
to decreasing ARPUs, service providers need smarter wire-
less networks to improve margins. These smarter networks
can offer service providers greater control of their network
to optimize operational costs and enable new revenue
streams.
WiChorus is a pioneer in developing carrier-grade,
Intelligent ASN Gateway solutions that address these
requirements. The WiChorus intelligent ASN Gateway sits
in the heart of the WiMAX network, with visibility across all
subscribers and packet flows. Based on the industry-lead-
ing SmartCoreTM platform, the WiChorus solution intelligently
aggregates high capacity base stations while ensuring line
rate QoS, accounting and security for millions of subscriber
service flows. Leveraging ASN Gateway’s strategic position
in the network, the WiChorus solution also provides back-
haul and spectral optimizations that maximize utilization
of valuable network assets. Service providers can leverage
the WiChorus intelligent ASN Gateway solution to capitalize
on service differentiation opportunities, effectively monitor
and control traffic in the network, manage subscriber con-
nections and reduce overall operating costs. Based on the
WiMAX Forum’s NWG standards, the WiChorus solution is
designed to work with any NWG-compliant base station,
enabling service providers to choose best of breed solu-
tions for each component of their network.
High Capacity and Scalability
The WiChorus Intelligent ASN Gateway is offered on the
full range of SmartCore platforms, ensuring exceptional
performance and scalability. Designed to accommodate
higher capacity OFDMA radio links the SmartCore platforms
deliver much greater performance than traditional 3G
oriented offerings, along with line-rate QoS classification,
policing and statistics. In addition to high data capacity,
the WiChorus Intelligent ASN Gateway supports millions
of dynamically created service flows, ensuring sufficient
capacity for the largest networks.
Content Management
User demand for ubiquitous broadband internet access
presents operators with practical challenges along with
potential new revenue opportunities. Peer-to-peer video
download applications, for example, can quickly consume
network resources and impact the performance of the over-
all network. Based on service providers defined policies,
WiChorus solutions can identify and throttle peer-to-peer
traffic, ensuring optimal performance of the network for all
subscribers.
With the ability to manage bandwidth at a granular level,
and a deep understanding of real-time content, WiChorus’
Intelligent ASN Gateway also enables service providers to
create unique and differentiated services. These capabili-
ties, such as location-based ad-insertion, can be used in
creative ways to monetize the Internet and to provide
alternative revenue sources to traditional subscriber fees.
Subscriber Management
The WiChorus Intelligent ASN Gateway has complete
visibility of subscribers within the network, and leverages
this information to help service providers offer intelligent
scalable solutions tailored to subscriber’s requirements.
The WiChorus solution provides support for address
assignment, authentication, QoS authorization, and service
flow creation. In addition, security policies can be admin-
istered at a very granular level. Leveraging the SmartCore
platform, the Intelligent ASN Gateway provides ample
system resources to manage a large number of subscribers
for either fixed or mobile deployments.
 Robust QoS
Anticipating the desire for a variety of media-rich applica-
tions and services, WiChorus designed the SmartCore fam-
ily with extensive QoS and packet processing capabilities
to identify and manage traffic on a per subscriber, per flow
and per application basis . The WiChorus solution supports
creation, deletion and modification of services flows in
accordance with the WiMAX Forum’s standard QoS profiles.
Furthermore, the WiChorus intelligent ASN Gateway
provides shaping and policing of these flows to deliver
a consistent end-to-end experience for subscribers. The
WiChorus ASN Gateway solution also maps these service
flows to IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) framework
for transport across IP networks. In addition to providing
per subscriber/per flow traffic management, the WiChorus
intelligent ASN Gateway can dynamically apply QoS based
on content, such as application type, for maximum
flexibility in defining services.
WiMAX For FIXED Operators
Accounting and Billing
The WiChorus Intelligent ASN Gateway supports exten-
sive accounting and billing options for service providers,
enabling them to effectively capitalize on service differen-
tiation opportunities. The ability to capture statistics at a
very granular level coupled with the ability to dynamically
identify and trigger charging based on network content
enables unique solutions for monetizing the Internet.
WiChorus also supports standard techniques such as pre-
paid (online) and postpaid (offline), and volume and time-
based accounting for individual subscriber service flows.
Mobility
WiChorus is a pioneer in delivering advanced mobility
solutions for OFDMA-based WiMAX. The unique hardware
and software architecture of the SmartCore platform
supports bicasting/tricasting and make-before-break con-
nectivity to ensure seamless handovers for real-time IP
streams. The WiChorus Intelligent ASN Gateway supports
intra-ASN and inter-ASN mobility along with robust support
for Mobile IP ensuring subscriber stations can readily move
about the network for nomadic, portable or fully mobile
applications. The WiChorus solution also supports paging
and idle mode to help optimize power efficiency of sub-
scriber stations.
Network Optimization
With a global view of the network, the Wichorus ASN
Gateway offers service providers the ability to optimize
critical network resources and reduce overall operating
expenses. Backhaul capacity can be strained with the
migration to higher capacity WiMAX base stations. By
shaping and policing traffic destined for base stations,
the WiChorus ASN Gateway solution improves backhaul
efficiency. Header compression and suppression
techniques further optimize traffic in the access network.
Spectral assets are also a precious resource for service
providers deploying mobile WiMAX networks. The WiChorus
ASN Gateway ensures these resources are used with opti-
mal efficiency, maximizing subscriber density and revenue
opportunity. For example, dynamic load balancing across
base stations based on spectral capacity helps optimize
network utilization.
Carrier Class
As the ASN Gateway is a critical component of any WiMAX
network, high availability is paramount. WiChorus delivers
carrier grade solutions designed for maximum software and
hardware reliability. Features such as card level redundan-
cy, dedicated processing for control plane and data plane
traffic, hot swappable cards, redundant switch fabric and
in-service software upgrades ensure maximum uptime and
availability for service provider’s WiMAX networks.
Management
The WiChorus ASN Gateway solution supports Command
Line Interface (CLI), 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
the WiChorus network. This system provides FCAPS (Fault,
Configuration, Administration, Performance and Security)
management functionality. In addition to the WiChorus
elements of the network, the EMS provides a wealth of
information regarding wireless subscriber stations, includ-
ing addresses, accounting statistics, and QoS profiles;
offering service providers a consolidated
view of network users.

