Casa Systems Develops Cloud-Native Solution to Extend Wireless Wireline Convergence Capabilities to Hybrid Cloud Environments with AWS

• Cloud-native access gateway function (AGF) solution allows service providers offering both wireline and wireless services to eliminate redundant network core components and reduce capital and operating expenses.
  
• Casa’s AGF solution, now proven in private, and hybrid cloud environments, allows service providers to deploy and scale their services according to enterprise customer requirements.
• The work between Casa and AWS highlights the growing role of cloud-native network solutions in telecommunications.
  

ANDOVER, Mass., Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Casa Systems (Nasdaq: CASA), provider of cloud-native network solutions serving communications services providers worldwide, today announced a breakthrough in wireless wireline convergence (WWC): a successful deployment of Casa’s virtualized 5G Core control plane function on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using AWS Region, with Casa’s virtualized access gateway function (AGF) and 5G Core user plane function in private cloud. This proof of concept extends WWC capabilities to the hybrid cloud, demonstrating Casa’s unrivaled ability to support service providers with a flexible AGF solution with the potential to dramatically lower operators’ capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure (OpEx) and be integrated with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on-premises to further automate operations.

Today, wireless and wireline services are delivered from two distinct technology implementations with separate network cores. The differences force service providers to support diverse network assets, redundant network functions, and operational overhead, resulting in higher capital and operating costs. Casa’s ability to link access networks together with a single converged 5G Core gives service providers ultimate flexibility to offer customers seamless continuity across voice, video, data, and mobility experiences.

“This latest demonstration of our AGF solution’s flexibility underscores the foundational role of cloud-native architecture in enhancing communication service provider (CSP) agility,” said Colin Kincaid, Chief Product Officer at Casa Systems. “The work with AWS to run our AGF with our 5G Core in the public cloud environment is a testament to Casa’s commitment to empowering service providers and advancing their modernization efforts.”