Starent Networks is a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services to their subscribers. Our solutions combine significant computer power, memory, and traffic handling capabilities with highly distributed software architecture designed to provide high availability, flexibility, and performance built on the power of a Linux operating system.

We have created solutions that provide several core network functions and services, including access from a wide range of radio networks to the operator's IP, or packet core network, mobility management of subscriber sessions, and call control. Our access-independent solution integrates multiple network functions needed for the delivery of advanced multimedia services, such as video, Internet access, voice-over-IP, e-mail, mobile TV, photo sharing, and gaming.

We have developed our multimedia core platforms and our proprietary software specifically to address the needs of packet-based mobile networks. Our products are designed to provide mobile operators with new revenue opportunities while also reducing their costs. Our products possess a high degree of system intelligence, which allows a mobile operator to understand the details of each subscriber session, enabling individual subscriber management and network traffic flow control.

Our products also offer high performance capabilities, such as high capacity, significant throughput, and rapid transaction rates, which increase the efficiency of the network and enhance the mobile subscriber's experience. To increase reliability, our platform employs full hardware redundancy and software high-availability techniques. By integrating several network functions into a single element, we allow mobile operators to simplify their networks. We designed our solutions to be access independent in that they can function across a range of 2.5G, 3G, and 4G mobile and wireless radio access networks.