SECURING THE MOBILE NETWORK

The impact of surging mobile data cannot be exaggerated, yet the new cost-constrained network must be continuously available despite all challenges. Securing so much data traffic is a daunting job, so Crossbeam recently measured stateful firewall performance of an X80-S in an emulated real-world mobile network. The results – validated by EANTC.

Crossbeam works with over 30 mobile operators globally to secure, optimize, and control mobile subscriber traffic – integrating a firewall on the Gi/SGi and Gp interfaces. Crossbeam’s high performance, scalable, and resilient platform ensures no compromise in throughput or number of connections, and enables the network to be adaptable for future expansion.

The Crossbeam architecture has been specifically designed to cope with the rigorous demands of the mobile network. With multiple sessions being initiated per smart phone or tablet device, the X-Series can accommodate 100 million concurrent sessions together with 320,000 new connections per second, today, and even higher capacities over time.

An incredible 50% of all mobile traffic is now video with a huge amount of HTTP traffic typically as small packets that can tax many security processor systems. Not Crossbeam. The X-Series platform powers the fastest firewall on the planet securing up to 22 million packets per second of real-world mobile traffic.

Crossbeam has a unique and proven approach to securing mobile operators around the globe. We work with best-in-class security vendors to provide maximum-security for mobile IP traffic traversing the public internet (Gi) or IP traffic from a roaming partner (Gp) or protecting the HLR. The combination of Check Point Security Gateway and Check Point Firewall-1 GX on Crossbeam are ready to secure your GPRS network.

As new IP services and new sources of revenue (domains) are deployed – such as IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) and Value Added Service Domains – interfaces to external networks expose the Evolved Packet Core to new vulnerabilities. To protect against these vulnerabilities a firewall is advised between the EPC and external networks.

With the adaptable and scalable architecture of Crossbeam, the X-Series platform is ready to provide security alongside the Serving Gateway (S-GW) and the Packet Data Network Gateway (PDN GW) for the Evolved Packet Core (EPC).