Benu Unveils New Architecture for 4G Mobile Networks

Mobile technology company Benu unveiled its disruptive architecture and purpose-built platform aimed at dramatically reducing costs and improving subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE) for 4G mobile networks.

Dave Callan, founder and chief executive officer of Benu said in a press release, “As mobile devices become more capable, driving busy hour data rates higher, operators must rethink centralized architectures and embrace more intelligent, distributed architectures. Benu’s innovative architecture and advanced technology distributes intelligence without distributing the complexity.”

As indicated, Benu’s solution distributes intelligence and optimization to the edge of the 4G Evolved Packet Core (EPC) without the cost and the complexity of legacy vendor solutions.

Benu is of the opinion that for the transition to a flat, all-IP network for next generation 4G networks, key requirement is the need for distribution of network intelligence. Benu’s release also clarified the same in terms of the usage of data.

It said, as 4G mobile data usage exceeds multiple Gigabytes per month per subscriber, the centralized architecture being prescribed by traditional PDN gateway (PGW) vendors becomes cost prohibitive: increasing capital expenditure, adding significant operational complexity, and multiplying backhaul and transport costs.

Benu’s architecture, the Mobile Edge Gateway (MEG) is noted to be a carrier-grade, purpose-built hardware and software platform that dynamically instantiates standard EPC network functions. Benu’s MEG platform leverages hardware acceleration to provide sophisticated intelligence, optimization, routing, and security with no performance degradation.

Additionally, Benu’s architecture is said to use a unique Secure Distributed Fabric that utilizes IP to create communication links between multiple MEGs and allows a single MEG to consolidate and align subscriber management traffic to the Control Plane, thus minimizing the number of northbound interfaces and elements.

The MEG platform is capable of providing high level security that supports macro and small cell aggregation and Internet backhaul. Further, Benu’s solution also contributes to the reduction of complexity thereby lowering CAPEX and OPEX, emphasized the company statement.