Ericsson’s SmartEdge Multi-service Edge Routers (MSERs) products offer highly efficient solutions to enable new revenue generating services such as IPTV, Video-on-Demand and interactive online gaming. SmartEdge MSERs offer multiple functionalities at the edge of IP networks that are necessary to offer these services.

Our SM 480 Metro Ethernet Service Transport platform is helping accelerate the convergence of fixed and mobile networks. Working in concert with SmartEdge and SM 480 products, service provisioning and billing are simplified by the NetOp Policy Suite.

Cut costs

As a single integrated unit, the SmartEdge MSER platform offer a number of functions that would normally require multiple devices; it integrates the Ethernet aggregation, IP routing and subscriber management functions that would typically be found in three separate network devices. It also provides support for Mobile IP, P2P traffic analysis and management, and Session Border Gateway functionalities. As such, it reduces operational effort, and the associated costs, and simplifies the deployment of new services in a controllable and reliable way.

The SM 480 Metro Ethernet Service Transport platform is designed to simplify network architectures, lower network costs, unify and accelerate fixed and mobile convergence.

The NetOp Policy Suite is integrated with the SmartEdge product families and simplifies deployment of revenue generating multi-play services such as IPTV, video on demand, VoIP, and high speed Internet services. NetOp Element Management System helps reduce operations costs through automated configuration, provisioning, alarm and fault management and supports multiple management methods and protocols.

Grow revenue with attractive services

Service providers understand that maximizing revenue and income from their subscribers goes hand in hand with offering new services. The key opportunity lies in capitalizing on the personalized and interactive nature of broadband and IP.

IPTV and video services are at the forefront of many service providers’ plans for new service offerings, and are the key drivers in the current wave of infrastructure upgrades. SmartEdge MSER operates at the edge of the IP backbone delivering the traffic-intensive applications that enable service providers to offer lucrative applications in Full Service Broadband.

Drive efficiency and manage risks

Ericsson's offerings take into consideration an operator's chosen networking technologies, migration path and traffic requirements now and in the future. Designed with efficiency in mind, our IP Network solutions are pre-tested and validated, enabling reduced time-to-market and cost savings while supporting a full network migration.

Carrier-Class Operating System

SEOS is a carrier-class, modular Operating System that runs on SmartEdge and SM platforms. It represents the natural evolution of operating systems used in the carrier-class networking equipment. It is a distributed operating system that supports multiple powerful processors, and has been designed with a common infrastructure. SEOS has been designed to be highly resilient and ensure 99.999% (or better) system availability, for a virtually non-stop network operation. SEOS ensures survival of the system in the presence of single points of failures, and rapid restart after the problem has been resolved. SEOS supports the necessary features that enable continuous operation in the forwarding (user) plane, even in the presence of a fault in the control plane.

The SmartEdge portfolio offers intelligent networking devices designed to simplify and to speed the deployment of broadband services, to provide a scalable operational model for managing subscribers, and to enable the creation of new value-added services. The SmartEdge portfolio consists of a range of hardware and software products to support functions, such as:

    * Ethernet Aggregation
    * IP Edge Routing
    * Subscriber Management

With a focus on resiliency, performance and flexibility, the SmartEdge product portfolio enables service providers of any size to deliver next generation IP services.

Operators realize that IP allows them to reduce their operational expenses drastically by consolidating multiple service networks into a single broadband network. Ericsson IP Networking products also enable new capabilities and services that ultimately streamline operations including:
    * Single service control point for all services reduces operational effort and simplifies integration into existing operations model and OSS environment
    * High availability architecture certifies mission critical applications such as voice and television
    * Modular operating systems ensures a rapid time-to-market for new features and functions
    * Fully programmable Broadband IP Engine enables new hardware functions and expanded capacity without the need to purchase and install new hardware systems
    * Scalability along three axis subscribers, services and bandwidth without trade-off
    * Low cost of operations with the ability to manage subscribers, accounts, bandwidth, and services dynamically (dynamic service selection)
    * Efficient, secure, and cost-effective support of the wholesale transport model
    * High return on investment through innovative service creation capabilities
    * Multi-vendor and multi-technology (DSL, cable, wireless, FTTx, ATM, frame relay) interoperability

Rather than simply focusing on short-term infrastructure requirements of a single new service, operators have recognized the importance of selecting a flexible architecture like the SmartEdge MSER platform for overall service delivery in order to adapt to an entire range of emerging new applications.