NSN Unveils Low Power Server

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) launched its new Flexi Network Server (NS), and it has the lowest power consumption on the market, at 59 watts per 100,000 subscribers, according to the company.

Power consumption requirements vary by country, but NSN figures that within three years, the energy saving alone justifies in vesting in its platform.

The company says that the new Flexi server also addresses the needs of operators that are serving more smart device users and handing an ever-growing signaling load. In its designs, NSN has basically made the network more intelligent. Rather than putting all traffic through the server, software can determine when data gets forwarded to the network gateway, making the process more efficient instead of sitting idly at the server.

of course, NSN offers a range of products, and it has brought all its core products under on unified architecture and integrated them into on rack, thereby reducing the footprint.

But next-generation standards were designed so that operators could choose from multiple vendors rather than having to get all the pieces from one. In general, operators are not relying on single vendors - "you have to convince them for every piece of it", he says.

NSN already has customers that plan to deploy the new server based on trials, but as of the fourth quarter, it will be offered for general availability

The Flexi NS will work both as a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) for 3G/3G/HSPA networks and as a Mobility Management Entity (MME) for LTE. It's based on the industry standard ATCA based platform

参考　wireless magazine

Smith Micro Launches vidio

4G technologies may be especially geared for video, but Smith Micro Software wants to make sure that video is the best quality possible.

After all, as networks improve, consumers' demand for high-quality experiences increases, says Brain, head of the video product line at Smith Micro.

Toward that end, Smith Micro is launching Vidio, a carrier-grade software platform for delivering high-quality video content efficiently and reliably to consumers, regardless of their mobile device.

Vidio's features include "follow me" TV capabilities across mobile, Web and IPTV; real-time ad insertion; on-demand and live content delivery; and load balancing. There is also an on-demand Capacity Overflow streaming solution managed and hosted at Smith Micro's data centers