Market Drivers:

Large scale adoption of mobile broadband is fueling growth in the mobile communications market as well as flooding networks,  creating a constant need for adding capacity. In turn operators are facing a challenge on how best to monetize the data demands of consumers so they continue to focus on reducing the cost-per-bit to deliver services.

To help operators meet the challenge telecom equipment manufacturers are building infrastructure that:

• Provides the ability to scale along with demand. The use of bladed systems delivers the ability to start small and add capacity by adding blades.
• Consolidates multiple distinct functions into a single platform. The move to an all IP core network enables the integration of multiple previously disparate functions into a single platform saving CAPEX and OPEX for the operator.
• Enables network function virtualization. By exploiting data center derived virtualization technology and customizing to meet telecom specific requirements next generation mobile infrastructure will provide optimized utilization of processing capacity.
• Telecom specific load balancing is required to deliver these capabilities. Without effective and dynamic balancing of load across processors combined with the ability to intelligently distribute traffic to the right functions in the system this approach cannot work. Either you end up with inefficient utilization of processing capacity or a lack of ability to truly consolidate enough functionality in the system – leading to lackluster performance and minimized cost benefits.

Radisys Telecom Load Balancing Solution:

Our approach to deliver load balancing solutions includes:

• Start with valuable existing intellectual property
• Turnkey off-the-shelf 3G  & LTE GTP Load Balancer
• Stateful and stateless load balancer frameworks
• Trillium protocol suite enabling protocol specific LBs
• Carrier-grade platform as the engine
• Gather specific customer requirements
• Not all load balancers are the same, but most standalone load balancers are take a “one size fits all”
• Implemented as blade(s) in an existing system or an external dedicated black box
• Load balancing in virtualized environment is underserved by existing solutions
• Provide proposal for custom crafted solution

This approach delivers to the exact requirements of our customers, while still enabling fast time-to-market. This is achieved by leveraging significant existing intellectual property and products and working with our full life-cycle services team. Only Radisys brings together these capabilities to deliver telecom load balancing solutions to our customers.