At LTE Asia, Singapore, Stoke Launches New Regional Entity; Addresses Key Operator Issues in Controlling and Securing Mobi

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At LTE Asia 2011 in Singapore, September 6 – 7, mobile broadband gateway developer Stoke Inc. launches a new entity in Singapore to support its growing engagements in the region. During the show, Stoke will also present insights and solutions on the topic of securing and controlling high volume, high growth traffic over LTE networks.

New Stoke Singapore Presence

Supporting its ongoing growth, Stoke will formally launch a new subsidiary office in Singapore and introduce Senior Sales Director for South East Asia, Wing Hong Chan, who will lead Stoke’s engagements with mobile broadband operators in the region. Wing Hong Chan joined Stoke on August 22.

Before joining Stoke, Wing worked for Redback/Ericsson. He previously held senior sales positions at Foundry and Datacraft/Dimension Data, and brings to Stoke an exceptional level of experience in working with the major carriers and partners in the region. Wing is based in Singapore and is fluent in Mandarin, Malay and English.

“Stoke is one of the most exciting players in our industry, with a modern and highly effective approach to helping mobile broadband operators manage their most important issues,” said Wing Hong Chan. “The massive growth in demand for mobile data opens the door for innovative companies such as Stoke, and I am very pleased to be part of the organization.”

Stoke recently expanded its global footprint with new branch offices in France and Spain and, adding to its entities in the UK and Japan, opened a new subsidiary in Seoul, South Korea. Stoke continues to expand its engineering, support and sales resources, attracting talent from major telecom and wireless industry players, and expects to double its employee base by the close of this year.

LTE Asia Perspectives

At the LTE Asia conference, Stoke CTO Dave Williams, who was previously CTO at Comcast and prior to that O2 Telefonica Europe, will participate in a panel discussion on the role of small cells in providing coverage in remote areas, on September 6 at 16.40.

“Singapore is moving swiftly with introduction and trials of LTE, although operators and regulators here and elsewhere in Asia are still working to overcome the hurdle of spectrum fragmentation,” observed Williams. “The industry here must also strategize its approach to one of the most pressing global challenges for LTE operators, the need for security. The all-IP LTE is inherently less secure than the ‘closed’ 2G and 3G networks. In order to maintain user confidence, operators are paying very close attention to securing all points of their network. We are seeing exceptional interest in Stoke’s offerings as a result.”

With more standalone eNodeB secure aggregation gateways shipped than any other vendor, Stoke is in the volume leadership position in this EPC device category.

The security concerns associated with the use of all-IP in LTE networks, combined with sharp growth in LTE wireless services, are challenging the scaling and performance capabilities of even the most cutting-edge networks. Spectrum constraints require the use of a variety of offload and backhaul technologies, which must be aggregated, integrated and secured as they pass from the Radio Access Network to the operator core. With voice and video the most widely used LTE applications, performance quality must be balanced with securing users’ data.

At booth #44 at the show, Stoke will showcase its new generation LTE technology, including its market-leading LTE security aggregation gateways which are designed to solve problems of rapid, unpredictable growth while securing traffic over the hybrid LTE network.

About Stoke, Inc.

Stoke is the mobile industry’s only transformation platform, delivering future-focused thinking and solutions for 3G mobile broadband and LTE core infrastructures. Stoke enables mobile operators, through the application of Business-Crossover™ thinking, to overcome limitations inherent in legacy approaches and architectures, helping them tackle the new realities of 3G mobile data service delivery today and successfully navigate their transition to 4G services platforms tomorrow. For more information, visit www.stoke.com.

CONTACT:

For Stoke
Mary McEvoy Carroll, +1-408-691-4283
mary@sandhillcomms.com

KEYWORDS:   United States  Asia Pacific  North America  California  Singapore

INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:   Technology  Internet  Networks  Telecommunications  Security  Mobile/Wireless

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