LTE

LTE has finally arrived and promises to be a major area of capital expenditure for service providers over the next decade. It has become imperative for Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) to be ready with innovative, differentiated, and cost-competitive products to succeed in the wireless ecosystem of the future.

We provide TEMs a comprehensive set of product lifecycle services - from product strategy, design, development, testing, integration, to platform/ technology migration. Our services help TEMs disrupt, design, and engineer differentiated solutions across the entire LTE ecosystem. These services are based on a strong foundation of domain expertise across access and core networks, and are complemented by feature-rich software frameworks and protocol stacks for eNodeB (and Home eNodeB) and EPC, as well as for IP Backhaul.

Aricent and Freescale partnered to launch Aricent's LTE eNodeB reference framework, optimized for Freescale's high-performance QorIQ processors. The reference framework supports both the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes of operation on LTE. Download Solution Brief

Capabilities

Our wireless services practice boasts more than 5,000 engineers with proven expertise in wireless networks, including over 400 engineers with 4G expertise across LTE and WiMAX technologies. We have more than 150 clients in the wireless domain, with more than 20 clients for our LTE services.

Aricent has secured more than 20 design wins from leading Telecom Equipment Manufacturers for its LTE Professional Services and Software frameworks

eNodeB

Our technology prowess in this domain spans across areas such as eNodeB platforms and components, Radio Resource Management algorithms (power control, admission control, handover, etc.), Self Optimizing Networks, custom scheduler design, embedded Operations and Management (OAM) frameworks, etc., for eNodeB’s of multiple form factors viz., macro, pico, and femto. Learn more

Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

In the EPC domain, our skills include design, development, and integration of signaling, data, as well as management planes for core network nodes such as the Mobility Management Entity (MME), Signaling Gateway (SGW) and Packet Data Network Gateway (PGW), Home Subscriber Server (HSS), etc. Learn more

IP Backhaul

We have experience building IP Backhaul aggregation devices based on both IP/ Ethernet-MPLS and on a hybrid of Ethernet and other Layer 2 technologies such as ATM/ T1-E1/ Frame Relay, microwave, etc. We have also helped multiple TEMs deliver different flavors of data offload gateway solutions.

Operations Administration and Maintenance (OAM)

We have developed Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) systems for all types of telecommunications equipment. Our engineers are well versed with network management protocols such as SNMP, CORBA, and TL1, as well as with the development of OAM systems using frameworks such as AdventNet and HP OpenView.

Software Frameworks and Protocol Stacks

We provide feature-rich and widely deployed protocol stacks and software frameworks for LTE eNodeB’s, IP Backhaul, and the Evolved Packet Core.

Services

Product Strategy

We help TEMs identify critical market requirements for their LTE products, translate them into specific product and platform requirements, as well as identify the ideal product phasing for different product features.

Product Development

We have designed and developed both individual product features and complete systems for many products from leading TEMs across multiple technologies. Our strategic partnerships with major players in the LTE ecosystem have helped us effectively build and integrate software subsystems on multiple hardware platforms.

Testing and Integration

Our testing services for the LTE domain include functional testing, system testing, regression testing, release testing, and integration testing. We offer services for integration testing with external Network Management Systems (NMS) as well as for end-to-end integration testing using real network equipment in state-of-the-art lab facilities.

Technology and Platform Migration

We offer an unmatched capability to help TEMs migrate their products between technologies, e.g. from WiMAX to LTE or from FD-LTE to TD-LTE. TEMs can also leverage Aricent’s platform expertise to move their products to newer platforms to meet growing capacity requirements.