CenterStage with Session Border Controller for Next Generation Networks - OKI

Oki Electric Industry announced  the OKI's CenterStage NX3200,  a session border controller for next generation networks (NGN).

Kichiro Akino, Oki, said: Telecom carriers will start providing triple play service for voice, video and data to tens of millions of telephone subscribers over NGNs. In such an environment, carriers need to connect with other carriers to transfer services and provide a ubiquitous environment, enabling users to access services whenever and wherever they desire 

Session border controller
A controller to interconnect networks between IP multimedia subsystems (IMS). It can connect with different carriers' IMS networks and terminals by absorbing the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) differences and by conducting media conversion.

Kichiro Akino: CenterStage NX3200 enables carriers to interconnect their networks which hadn't been done in the past because it was difficult to process large capacity traffic in high speed with different IPs such as IPv4 to IPv6. In addition, the development of such system was delayed because there were no frameworks to flexibly interconnect higher-level services. Going forward, OKI will continue to release various products to expand functionality, thus effectively responding to the needs of telecom customers

CenterStage HAPF
A middleware platform to ensure high reliability for OKI's CenterStage NX Series. With a duplex server and a function to ensure reliability, the middleware achieves an operating rate of 99.9999%, a high level of availability equivalent to a central office.

OKI succeeded in overcoming the challenge of processing at high-speed while ensuring high expandability, using the "CenterStage HAPF(2)" as its middleware platform. In addition, OKI was able to flexibly interconnect higher-level services using AdvancedTCA(3) communications servers from Motorola and network processing technologies.

AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture)
This is an industry standard for NGN telecom equipment for telecom carriers, established by PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). AdvancedTCA includes technology advantages with high processing capacity and I/O expandability, while enabling reduction in development costs and flexibility with its open standards.

Stephen Dow, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola, Inc, said: This is further evidence of the increased acceptance of open, standards-based communications servers as a common platform for a wide range of applications. In our communications servers, Motorola verifies thermal, power and mechanical operation of the hardware and integrates a standard Carrier Grade Linux distribution, comprehensive centralized platform management and high-availability fabric management in an SA Forum compliant platform. We look forward to continuing our success with OKI's deployment of exciting new products based on Motorola's ATCA communications servers

Source: CenterStage for Next Generation Networks (NGN) - OKI