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COMBINED PGW AND UPF FOR DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES

Advanced PGW & UPF

Unique, integrated solution offering ultra-low latency processing, high throughput and carrier-grade resilience for outstanding performance.

HOW CAN YOU BENEFIT FROM WTL'S ADVANCED PGW & UPF?

Application-aware control – without additional cost or complexity

Optimise business outcomes and build differentiated and personalised offers – WTL delivers your competitive edge.

Differentiate today – and prepare for 5G

With WTL’s innovative solution you can launch and monetise differentiated 4G services today – and protect your investment when launching 5G. 

Measurable performance enhancements 

By integrating DPI natively into the combined solution, latency and operational complexity are reduced, delivering performance and cost advantages across all dimensions. Performance scales linearly enabling smooth growth.

Intelligence to drive optimisation

Precisely understand real-time application performance, with trend analysis, detailed service and subscriber profiling and more. Use insights to optimise and capture revenue opportunities and evolve your service portfolio. Export operational data and integrate with your BI solutions to enrich your analytics and deliver enhanced service assurance.

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Wire-speed performance for accelerated traffic processing

Our two-phase flow-based processing model enables full-DPI classification backed by fast-path forwarding – maintaining latency for established flows.

Identify applications and encryption

WTL’s solution identifies more than 450 application protocols – achieved, on average, in 10ms. This means you can apply policies almost instantly and detect encrypted traffic via behavioural flow analysis – giving you full control. 

Create and enforce policies

By tracking individual sessions and applications consumed, you can build tailored policies to match traffic demands, backed by differential charging and plans – so you can precisely tune your network and control performance. Easily define categories so you can group applications and enforce policies that align with the needs of your business and customers.

Flow Based DPI

3GPP dynamic policy control

Assign and manage rating groups and time/volume-based quotas to enable dynamic charging and policy control, in real-time and to ensure compliance.

Create and manage offers

You can easily build new packages and offers for the duration you need. This allows you to target individual users, events or even locations with packages that deliver specific capabilities matched to service demand and user context. 

Track consumption and demand

With WTL’s solution, you can easily track consumption so you can determine the success of your offers and retune to match real-world demand and experience. Move users from one tier to another, target high consumers and tailor your promotions to drive adoption – and use insights to ensure effective capacity management and planning.

Rating Group

Carrier Grade Network Address Translation

Protect your IPv4 assets with a single public IP address for your connected mobile devices with dynamic configuration and session management. 

Scale cost-effectively 

Easily add new user and IoT devices, routers and more to your network without deploying or purchasing unique IPv4 addresses. WTL’s integrated CGNAT solution provides effortless scale as you grow your connected device ecosystem.

Protect users and ensure regulatory compliance

End-device IP addresses are effectively concealed, ensuring that your network meets mobile security best-practice requirements. The logs and records captured mean you can comply with regulatory requests and investigative procedures to track illicit or suspicious activities. WTL’s integrated solution consolidates key functions for ease of management.

CGNAT

Converged charging and management

WTL’s solution combines online, offline and hybrid charging capabilities, giving you maximum flexibility from a single platform.

Implement any pricing plan

Build custom charging packages with real-time credit and billing control, seamlessly integrated with your charging systems. The integrated solution simplifies management of new packages, accelerating time to market and helping you target emerging opportunities.

Control user and session access

With WTL, you can instantly restrict access or initiate balance updates, providing full control for classic and new services. Zero rate or limit services, introduce new QoS-based packages and much more – complete control over your service portfolio and monetisation policies, protecting revenue and capturing new income streams for all users and partners.

Dynamic Charging

Understand service performance

Building and evolving a winning proposition depends on insights. WTL’s integrated solution gives you granular data to drive optimisation.

Comprehensive assurance

Track all services and how they are consumed to evaluate success and enhance KPIs – for all service categories and for different user groups, such as VIPs and slice-based offers. Combine insights across platform and integrate with your assurance tools to enable dynamic control.

Drive better investments

Insights help you focus on winning services and identify candidates for promotion or even retirement. By understanding user consumption and tracking access, you can ensure QoS is delivered effectively and make the right investment choices for network upgrades and capacity management, in the right locations. WTL gives you the insights you need.

Advanced Monitoring

DELIVER LOW LATENCY APPLICATIONS WITH INTEGRATED DPI

Modernise your 4G network – and prepare for 5G

WTL’s Advanced PGW and UPF combines Rating Groups, Deep Packet Inspection, Carrier-grade NAT and User Plane processing - delivering unparalleled, reliable performance.

Seamless evolution to 5G

With integrated support for key 5G interfaces alongside 4G and legacy connectivity, the Advanced PGW & UPF provides a smooth migration path.

Cost-efficient, unified architecture

By combining PGW, UPF, DPI and NAT functions, you benefit from reduced hardware costs, enhanced performance and simplified operations.

Ultra-low latency and high throughput

WTL’s solution delivers nanosecond latency and performance with single-pass processing and flow-based classification – and per-session QoS control.

Real-time traffic visibility and dynamic charging

Integrated DPI enables precision policy enforcement and the application of flexible charging models – enhancing your revenue opportunities.

Global operators depend on WTL

Next generation core network and access solutions – cloud-native, containerised and carrier-grade.

70+ countries

Truly global solution delivery

100+ networks

Solving connectivity challenges

30 years

Partnering mobile innovator

1600+ interconnects

Solving interop challenges, daily

Frequently Asked Questions: Advanced PGW & UPF

FAQs

Does the Advanced PGW and UPF give me complete application visibility?

Yes, our innovative approach provides visibility of more than 450 protocols, allowing you to group and categorise applications. Armed with this knowledge, you can implement the service access, performance and charging rules you need.

What advantage does combining these functions in a single platform give us?

Separating these functions introduces latency and reduces application processing performance. With advanced services, even the slightest reduction in speed can have a significant impact on your SLAs. So, we combine these functions to accelerate processing – and reduce your management overheads, as you don’t need to integrate or manage separate silos and platforms.

Can I start today with 4G and add 5G capabilities to the same solution?

Absolutely. Our solution spans all generations, so you can leverage the enhanced performance and cloud-native architecture today – and simply add 5G when you are ready, because it’s already equipped with the 3GPP compliant interfaces and capabilities you’ll need.

Does a single platform reduce resilience?

No. Our solution is engineered for reliability and offers full load balancing – and no single point of failure, at every layer. Redundant paths are provided for all critical traffic flows.

How can I track new applications and protocols?

We continuously provide updates to track new releases to ensure you stay ahead of evolving applications and across different categories.

How does the Advanced PGW and UPF solution scale?

The platform offers linear scalability with deployment options to match your subscriber base and needs. We review your network and traffic profiles before recommending the initial configuration and hardware requirements – and then track capacity so you can plan for growth as you need it.

What use cases can the solution support?

Anything from slice-based service delivery and management to revenue analytics, video traffic throttling, application-specific and zero-rated bundles. The solution gives you the flexibility to choose, execute and manage any policies you like that support your business needs and offers.

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