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Bridgewater Sets Industry-First Performance Benchmarks for 3G and 4G Control Plane
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 15 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --
Independent testing demonstrates PCRF and HSS performance as part of
end-to-end mobile packet core
Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today
announced that it has set high performance benchmarks for the mobile control
plane for 3G and 4G networks as part of the mobile packet core testing
European Advanced Network Test Center (EANTC). For more details, read Heavy
Reading's new whitepaper "Control Plane Scalability and Performance
Requirements for 3G and LTE Networks."
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The 3G and 4G mobile packet core tests validated the high performance and
scalability of Bridgewater's control plane solution - the Bridgewater® Home
Subscriber Server (HSS)
under conditions which are representative of a large, data-centric Tier 1
service provider network with one million active subscribers and high mobile
data transaction rates.
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For the 3G network, the Bridgewater PCRF supported the test of Cisco's GGSN.
The test simulated one million users accessing the network at the same time at
a sustained rate of 18,000 packet data protocol (PDP) activations per second.
This equates to one million users activating data sessions in less than a
minute.
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For the 4G LTE network, the Bridgewater HSS supported the test of Cisco's
mobility management entity (MME) and the Bridgewater PCRF supported the test of
the Cisco packet data network (PDN) gateway. The test simulated one million LTE
devices coming onto the network within a short time. Once the devices were
authenticated by the HSS, the PDN gateway requested attachment policies from
the PCRF to activate both a dedicated bearer for a real-time VoIP or video data
session as well as a default bearer for data services. The Bridgewater HSS and
PCRF successfully supported sustained rates of 5,000 attachments per second.
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The 3G and 4G test scenarios were undertaken on the same Bridgewater PCRF
hardware and software platform, demonstrating support for the evolution from 3G
to 4G including full compliance with 3GPP Release 7 and 8 standards.
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Bridgewater, a Cisco Preferred Solution Developer
sole third party PCRF solution provider supporting the EANTC test of Cisco's
mobile packet core. The Bridgewater HSS and PCRF are now available on the Cisco
Unified Computing System (UCS)
platform.
Quotes
Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director, EANTC AG
"The EANTC tests are the first publicly available, comprehensive performance
tests of Cisco's mobile packet core supported by Bridgewater's control plane
solutions, carried out by an independent testing organization. A high
performance control plane is critical in meeting future operator requirements
for mobile data networks."
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
"Smartphone use cases, end-user applications, and the way devices interact with
the network, are evolving rapidly. This makes the control-plane performance of
mobile packet core equipment critical to operators as they manage this
transition and design their networks to meet future requirements."
David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Bridgewater Systems
"In collaboration with Cisco, Bridgewater has set the industry performance
benchmark for the 3G and 4G control plane. These independently validated
results for the Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server and Policy Controller
reflect our continued commitment to exceeding the carrier-grade performance and
scalability requirements of our customers as they deploy next generation mobile
networks."
Tags / Keywords
Bridgewater Systems, Cisco, LTE, Home Subscriber Server, HSS, Policy
Controller, PCRF, Evolved Packet Core, ASR 5000, Heavy Reading
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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™, the portfolio of carrier-grade and
standards-based products includes the Bridgewater® Service Controller (AAA),
the Bridgewater® Policy Controller (PCRF) and the Bridgewater® 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 information, visit us
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
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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;
Tony Tan
Siren-Communication - Asia Pacific
tony@siren-communication.com
+65 9048 6981
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