Solutions: Edge Service Exchange
Stoke is pleased to spotlight here the Edge Service Exchange, an ecosystem of network service applications deployed at the edge of the RAN. The unprecedented and unpredictable growth in mobile data traffic has exposed the bottlenecks of current 3G data network architectures. Incumbent suppliers are offering few real options other than adding capacity through additional network nodes. Stoke's Business-Crossovertm approach to problem solving resulted in the creation of Mobile Data Offload (MDO), a unique relief valve for the mobile data core that routes Internet bound traffic to the nearest Internet access point, bypassing core nodes altogether. MDO was launched on the market in January, 2010.
MDO has been upgraded since then as a result of engagements and testing with operators throughout the year. The new enhancements are now enabling a growing set of largely core-bound applications to be deployed with greater effectiveness at the edge of the Radio Access Network (RAN). This new edge deployment location, together with control plane information not available in the network core, is affording application providers new opportunities for innovation and is already leading to service delivery improvements. For example, laboratory trials combining MDO with a collocated Content Distribution Network (CDN) edge server saw mobile user website load time latencies reduced by 60%.
Edge Service Exchange Ecosystem
The Edge Service Exchange empowers mobile operators to innovate and discover new efficiencies beyond the boundaries and inertia
created by incumbent suppliers. In tests with participating companies, and validated in operator trials, Stoke has proven that
additional network service capabilities are available at the edge. Enabled by Stoke's selective traffic breakout solution,
application providers are able to improve performance and QoS by locating critical traffic control, optimization, and content
acceleration functions closer to subscribers.
As a result, Stoke is enabling a new Edge Service Exchange ecosystem that makes possible network modernization and service enhancements, even in today's overstretched mobile infrastructures. Stoke has begun extensive testing with a number of globally recognized application providers, including Volubill, the leading provider of real-time policy management and charging solutions, and major players in mobile traffic optimization, cloud-based web application and content acceleration, and video CDN technologies.
Stoke solutions address the most pressing problems in delivering mobile broadband services whether for 3G technologies or LTE. Stoke Mobile Data Offload for 3G networks offer MNOs a way out of the sprialing data service delivery costs associated with rising traffic volumes. Stoke Security Gateway soltuion for LTE ensures secure user communications and improve the scalability of the Evolved Packet Core.
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