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Bridgewater Unveils Comprehensive LTE Product Suite
CHICAGO, Sept. 14 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --
Smart subscriber, service and policy controls enable service providers to
rapidly trial and launch LTE
Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today
unveiled its comprehensive Long Term Evolution (LTE) product suite. New products
generally available include the Bridgewater(R) Home Subscriber Server and Policy
Controller which are both anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker(TM) and
are fully compliant with the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 8
Standards. Several global trials with major service providers are in the planning and
implementation stages with an expanded partner and interoperability ecosystem also
announced today.
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- Bridgewater's new products for the LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) draw
on the company's extensive experience with Tier 1 service providers
and market leadership in subscriber, service, and policy control
solutions optimized for the demands of mobile data. The products are
fully compliant with 3GPP Release 8 standards for LTE and include:
- The Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server (HSS), a master repository
that contains subscriber and device profile and state information,
and manages subscriber identities, service profiles,
authentication, authorization, and quality of service in real
time. The HSS federates data from existing Home Location Registers
and other databases for service parity and network migrations. It
is undergoing extensive interoperability testing with leading
Mobility Management Entity (MME) solution providers.
- The market leading Bridgewater Policy Controller (PCRF) provides
smart network, application, and subscriber policies that allow
service providers to manage mobile data growth and deliver
personalized services. Extensive interoperability testing with
leading Servicing and Packet Data Network Gateway solution
providers is underway.
- Inter-working with non-3GPP networks such as WiFi, EVDO and WiMAX
is supported by an optional Authorization, Authentication and
Accounting (3GPP AAA) module. It ensures seamless mobility and
service portability across different networks.
- Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker provides a common subscriber
data management platform that brings together rich, dynamic
subscriber data with the sophisticated tools to broker that data
to multiple systems and applications to personalize services.
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The LTE product suite is available in several flexible deployment
options:
- The Bridgewater(R) EPC 500 is an integrated system which includes
the Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server and Policy Controller on a
single hardware platform. It allows service providers to quickly
and cost-effectively engage in lab trials and limited network
deployments and can scale as services grow.
- The Home Subscriber Server and the Policy Controller are available
as stand-alone, single purpose systems that can easily integrate
with other components of an EPC network.
- It enables service providers to:
- Implement smart subscriber, service, and policy controls to manage
the complexities of exponential mobile data traffic growth, and
millions of subscribers, devices, and applications;
- Rapidly launch LTE trials and early deployments using a fully
integrated and tested EPC system which includes both the HSS and
PCRF;
- Ensure seamless network evolution through centralized control
across all mobile access technologies including LTE, GSM/HSPA,
CDMA/EVDO, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and Femtocells. This allows service
providers to optimize and seamlessly offload mobile data traffic
and applications across different networks, as well as enable
service portability; and
- Introduce LTE-ready controls in 3G networks to ensure a smooth
evolution.
Quotes
Dr. Philip Marshall, Senior Research Fellow, Yankee Group
"LTE represents a significant opportunity for service providers to not
only increase network capacity and bandwidth but to also dynamically control
and manage mobile traffic, subscribers, applications, and devices.
Bridgewater's innovative approach to the LTE Evolved Packet Core allows
service providers to take control and deliver a better and more personalized
subscriber experience."
David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Bridgewater Systems
"Bridgewater's standards-based and multi-vendor approach to the LTE
Evolved Packet Core, and our deep experience in control plane transformations,
is truly unique in the industry. The combination of the Bridgewater Home
Subscriber Server, Policy Controller and Inter-working capabilities, coupled
with our flexible deployment options, allows service providers to rapidly and
cost-effectively trial, launch, and scale LTE deployments."
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, Home Subscriber Server, HSS, Policy Controller,
PCRF, 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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