On a recent visit to Silicon Valley, I was fortunate enough to meet with the executive marketing team at Stoke, Inc., a developer of gateways for carriers to use in their networks. Stoke is looking ahead to an exciting 2008, replete with new opportunities to offer carriers new tools to address their growing concerns and needs, such as what’s happening at the edge of the carrier networks with regard to new devices, increased volumes of content, unlicensed access, video increasingly stressing those networks, 4G technology, and so on.
Stoke believes they have the tools to help carriers succeed in a world where networks are under constant assault.
I’m looking forward to hearing more about what Stoke has on tap for 2008 and sharing it with TMCnet’s readership.
In the meantime, Stoke is not content to sit on their laurels as regards their current offerings. In October, the company announced significant enhancements for its Stoke Session Exchange 3000 (SSX-3000) Multi-Access Convergence Gateway (News - Alert) (News - Alert). According to the release hailing this announcement, the company said that “the SSX is purpose-built for scalable, stateful management of secure, reliable, high-quality subscriber sessions over multiple network access types including fixed, cellular, WiFi
(News - Alert) and WiMAX.”
These enhancements are squarely targeted at helping mobile operators deploy and monetize Web 2.0 services over the breadth of available broadband access alternatives. The new features are delivered as part of the Packet Data Gateway (PDG) and Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF) instantiations of the SSX-3000.
Referring to the SSX-3000 as “new machinery” for mobilizing Web 2.0 services, Stoke is touting the solution’s ability to deliver performance and scalability for a "2.0" world; encrypt throughput to deliver large volumes of high-bandwidth, delay sensitive applications; reduce latency while performing functions that include encryption/decryption, traffic classification, and Quality of Service (QoS); and offer support for over 300,000 concurrent, encrypted unique streaming videos in a single rack of equipment.
At the time of the release this past October, Stoke president and CEO Vikash Varma, said "…the Internet edge is under tremendous pressure with the explosion of video, growth in access alternatives and the mass market acceptance of sophisticated broadband, multimedia mobile devices. At Stoke, we've introduced significant innovation aimed at retooling the edge for commercial-grade broadband mobile services that offer subscribers a secure, multimedia Internet experience."
I’m looking forward to watching how the company plans to attack this opportunity in 2008.
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