Dallas-based Mavenir Systems sees its future in LTE and is poised to make a product offering that it says is unique to its competitors in Voice over LTE (VoLTE) by partnering with top companies. “We build our solutions by packaging our software on industry-standard hardware from Radisys, NEI and third-party components from others such as Acme Packet and Genband,” said Shubh Agarwal, VP of marketing at Mavenir.
Agarwal said the company delivers a solution that gives mobile operators the ability to choose when, where and how they want their voice, video or messages conveyed by enabling all-IP services in a converged solution available to any device. The solution allows mobile operators of offer new mobile cloud services from a core network for video, multimedia, voice and messaging.
According to the company, a carrier can deploy the mobile cloud services of Mavenir to enable converged voice solutions on mobile VoIP services and transitions to an all-IP voice core for all-mobile access from LTE to WiMAX, down to 3G and 2G.
“We offer the flexibility for providers to mash-up these services with Facebook, voice calling, SMS, location-based services and more,” said Agarwal. “We’re able to link all (a user’s devices) together to get whatever message a company wants delivered to any device.”
The recent release of three new products for Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is expected to enable VoIP , 3GPP and circuit switch fall-back options, using the common the mOne convergence platform that allows VoLTE deployment as operators can afford or would like to spend on deployment.
The VoLTE products offer three options with a CSFB IWF solution that enables existing circuit-switch infrastructure to serve LTE subscribers over a CS domain, a MSC TAS solution that enables existing CS to serve VoLTE subscribers over IP domain, and a MMTel solution that provides a pure IP option.
Mavenir boasts that the three new VoLTE products provide a combined solution that no other company offers, provides a time-to-market solution and the pricing structure allows for enhanced flexibility in the marketplace.
“Everything is moving so fast that by the time a deployment is complete, the industry has left it behind,” said Agarwal. “We don’t want our customers to have to worry about that.”
Future plans include the expansion of Mavenir’s products and customer base overseas.
Founded in 2005, Mavenir is a provider of mobile wireless infrastructure and employs approximately 200 people and has raised $65 million of venture capital over four rounds of funding, including a significant investment from Austin Ventures. Mavenir has numerous mobile carriers as clients, including three of the top five mobile carriers in the United States, while competing against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., L.M. Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.
