Acme Packet gateway to defend small cells
Partners with femtocell specialist ip.access to provide security functionality
Published: 4 October, 2011
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As carriers look towards small cells, the whole network needs to adapt, from edge to backhaul to core. Acme Packet, leader in the session border controllers (SBCs) which defend IP networks at the edge, has been very active in the femtocell space, and its latest alliance is with small cell specialist ip.access.
The two companies have formed an alliance which will see the former's Net-Net Security Gateway securing connections for ip.access' nano3G family of femtocells and picocells, which link to the mobile core over the internet. The pre-integrated, turnkey solution has been tested and is already deployed in live customer networks, said the two firms.
The links will be protected according to the 3GPP's security gateway requirements, providing authentication and IPsec tunnel management between the miniature base stations and the access controller. Acme Packet's gateway supports up to 200,000 IPsec tunnels in a single rack unit system, plus integrated hardware and software protection from denial of service attacks.
"Service providers demand a comprehensive security solution in order to successfully deploy small cells," said Andy Tiller, SVP of product strategy and marketing at ip.access.
Acme Packet is also riding on the carriers' moves towards Voice over LTE, which is being driven particularly by the US CDMA operators. The company showed off its solution at this week's VoLTE Interoperability Event, run by the MultiService Forum. Its SBCs and policy exchange controllers provided SIP and Diameter signaling controls at the access and interconnect borders, as well as the core network. The multivendor IoT environment was designed by the MSF to test key service concepts in IMS and LTE systems.
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