Open Standards
WiChorus has been driving the adoption of open standards
and interoperability within the WiMAX community, ensuring
service providers can choose best of breed products when WiMAX For MOBILE Operators
building their networks. The WiChorus ASN Gateway is
designed to interoperate with any WiMAX Forum NWG
compliant base station or Connectivity Services Network
(CSN) component, such as AAA server. Having already
completed multiple interoperability tests based on these
standards, WiChorus has demonstrated that service provid-
ers can leverage the full capabilities of their ASN Gateway
solution while independently selecting base
stations and other network components.
 WiChorus SmartCore Platforms

WiChorus SmartCore platforms are designed to accommodate a rich set of Leveraging hundreds of processing
elements and hardware engines in a
content handling and control-path functionality with maximum performance,
highly distributed design, the Smart-
minimum latency and massive scalability. To achieve this, WiChorus SmartCore Core platform’s unique architecture
platforms employ a combination of processing elements and hardware engines enables massive scalability.

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 system along with a highly distributed software
design enable the massive processing and learning capabilities of the
SmartCore platforms. SmartCore future proofs the mobile core for advances in
WiMAX and 4G technologies.

SC 1400 Platform SC 600 Platform SC 100 & SC 20 Appliances

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.
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
performance and subscriber density for
medium size networks.
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 plat-
forms are ideally suited for smaller networks
or geographically distributed designs, where a
fully redundant architecture is not required.
SmartCore Platforms Intelligent ASN Gateway

Features:

WiMAX Forum NWG compliant required features

• Profile A & C support for R6, R3 and R4 interfaces
• Fixed, Nomadic, Portable and Fully Mobile
• IP v4 Convergence Sublayer

Mobility
• Mobile IP Foreign Agent
• Inter and intra-ASN mobility support
• Seamless Mobility Handover support
• Idle Mode/Paging

QoS
• Classification, shaping and policing for NWG defined QoS
classes (UGS, RT-VR, ERT-VR, NRT-VR, BE)
• Per flow/per subscriber policing
• Differentiated Service Code Points (DSCP) support
About WiChorus
Content Management
• Service differentiation based on flexible and extensive policy WiChorus is an industry leader in Smart 4G Packet Core
• Identification and stateful management of popular infrastructure products. Its purpose-built SmartCore plat-
peer-to-peer applications
form’s unmatched performance with integrated content
• Traffic statistics and accounting based on content,
applications and vendor partnerships and network intelligence enables operators to deploy smart
Accounting HSPA, LTE and WiMAX Packet Core networks, that optimize
• Per subscriber/per flow accounting statistics
network resources, deliver new revenue generating services
• Time and volume based accounting
• Prepaid and postpaid and monetize the Internet.
• Enhanced charging

Routing and IP Protocols

With headquarter offices in San Jose, California, WiChorus is
• OSPF v2, RIP v2
• VRRP a private company with financial backing from Accel Partners,
IP Tunneling Mayfield Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Pinnacle Ventures.
• GRE Tunneling
• IP in IP
For more information, please visit www.wichorus.com.
Subscriber Station Authentication & Addressing
• AAA Authenticator (RADIUS)
• DHCP proxy/relay
• Proxy Mobile IP Client (PMIP v4)
• Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)

Backhaul and Spectral Optimization

• Load Balancing
• QoS enforcement on backhaul links
• ROHC header compression

Wholesale/MVNO features
• Support for multiple Home Agents
• Support for multiple AAA servers

Management & Administration

• CLI
• SNMP v2, v3
• EMS with full FCAPS support

Platform Support
• SC 1400 (14-slot modular carrier-grade platform) WiChorus Headquarters:
• SC 600 (6-slot modular carrier-grade platform) WiChorus Inc.
• SC 100 & SC 20: Appliance form factor 3590 N. 1st Street, Suite 300
San Jose, CA 95134
408.435.0777 TEL
408.955.9093 FAX

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