MEDIA RELEASE PR35979
Bridgewater Expands 4G Partner and Interoperability Ecosystem
CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 14 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --
Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today
announced the expansion of its 4G partner and interoperability ecosystem for LTE and
WiMAX networks. The company also unveiled its LTE Product Suite today.
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- Bridgewater is continuing to expand its partner and interoperability
ecosystem to accelerate and facilitate the industry's evolution to
4G, build best-of-breed multi-vendor and multi-access solutions, and
enable service providers to deliver a superior, personalized 4G
subscriber experience.
- Bridgewater's goals are to:
- Give service providers unparalleled network deployment
flexibility;
- Deliver the industry's most comprehensive set of 4G control plane
solutions; and
- Provide the broadest multi-vendor industry support and
interoperability.
- The company's proven portfolio of subscriber data management, service
and policy control products work across any network access technology
and are designed to enable the transformation to 4G.
- Bridgewater's open and standards-based 4G ecosystem includes the
following leading networking solution providers, technology
providers, and channel partners: Starent Networks (NASDAQ: STAR),
Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), NEC (TSE: 6701),
Hitachi (NYSE:HIT, TSE: 6501), Samsung (KSE: 005390), Huawei, Nokia
Siemens Networks (NYSE: NOK), WiChorus, and Verint.
- Global LTE trials with major service providers are in the planning
and implementation stages. Interoperability testing is also underway
with several LTE solution providers. For example, Hitachi and
Bridgewater are working together in an LTE trial in Asia. The
Bridgewater(R) Home Subscriber Server is being integrated with
Hitachi's Evolved Packet Core solution including the MME, the Policy
and Charging Rules Function, and the Serving and Packet Data Network
gateways as well as professional services. Lab and interoperability
testing is currently underway.
- Bridgewater has over 35 WiMAX deployments globally including 4 new
deployments announced today and has completed interoperability
testing with major solution providers.
Quotes
David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Bridgewater Systems
"Collaborative and open partner ecosystems are one of the most effective
ways to accelerate the transition to 4G. We continue to invest in a broad
partner and interoperability ecosystem to help our service provider customers
rapidly launch 4G services and deliver innovative mobile services such as
interactive video, machine-to-machine applications, and advanced social
networking."
Visit Bridgewater Systems at 4G World, Meeting Room 835, September 15-18,
2009 at McCormick Place in Chicago to learn more about our innovative
solutions for 4G LTE and WiMAX. Join Bridgewater's David Sharpley, Senior Vice
President, Marketing and Product Management for a discussion on the "Open
Mobile Network Business Opportunity" on September 17th at 2:00 PM.
Tags / Keywords
Bridgewater Systems, LTE, WiMAX, Home Subscriber Server, HSS, Policy
Controller, PCRF, Service Controller, AAA, 3GPP, Evolved Packet Core
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About Bridgewater Systems
Bridgewater Systems, the mobile personalization company, enables service
providers to efficiently manage and profit from mobile data services, content
and commerce. The company's market leading mobile personalization suite
provides a real-time, unified view of subscribers including entitlements,
devices, networks, billing profiles, preferences and context. Anchored by
Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker(TM), the portfolio of carrier-grade and
standards-based products includes the Bridgewater(R) Service Controller (AAA),
the Bridgewater(R) Policy Controller (PCRF) and the Bridgewater(R) Home
Subscriber Server (HSS). More than 140 leading service providers including
America Movil, Bell Canada, Clearwire, Cox, Hutchison Telecom, Iusacell,
Scartel, SmarTone-Vodafone, Sprint, Tata Teleservices, Tatung, Telmex,
Telstra, and Verizon Wireless use Bridgewater's solutions to rapidly deliver
innovative mobile services to over 150 million subscribers. For more
Bridgewater, Bridgewater Systems, the Bridgewater Systems logo, WideSpan,
Smart Caps, myPolicy, and Subscriber Data Broker are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Bridgewater Systems Corporation. All other company, product
names and any registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned are used for
identification purposes only and remain the exclusive property of their
respective owners.
SOURCE: Bridgewater Systems
CONTACT: Joanne Steinberg, Bridgewater Systems,
joanne.steinberg(at)bridgewatersystems.com,
Tel: +1 613 591-9104 extension 2032,
Mobile: +1 613 884-8831;
James Cook, MS&L North America,
james.cook(at)mslworldwide.com,
+1 416 967-3702
(BWC.)
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