Tilgin releases IMS home gateway in line with Home Gateway Initiative release 1
Tilgin, a leading provider of customer premises equipment for triple play and IMS solutions, today announces the launch of Vood 450w, one of the first IMS residential gateways on the market. The Vood 450w also aligns with the requirement specifications of the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) to ensure comprehensive operator managed functionality for next-generation broadband services.
The new Vood 450w IP Residential Gateway delivers operator managed fixed and wireless services in the home. It aligns with the Home Gateway Initiative (release 1) as well as introduces IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) functionality into the home. The Vood 450w extends the provider’s network onto the customer premises supporting centrally managed, multi-service connectivity for residential environments.
“The Vood 450w offers service providers a fully auto-provisioned and managed home gateway solution that fulfils the tough requirements of IPTV and early IMS deployments”, says Dante Iacovoni, Marketing Director at Tilgin. “It aligns with the Home Gateway Initiative’s requirements for a state-of-the-art gateway, as well as including key functionality from the recently announced Tilgin IMS@HomeTM platform to deliver IMS-based services such as Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) at home.”
The Vood 450w sits between the access network (ADSL) on one side, and home devices on the other. It hosts four Ethernet LAN ports and a secure built-in access point for Wi-Fi enabled devices and FMC services.
The Vood 450w enables high quality, high performance IPTV viewing, proving full service separation and QoS both over the WAN connection and on the home network. This includes intra-home data flows as part of the end-to-end QoS scheme, up- and downstream QoS, and prioritization of intra-home flows with respect to access network traffic as well as the QoS retagging of LAN-side traffic.
Centralized management delivers results
Vood 450w is centrally managed to keep the service provider in control – making the gateway an integrated component of their network and establishing presence deep into the home of their subscriber. It also provides controlled home network connectivity via simultaneous routing and bridging, port/service mapping, and direct connections between home devices.
“Our software engineering is what makes us stand out from the rest. The platform, the Vood software and our management application all tie together to provide a powerful solution that also cuts costs. We deliver a CPE solution that service providers can upgrade over time, delivering impressive OPEX savings while also opening up new revenue streams.”
The Vood 450w includes auto-provisioning and configuration that dramatically reduces the cost of rolling out and upgrading services. Helpdesk type functionality provides network fault and performance statistics, data and diagnosis functionality, network/connection status, gateway faults, and software/service update status. Both the management system and the Vood 450w gateway support TR-069 specifications.