Wireless Carrier

The New Mobile Network

The rise of the wireless smartphone is having a dramatic impact on mobile operator networks and business models. It is causing a major increase in data traffic, putting an enormous strain on mobile networks operators as they are asked to carry far more data traffic than ever before. That is accelerating the move toward all-IP end-to-end mobile network frameworks, and impacting mobile operator business models because the revenue generated from data services is rapidly being decoupled from the traffic volume that users generate.

While the rise of the wireless smartphone clearly represents a number of major challenges for mobile carrier network operators, it also represents all sorts of new opportunities. Profits from IP applications can be enormous as users come to depend on their wireless smartphones for everything from email, to mobile banking, web surfing, corporate directories, weather reports, and a thousand other things. However, not all IP networks are created equal and the traditional networks and business models are inadequate for the wireless smartphone era.

Juniper is focusing its efforts on helping mobile carrier network operators to profit from the wireless smartphone revolution. Our mobility framework solutions include security applications for wireless smartphones, RAN backhaul, Wi-Fi offload, mobile packet core, IP edge and backbone, all the way to the data center.

IP is rapidly becoming a cornerstone technology in the mobile industry, on a par with RF, and Juniper networks has the best-in-class IP technology and expertise to help mobile carrier network operators navigate this transformation.

MobileNext Open Mobile Core

MobileNext is Juniper's mobility framework solution for 2G/3G and LTE mobile packet cores, it is a suite of packet core software for the mobile Internet and includes the MobileNext Broadband Gateway, the MobileNext Control Gateway, and the MobileNext Policy Manager. The MobileNext Broadband Gateway provides the S/P Gateway + GGSN + IP Services function; the MobileNext Control Gateway provides the MME + SGSN function; and the MobileNext Policy Manager provides the Policy and Charging Rules Function.

A key part of Juniper's focus with MobileNext is to architect a mobile packet core specifically for the wireless smartphone revolution that is open, secure, and scalable.

• MobileNext is open because it uses the Junos SDK to accelerate service creation and service velocity in the mobile core.
• MobileNext is scalable because it addresses the need to dramatically scale both the user planes and the control planes for the rapidly growing smartphone traffic.
• MobileNext is secure because most wireless smartphone traffic is headed for the Internet, making securing the mobile framework a priority.

MobileNext from Juniper will enable mobile carrier network operators to not just meet the needs of the wireless smartphone revolution, but find new ways to accelerate the revenue potential for IP services.

Figure 1: MobileNext from Juniper Networks

MobileNext Secure Business Services

The MobileNext Open Mobile Core works in concert with Junos Pulse and Juniper SRX Series Services Gateways to enable mobile carrier network operators to deliver a converged, managed remote access VPN service. MobileNext delivers a very strong set of business centric services such as APN scalability, APN management, and a strong MPLS VPN implementation to support APN to MPLS mapping. Junos Pulse SSL VPNs can be managed via SA Series SSL VPN Virtual Appliance in the mobile operator's data center. This converged approach will allow the operator to offer secure remote access for any mobile device (APN-based or SSL-based) and any mobile application.

Service Delivery Gateway

The rapid acceleration in data services is also putting a strain on the mobile framework that connects the mobile packet core to the end network (Internet, Service Complex, or Corporate Intranet). A wide variety of services are provided in these Gi networks including carrier grade NAT, Firewall, MPLS VPN, IPsec VPN, border gateway routing, server load balancing, video optimization, etc. The traditional approach to building these networks has been to use a long chain of point products. The Service Delivery Gateway from Juniper Networks consolidates most of these functions onto a single MX-3D Universal Edge Router. The result is a highly flexible, scalable, resilient, and cost effective solution to the challenges in Gi networking. Savings from Gi network consolidation can easily exceed 30%.

Mobile Backhaul

With the growth in high-bandwidth data services requiring upgrades to mobile backhaul networks, operators today are increasingly challenged with legacy backhaul architectures that are expensive, inflexible, inefficient and limited in scale. Unlike piecemeal approaches that mix and match components, Juniper’s solution is a fully integrated, high-performance architecture that addresses the needs of the cell site, metro backhaul,and aggregation network, with a unified network management solution. Juniper’s solution supports a full range of transport types, enabling a cost-effective and adaptive services architecture for multi-generation networks.

Welcome to the New Mobile Network and welcome to Juniper Networks.