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Bridgewater Systems Enters Into Agreement to Provide Select LTE System Components to
MetroPCS in 2010
OTTAWA, Dec. 14 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --
Multi-million dollar order for Home Subscriber Server and Policy Controller to
enable rapid launch of LTE services
Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today
announced that MetroPCS Communications Inc. the nation's leading provider of
unlimited, flat-rate, no signed contract wireless communications service, has
selected its LTE product suite including the Bridgewater(R) Home Subscriber Server
and Policy Controller, both anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker(TM) for
its 4G LTE network.
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- MetroPCS has selected Bridgewater's 3GPP Release 8 compliant LTE
product suite for the launch of LTE broadband services planned for the
second half of 2010.
- For the rollout of the service, MetroPCS will deploy 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 company will also deploy the market leading Bridgewater Policy
Controller (PCRF) which provides smart network, application, and
subscriber policies to manage mobile data growth and deliver
personalized services.
- 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.
- The LTE product suite features extensive, multi-vendor
interoperability to provide service providers with network deployment
flexibility and accelerate the evolution to 4G.
Ed Ogonek, CEO, Bridgewater Systems
"We are delighted that MetroPCS, a leader in the evolution to LTE, has
selected the Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server and Policy Controller for its
4G service launch. This competitive selection is a strong market validation of
Bridgewater's unique approach to LTE and deep expertise and leadership in
control plane transformations."
Tags / Keywords
Bridgewater Systems, MetroPCS, LTE, Evolved Packet Core, Home Subscriber
Server, HSS, Policy Control, PCRF, Subscriber Data Broker
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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 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: Media Relations:
Joanne Steinberg,
Bridgewater Systems,
joanne.steinberg@bridgewatersystems.com,
(613) 591-9104 extension 2032,
Mobile: (613) 884-8831
Investor Relations:
Kim Butler,
Chief Financial Officer,
Bridgewater Systems,
kim.butler@bridgewatersystems.com,
(613) 591-9104 extension 6023;
Craig Armitage,
The Equicom Group Inc.,
carmitage@equicomgroup.com,
(416) 815-0700 extension 278
(BWC.)
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