Cisco 76xx PDSN
Cisco remains the market’s routing leader. The company’s PDSN still borrows from this strength, claiming some strong metrics. Yet, a lack of recent upgrades – and Starent’s ST40 – suggests the new SAMI blade needs to be put to good use soon. (7/8/2008)

Price: $495

Starent Networks ST16/ST40 Intelligent Mobile Gateway
With nearly a year in the market, Starent’s ST40 can point to a solid track record of operations along with performance-besting competitors on most fronts. Of course, in CDMA, Starent’s commercial momentum is doubtless its biggest asset. (7/8/2008)

Price: $495

UTStarcom Total Control 2000 PDSN
UTStarcom’s PDSN platform is not strategic to the company’s networks business. It’s also not received any recent upgrades – despite competitor innovations. The result, despite some compelling metrics, is an undeniably weak offer. (7/8/2008)

Price: $495

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• Buying Criteria
  • Billing Capabilities
    • The extent of support for post-paid and pre-paid data billing.
  • Value-Added Service Capabilities
    • The extent of feature support that enables operator deployed services beyond simple packet transport over mobile wireless networks.
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• Product Metrics
  • Physical Specifications
    • Equipment Description
    • Dimensions
    • Volume
    • Footprint
    • Rack Quantity
    • Mass
    • Switch Fabric
    • Power Supply
    • Power Consumption
    • System Availability
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    • WAN Protocols
    • DiffServ
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    • Port Address Translation
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    • IPSEC Capability
    • RFC2547bis VPN
    • Max IPSEC Security Associations
    • Stateful Firewall
    • Other Value Add Features
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