OpenEPC for Research and Development

OpenEPC enables a quick start for prototyping applications for emerging all-IP broadband mobile networks with the EPC architecture. The software offers:

• Easy development: OpenEPC is implemented in alignment with the standards put up by 3GPP Rel. 9 and is available for licensing with its entire source code. All developed components were inspired by the current standards with optimizations for operation in all-IP environments. Being an independent R&D organization without the goal of commercial deployments, we put a focus on adding also new concepts and functionality that are currently not already realized within the standards. Yet, as the OpenEPC brings together more than 10 different components, its complexity should not be underestimated. When licensing the components fully featured configuration and provisioning data as well as an installation and how-to guides up to source code documentation will be provided. This should allow for an easy learning curve even without having any previous EPC knowledge.
• Configurability: OpenEPC can be provided, deployed and configured to match the needs for testing only some components or use cases. As an example, all interfaces are both IPv4 and IPv6 ready and can be provisioned as required.
• Extensibility: adding new functionality whether new mobility schemes or QoS protocols or other features to the components is as easy as it gets with the modular OpenEPC architecture.

Functional testing, conformance testing or interoperability tests of individual or multi components can be done using OpenEPC.

OpenEPC can be used by connecting your access network setup and Service Delivery Platforms e.g. for IMS, advanced Internet applications or other. For demonstration purposes, we also provide applications (e.g. the Open IMS Core, www.openimscore.org) and clients (based on myMONSTER Telco Communicator Suite, www.mymonster.org) to equip you with an operational testbed speeding up your research and development activities.