MEDIA RELEASE PR38909
Bridgewater Named No. 1 Leader in Policy Market - New Report Shows Significant Share
Gain in Mobile Policy Segment
OTTAWA, Mar. 25 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --
Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today
announced that the company has been recognized as the 2009 policy server market
leader by Infonetics Research in its April 2010 report "Policy Servers Biannual
Worldwide and Regional Market Size, Share, and Forecasts."
News
- The Infonetics report noted that Bridgewater's position as the No. 1
market share leader in both the overall and mobile policy server
market is due to the company's success in 3G and 4G networks. The
report further states that the mobile policy server market will
continue to grow rapidly over the next five years as the market
shifts from fixed to mobile deployments, reaching US$1.2 billion in
2014.
- Service providers are increasingly implementing policy controls to:
- Optimize 3G networks using intelligent policy controls to
alleviate radio access network congestion, ensure fair usage, and
give subscribers greater control over their mobile data usage;
- Offload mobile data traffic from congested 3G networks to Wi-Fi,
femtocells, or 4G networks;
- Transform to 4G and control subscribers, devices, and applications
to ensure service portability across 3G and 4G networks; and
- Deliver innovative services such as usage and application based
models using flexible policy controls, real-time subscriber
information, and dynamic metering capabilities.
- The Bridgewater(R) Policy Controller, which supports 3GPP PCRF
Release 7, 8 and 9 standards on the same platform, provides real-time
network, application, and subscriber policies to manage mobile data
growth and deliver personalized services.
Quotes
Shira Levine, Directing Analyst, Next Gen OSS and Policy, Infonetics
Research
"Bridgewater continues to grow its wireless business, expanding its 3G
deployments in 2009 and staking its claim in the emerging WiMAX and LTE market
opportunities. Its close integration of policy and subscriber data management
on a single platform creates a compelling proposition for operators looking to
implement subscriber-aware policy control capabilities."
David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Bridgewater Systems
"The Infonetics report highlights the major shift in the policy market
towards managing mobile data and our continued share gains in the mobile
policy segment. It is a strong validation of our unique approach to the policy
market that integrates policy into multi-access control plane solutions to
alleviate RAN congestion, offload data traffic, transform to 4G, and deliver
innovative service models. With over a decade of policy experience, we are
delighted to be recognized once again as the 2009 leader in both the overall
and mobile policy server markets."
Tags/Keywords
Bridgewater Systems, Infonetics Research, Policy Controller, PCRF, Policy
Server market share, mobile personalization, RAN congestion, data offload,
fair usage, myPolicy
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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 portfolio
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 150 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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