Netrake Secures Mobile Networks with 3GX

Netrake has unveiled its next-generation platform - the 3GX - the first complete solution addressing dynamic security of voice, video, data, and mobile applications to secure multimedia distribution across a range of access networks for users at work, at home, or on the road. The 3GX supports next-generation, converged fixed-mobile architectures being defined by 3GPP IMS, 3GPP2, ETSI TISPAN, PacketCable and UMA.

The 3GX builds on the proven nCite Session Border Controller (SBC) and nCite Security Gateway (SG) platforms and integrates them while adding new functionality and interfaces required to operate in both Fixed and Mobile networks. Netrake has developed unique networking hardware and software technology that solves the security and service problems with voice, video and data distribution over FMC networks.

The use of dual-mode phones using IPSec encryption in both Fixed and Mobile networks will require a single access point to aggregate the large volumes of secure tunnels into the service provider's network. Security devices at the network edge must handle IPSec encryption of both the signaling and the media traffic as well as perform Dynamic Session Security and other security countermeasures for roaming users and applications.

The 3GX addresses security issues with a carrier-grade, services edge solution, available in a range of configurations, including a next generation ATCA platform that meets the diverse evolution paths of service providers today. The 3GX resides at the edge of the providers' IP network, bridging the divide between network convergence and service convergence providing a huge step forward in security and real-time management of users. The 3GX allows service providers to manage a single secure connection to the subscriber that is capable of concurrently supporting all IP services such as VoIP, IPTV, and data services. Netrake's 3GX supports multiple packaging options that will allow service providers to scale existing deployments with a graceful evolution to the IMS architecture.

"Service providers are beginning to upgrade their core network security posture in advance of the industry shift to Dual-Mode 3G/UMA networks, and eventually to full convergence based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture," said Mark Neider, vice president marketing for Netrake. "Adding unlicensed wireless network access exposes the network to threats such as Denial of Service, fraud, and spoofing, and 3GX is designed to eliminate those risks.

The 3GX, currently in customer trials, will enable seamless security and scale of real-time services across cellular, Wi-Fi, and SIP-based networks. The 3GX solution has a defined future-proof evolutionary path to enable service providers to deliver profitable SIP-based convergence services while carefully staging investments in next generation networks.