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Bridgewater Continues LTE Momentum with Five Trials Confirmed for 2010
BARCELONA, Feb. 15 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --
EPC 500 'control-plane-in-a-box' system provided to LTE partners and five
major operators in Asia Pacific and North and South America
Mobile World Congress Hall 1 Stand 1F47 - Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization
company, today announced that the Bridgewater(R) EPC 500, a trial-ready 'control-plane-in-a-box' system for
the LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC), is gaining significant market traction with partners and five major
operators globally.
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- Building upon its multimillion dollar LTE win at MetroPCS
(equal sign)371), Bridgewater is providing its new EPC 500 system for
LTE trials with five Tier 1 mobile operators in Asia Pacific and
North and South America.
- The company has successfully completed extensive interoperability
testing with LTE components provided by its 4G partner and
interoperability ecosystem including: the Mobility Management Entity,
and Serving and Packet Data Network Gateways.
- Bridgewater is continuing to expand its partner and interoperability
ecosystem to accelerate the industry's evolution to LTE. The company
is participating in the MultiService Forum LTE Interoperability event
in Germany in March which is supported by China Mobile, Vodafone
(LSE: VOD), and Verizon (NYSE: VZ). The event will validate Home
Subscriber Server (HSS) and Policy Control (PCRF) interfaces for
multi-vendor deployment strategies and interworking with non-3GPP
networks.
- The Bridgewater EPC 500 is an integrated LTE system that provides
subscriber and device data management, policy control, and
interworking functions for the Evolved Packet Core. Specifically
designed to support trials and small to medium scale deployments, it
features the Bridgewater(R) Home Subscriber Server and Policy
Controller, anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker(TM). It
is pre-integrated on a hardware platform and fully compliant with
3GPP Release 8 standards.
- It enables mobile operators 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 and cost-effectively launch LTE trials and early
deployments up to 100,000 subscribers in days using a fully
integrated and tested EPC system to support functions such as
subscriber and service modeling, roaming, and quality of service
management; and
- Easily migrate to large scale commercial deployments. The EPC 500
can also support migration to separate HSS and PCRF platforms in
order to meet large scale commercial deployment requirements.
Quotes
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
"The ability to support a diverse mix of delay sensitive, rich media
services alongside best effort Internet access is critical for operators
seeking to attain attractive, blended, margins on all-IP LTE networks.
3GPP-defined policy tools are emerging as central to this capability because
of the role they play in enabling operators to balance traffic growth with
demands for service quality across different sets of applications and customer
segments."
David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Bridgewater Systems
"Bridgewater's strategy of focusing on the LTE control plane including
the Home Subscriber Server, Policy Controller and interworking functions
positions us well for 4G deployments and trials in 2010 and beyond. Our early
success with the EPC 500 integrated 'control-plane-in-a-box' system coupled
with our deep expertise in large scale deployments across all mobile access
technologies is giving us a significant competitive advantage in the market."
Visit Bridgewater Systems and see the LTE Machine-to-Machine, Data
Offload, and Smart Policy Control Demonstrations at Mobile World Congress,
Hall 1 - Stand 1F47, February 15-18, 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Join
Bridgewater's Russ Freen, Chief Technology Officer, at the 'Network Breaking
Point' session to discuss solutions for managing mobile data growth on
February 17th at 2:00 PM.
Tags / Keywords
Bridgewater Systems, LTE, EPC 500, MultiService Forum, Home Subscriber
Server, HSS, Policy Controller, PCRF, AAA, 3GPP, Evolved Packet Core
Links
r_LTE_TakeControl_Sept09.pdf
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@bridgewatersystems.com,
+1 (613) 884-8831;
Ed Barker, Bridgewater Systems,
edward.barker@bridgewatersystems.com,
+44 (0) 7939 492 656
(BWC.)
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