Cricket Communications, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc., has selected Starent’s ST16 multimedia core platform solution to provide multimedia services to subscribers.
Cricket is a wireless cell phone service provider, offering customers and local businesses flat-rate, unlimited service over an all-digital wireless network. Starent Network’s multimedia core platform will enable Cricket to enhance its current offering of mobile applications such as text messaging, picture messaging and games, and to prepare for the next-generation of multimedia applications.
Starnet solutions deliver the high capacity, high availability and high performance required by today’s multimedia broadband 3G networks and are readily upgradeable to respond to evolving 4G radio networks.
Starent Networks’ Multimedia Solutions Selected by Cricket to Provide Next-Generation, Feature-Rich Applications
“The vast majority of Cricket customers use their mobile phones as their primary or only phone. Our customers are dependent on their phones, and they look to us to provide always-on service with a variety of the latest features and applications,” said Chris Demange, director, network engineering and development for Cricket. “By deploying Starent Network’s solutions, we are better preparing ourselves to handle the increasing demand for high bandwidth services. Starent Network’s solutions offer our network a high degree of intelligence that helps bolster the quality of our service offerings at a time when quality of service is at issue with so many mobile users.”
“Cricket’s subscribers have high expectations of the network, in both quality and the level of multimedia services it can provide,” said Ashraf Dahod, CEO of Starent Networks. “We are pleased to have been chosen by such an innovative operator to help deliver a quality experience with a range of multimedia services that may impact their profitability.”
Starent Network’s multimedia core platform solutions offer subscriber and network intelligence combined with powerful performance to address the needs of large, high-demand, multimedia deployments. The solutions deliver the high capacity, high availability and high performance required by today’s multimedia broadband 3G networks and are readily upgradeable to respond to evolving 4G radio networks. The platforms’ system intelligence can perform a detailed inspection of each subscriber session, shaping and managing the session based on subscriber, application or business policies. The platforms utilize deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, service steering and intelligent traffic control to deliver this intelligence on a per-subscriber basis.
About Cricket
Cricket is a simple, affordable wireless service offering consumers and local businesses a flat-rate unlimited service over the latest technology, high-quality, all-digital CDMA2000 1X and 1xEV-DO wireless network. Designed for customers whose basic and advanced wireless needs have not been met by traditional communications companies, Cricket is the pioneer of unlimited services with no long-term commitments or credit checks required. Cricket offers customers access to a variety of the latest devices and feature-rich mobile applications such as unlimited text, instant and picture messaging, Mobile Web, popular games, ringtones and wallpapers. For more information on Cricket, visit www.mycricket.com. Cricket services are offered by Leap Wireless International, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information on Leap, visit www.leapwireless.com.
About Starent Networks
Starent Networks, Corp. is a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services to their subscribers. Starent Networks has created solutions that provide network functions and services, including access from a wide range of radio networks to the operator’s packet core network. Starent Networks’ solutions also provide management of subscriber sessions moving between networks and application of billing and other session policies. Starent Networks’ products and services provide high performance and system intelligence by combining significant computing power, memory and traffic handling capabilities with a flexible, high availability operating system and other proprietary software. The company’s products integrate multiple network functions and services needed for the delivery of advanced multimedia services, such as video, Internet access, voice-over-IP, e-mail, mobile TV, photo sharing and gaming. Starent Networks’ products have been deployed by over 60 mobile operators in 25 countries.