Reducing time to deployment by 18 months

Application:
4G wireless broadband controller

Challenge:
The customer’s challenge was to build an AdvancedTCA system that would host a wireless broadband access controller application that could support one million subscribers, provide carrier-grade (99.999%) service availability, and all with a very aggressive time-to-market goal. The customer wanted to transition from its proprietary middleware solution (which was non-differentiating) and leverage a standards-based solution with newer SA Forum features.

Solution:
Emerson Network Power provided a turnkey, pre-integrated and pre-validated platform to the customer that included AdvancedTCA hardware, an operating system, and a software suite that implements the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) and Application Interface Specification (AIS) services for high availability, system and platform management.

Results:
The customer gained immediate near-term benefits. The customer was able to able to go to deployment with its solution in less than 18 months. This same deployment would have taken 36 months if the customer had tried to implement its own SA Forum software stack. The solution has now been deployed in the field for many years.

Additionally, encouraged by the success of the pilot program using an SA Forum standards-based platform, the customer has now moved other projects onto the SA Forum-based platform which had been adopted for the initial project. The customer is constantly evolving towards standardizing this platform as the common platform for all of its future high availability application needs.

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As you can see, innovators adopting SA Forum specifications are gaining a competitive edge. We invite you to learn more about the Service Availability Solution and successful, standards-based implementations available in the marketplace.

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