SK Telecom Deployed A10 Networks Thunder CFW for the World's First 5G Commercial Service Network
August 08 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Thunder® CFW Provides Leading Gi Firewall
Security, CGNAT Performance and IPv6 Translation for 5G Commercial
Network
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) today announced that SK Telecom,
Korea’s largest mobile network operator, has deployed its Thunder
CFW (Convergent Firewall) as part of core equipment of SK Telecom’s
5G network. SK Telecom launched the world's first commercial
service on April 3, 2019.
“South Korea is leading the 5G rollout, where big investments in
infrastructure and cellular technology has given it first-mover
advantage. Our unique value propositions of high-performance,
consolidated application services, were completely aligned with SK
Telecom’s 5G SGi/Gi-LAN and multi-access edge computing (MEC)
requirements. Our team is excited to work with SKT as we believe
the 5G market opportunity in Korea is significantly larger than
with 4G,” said Lee Chen, founder and CEO of A10 Networks.
A10 Networks' Thunder 14045 CFW is a hardware physical network
function (PNF) platform that supports up to 300 Gbps throughput and
512 million concurrent sessions per second and supports
carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) and NAT64 IPv6
translation for SK Telecom’s new 5G-based IP services. The A10
Networks solution will support all the requirements of SK Telecom’s
5G services:
- Up to one million subscribers per square kilometer
- High-scale simultaneous connections per second - more than 135
million sessions per second
- Low latency - 20 Gbps internet use at the speed of 500 km per
hour
- Maximum concurrent subscribers – a minimum one million
subscribers within 1 km2
- A superior number of concurrent connections per second - more
than 135 million sessions per second
- Dynamic deep packet buffer
Together, these parameters satisfied the requirements of SK
Telecom’s 5G NAT request for proposal (RFP).
Korea's mobile internet use has exploded over the past decade
since smartphones were first introduced, and the already exhausted
IPv4 addresses have made it impossible to support IP services for
the increasing mobile network subscribers. As a result, the IPv6
address system, which has been deployed since 4G/LTE, has become an
essential technology that must be adopted in the 5G network. 5G
networks will be forced to allocate IPv6 addresses for all
subscribers due to the demand of IoT devices, smartphones, smart
cities, smart factories, connected cars, telemedicine, augmented
and virtual reality devices, which will continue to increase in the
coming years.
The network core of telecom service providers have been fully
supporting the IPv6 addressing system for the last 10+ years, but
most enterprises, homes and other organizations are still using
IPv4 addresses. A10 Networks’ Thunder CFW solution provides full
end-to-end connectivity by simultaneously supporting real-time
mutual address translations between IPv4 and IPv6 in environments
where both addressing schemes can coexist. In addition to the
advanced CGNAT solution, the Thunder CFW solution also provides SK
Telecom with an advanced Gi firewall to protect the customer’s most
valuable mobile packet core and its services.
The Thunder CFW solution provides leading CGNAT capabilities,
which have been fully proven in SK Telecom’s production network for
its commercial 4G/LTE services, distinguishing it from competing
solutions.
In addition, the A10 Harmony Controller® analytics and
management solution connects and manages all the Thunder CFW
devices that are delivered and installed in SK Telecom's 5G
commercial network. The A10 Harmony Controller enables SK Telecom's
network operations teams to view real-time traffic trends and data
by source, app, and service based on accurate analytics and
end-to-end statistics. Therefore, SK Telecom will be able to carry
out remote troubleshooting, lifecycle management and to forecast
equipment management, expansions and relocation according to
increased 5G traffic going forward.
“SK Telecom started the world's first 5G commercial service on
April 3, 2019. We are very satisfied with the performance and
stability of our initial 5G services and the network operations
moving towards hyper connectivity. We have prepared a lot for this
over the years. For the 5G infrastructure that theoretically
provides broadband wireless data service up to 20Gbps, SK Telecom
rebuilt the entire network including core/edge routers, vEPC, gNBs
with ultra-high-capacity, super-low latency and high-reliability to
meet with the 5G standard. In particular, for CGNAT devices, which
are a mission-critical component for IP services with 5G, we
decided to deploy A10 Networks Thunder CFW because of its superb
performance, functionality and highest reliability. It was a
superior choice.”
“The higher performance and more advanced features of the A10
Networks Thunder CFW PNF were a key part of our conclusion so we
could guarantee the quality of services. A10 Networks’ high
reliability, which was proven in our 4G/LTE service network over
the past years has shown the best performance in handling not only
NAT44 but also NAT64 traffic with no service interruptions. A10
Networks was the only solution that satisfied 100 percent of our
requirements,” said by SE WOOK KIM, director of core engineering
team of SK Telecom.
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