The need for increased bandwidth, better policy management, and the creation of services that generate profits are leading telecom carriers and network operators to invest heavily in infrastructure. Providers are looking for opportunities in every area to increase revenue per subscriber and reduce cost per bit, which is creating strong momentum and opportunities for high-density, carrier-grade products like. Factors that are currently influencing the trend include increased demand for 4G capabilities and IP-multimedia services, among others.
Almost all core network infrastructure solutions and applications can benefit from ATCA, and trends are moving the industry in that direction. In particular, the need to manage the increasing traffic and demand for online and data services through dynamic policy management requires a high-density solution. This solution affords carriers the opportunity to track subscribers as they move between cells, analyze applications and usage models with deep packet inspection and analytics on the front end, and provide policy enforcement resource functions deployed in high density ATCA.
On the services side of the industry, tremendous investments are being made in IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) to blend cellular services with IP services. With IMS, carriers are looking to provide new services for subscribers, as well as reproduce the functionality available on the internet to create a seamless experience for customers. Such functionality requires the use of ATCA to handle the high volumes of data transmitted.
Service Providers looking to add value-added applications for their customer need to trial new service offerings quickly to see if they are attractive to the market. ATCA makes this possible by providing flexibility in the infrastructure to support this try and repeat methodology.
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