Flash Networks Harmony and IBM BladeCenter

Delivering Advanced Mobile Services for Telecom Service Providers

"The Harmony platform together with IBM’s BladeCenter provides mobile operators increased operational efficiency and flexibility by enabling them to streamline their mobile Internet infrastructure on a single scalable, reliable and manageable blade platform."

— Amir Lapid, Director, Product Management, Flash Networks

To realize the commercial potential of advanced wireless broadband technologies, products and services, service providers face the challenge of improving the subscriber’s Quality of Experience (QoE) while maximizing the efficiency of their mobile Internet infrastructure. With the ever increasing variety of new and diverse services, the potential adverse impact to latency and reliability could compromise the user experience.

Flash Networks has developed Harmony, a platform of integrated, best-of-breed technologies which provides a comprehensive and complete set of services specifically designed to deliver an improved QoE. These intelligently combined technologies provide the best user experience while maximizing resource utilization. In order to provide content acceleration, web-to-mobile adaptation, video adaptation, content control, secure content, mobile advertising and user insight services during the same user sessions in an efficient manner, the required technologies must be harmonized to work in concert.

Flash Networks Harmony provides a comprehensive set of services specifically designed to deliver improved Quality of Experience.

Flash Networks Harmony increase ARPU through mobile data services while improving operational efficiency and accelerating time to market of new services.

Sample Configuration

Services
Control
Transport
Acess

Chassis	BladeCenter HT
Server	HS21 - Intel Xeon Dual Core
Memory	8GB
Other	Linux

Flash Networks and IBM: a powerful combination

The combination of Flash Networks and the IBM BladeCenter family delivers the performance, reliability and affordability demanded by mission critical telecommunications applications. The IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services providing a single platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.