Ericsson Updates: SSR (w/DPI) Scheduled for Q4; 85 PCRF Customers

    

The slides below are taken from the presentations made by Håkan Eriksson, Group CTO and President of Ericsson Silicon Valley and Jan Häglund (pictured) VP and Head of Broadband and Internet, Ericsson Networks during Ericsson's North American Analyst Forum held on August 30 in San Jose, CA.

The slides relate to the recently announced Smart Services Router (see "Ericsson Smart Services Router to Include DPI and Video Caching" - here), a major building block in Ericsson's "Service Aware Network", described by Mr. Eriksson.

Ericsson's policy management (now enhanced with Telcordia portfolio) has 85 contracts. 
   

Ken Rehbehn, Yankee Group Mobile Wireless Industry Analyst provided live blogging during the event - and tweeted some of Mr. Häglund statements:

• Policy control activity largely in SE Asia (helping operators w/ innovative charging approaches) 
• 1st Smart Services Router coming 4q11 as planned - 16Tbps
• Smaller versions (10slot/6slot) of Smart Services Router coming in 2012