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ResIP White Paper The Mobile Packet Backbone Network A Compelling Multiservice IP Backbone Usecase PDF
ResIP White Paper The Mobile Packet Backbone Network A Compelling Multiservice IP Backbone Usecase PDF
Backbone Network
A compelling Multiservice
IP Backbone use case
White Paper
Executive summary
The mobile communications market is This white paper discusses ways in Juniper products and delivered by a
evolving at a furious pace. Growing which the CSP (communication service top IP solution integrator, Nokia Siemens
competition, eroding prices, and provider) can leverage an IP backbone Networks. Its architecture is mapped
emerging technologies are driving and multi-service capability to cost- for multiple use cases, the most
down mobile voice ARPU. To make efficiently accommodate and capitalize prominent of which is the Mobile Packet
up for shrinking margins, operators on this exponential growth in bandwidth. Backbone Network, or MPBN for short.
need to exploit new mobile technologies, It outlines a solution that can help This document explains the MPBN,
develop unprecedented data services, operators tackle the bandwidth and and makes a case for converting TDM
and transport exploding traffic more traffic challenge. Called Multiservice and packet backbones into a single
cost-effectively. IP Backbone, this solution is built on efficient IP backbone.
a platform of best-of-breed Cisco and
1. Introduction
Nokia Siemens Networks expects Further challenges await once an
some five billion people to be connected IP/MPLS backbone is in place to handle
by 2015, with about four billion (80%) all traffic: Multi-vendor, QoS, resilience
enjoying broadband access, and and interworking capabilities will become
wireless outnumbering wireline ever more important, especially as
broadband connections. backbone networks converge and
extend out further to the access and
Both today’s and tomorrow’s technology aggregation layer in LTE, branching
– HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) into other domains and encountering
and LTE (Long-Term Evolution), other vendors’ equipment.
respectively – are geared to drive traffic
growth and attract even more users, So Nokia Siemens Networks set out
for example, by cutting per-gigabyte to ensure QoS and resilience in multi-
costs and vastly improving the mobile vendor environments, helping CSPs
data user experience. make the transition to IP and handle
business-critical traffic such as voice
Efficient new radio technologies and or signaling via IP. To this end, the
more and more users add up to company integrated best-of-breed
exponential traffic growth. Projections products from Cisco and Juniper, the
call for as much as a 100-fold increase IP/MPLS market leaders with a huge
in the years ahead. CSPs’ transport embedded base, into its offering.
infrastructure will be hard-pressed to
keep pace. Scaling legacy TDM, ATM, Nokia Siemens Networks, acting as
and Frame Relay networks up to a solution integrator, leverages its
accommodate such massive growth considerable IP and mobile skills, as
presents a daunting engineering well as the assets of Cisco and Juniper
challenge, and even more so when to deliver a remarkably affordable
costs are factored into the equation. solution. Cost-effective and scalable,
One technology has what it takes to the MPBN is an IP/MPLS-based
create a common backbone – IP/MPLS. backbone that puts CSPs in the driver’s
seat for mobile broadband. It provides
the transport power and performance
capability CSPs need to satisfy
skyrocketing demand for data services,
grow as they go, and sustain their
business for the long haul.
BSC
IP/MPLS
Core
MGW MGCF
Nokia Siemens Networks developed The edge routers – Cisco 7609 and
and verified the MPBN solution to help ASR 9000 or Juniper M and MX models
CSPs tackle these challenges and – deliver MPLS layer-3 VPN services
grow their business. between mobile sites. The connection
between the site switch and site edge
Featuring the world-leading routers of router in the layered infrastructure is
Cisco and Juniper, as well as IP/MPLS engineered for fast failover times.
capability, it provides cost-effective, Various routing alternatives cater to
scalable transport between mobile individual operator’s preferences,
core domains and radio network sites whereby traffic separation is always
in both circuit-switched and packet- maintained to ensure service security
switched domains. and availability.
Nokia Siemens Networks has also The MPBN’s core has proven its merits
verified and proven that the IP/MPLS over many years in Nokia Siemens
network in the circuit-switched core Networks’ ResIP center. The IP/MPLS
can reliably carry Release 4 voice core network recovers as quickly as
traffic, as countless customers will legacy SDH networks. Availability
attest. Designed to meet future mobile, exceeds five nines, and a stringent
converged, and fixed networks’ QoS policy and smart traffic engineering
scalability requirements, world-class minimize latency, variance, and packet
Cisco and Juniper routers ensure loss for time-critical traffic. A properly
carrier-grade resilience and high configured MPBN will not drop a phone
availability. Providing the underpinning call even in the event of a failure, as
for a real multi-vendor multiservice rigorous tests of high-availability features
IP/MPLS network, the MPBN enables with Cisco and Juniper routers have
CSPs to deliver content and media in confirmed.
ways that satisfy both enterprise and
consumer demands.