Eliminating the GTP Encapsulation Tax

For years, mobile carrier networks have been burdened by the GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP-U). Wrapping every subscriber packet in a nested GTP/UDP/IP tunnel structure introduces severe hidden engineering costs.

⚠️ The Hidden Costs of GTP:

Packet MTU Degradation: Nested headers eat up valuable byte space, increasing packet fragmentation risks.

Load-Balancing Inefficiencies: Standard core switches cannot read into nested GTP layers, causing highly uneven traffic distribution across network paths.

High CPU Overhead: Edge nodes must constantly spend processing cycles wrapping and unwrapping tunnel layers.

🚀 The Stateless Shift: By transitioning to SRv6 MUP, you replace complex GTP tunnels with clean, native IPv6 routing headers. Your underlying core network gains complete visibility into the packet stream, enabling native load balancing, zero MTU waste, and line-rate forwarding.

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