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Bridgewater Systems Leads in WiMAX Service Control Solutions
BARCELONA, Spain, February 12 /PRNewswire/ -- - Industry-Leading Solutions Selected by WiMAX Service Providers; Set the Bar for WiMAX Service Control Innovation Bridgewater Systems (TSX:BWC) today announced it has been selected by seven WiMAX service providers to provide a range of service control solutions, underscoring the company's leadership in delivering carrier-grade solutions that help service providers accelerate and derisk WiMAX deployments, differentiate services, and merchandize their broadband infrastructure investment. To date, Bridgewater has been selected by seven WiMAX service providers around the world, including two Tier 1 North American service providers, and is actively involved in more than 12 WiMAX trials. The Bridgewater Systems(TM) service control solutions leverage a dynamic view of each subscriber and their present "context" - the network they are on, the device they are using, the quality of service of the network, as well as their subscriber profile showing their subscription level, historical usage patterns and other parameters. This provides operators with the tools they need to support key WiMAX applications such as over the air provisioning, lawful intercept, and subscriber service control across networks. These solutions include broad support for fixed and mobile WiMAX, including support for WiMAX Forum(R) standards to ensure interoperability. As a principal member of the WiMAX Forum driving standards development around AAA and policy, Bridgewater is well positioned to bring these insights to customers to ensure fast deployments. The Bridgewater(R) WiMAX solutions are access network and equipment vendor agnostic, enabling service providers to easily deploy and provide concurrent support of mixed network environments: Network Access Control - AAA Service Controller is a carrier-grade authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) solution for fixed and mobile WiMAX deployments, fully compliant with the WiMAX Forum's NWG Stage 3 Release 1.0.0 specification, and supporting a broad range of functions including EAP authentication methods and mobile IP and key derivation required for mobile WiMAX. Subscriber service control - With a common subscriber policy repository serving all access networks, service providers can create a unified view of subscribers, accelerate time to market for new services, and realize operational efficiencies by eliminating the need to reprovision subscribers as new access technologies such as WiMAX are introduced. Over-the-air provisioning support - As subscribers come online with a new WiMAX device, Bridgewater leverages unique dynamic information about the subscriber - device type, location, subscription level - to enable device provisioning over their air that reduces service turnup costs and enables immediate subscriber access to WiMAX services. This solution also enables firmware over the air (FOTA), allowing service providers to easily manage ongoing and frequent updates to new WiMAX device firmware, and improve subscriber satisfaction by making the most current device innovations available to them seamlessly. Lawful Intercept - WiMAX networks create challenges for traditional lawful intercept solutions in that encryption exists to hide the identity of the subscriber or user. Bridgewater derives and maintains accurate subscriber context information -- such as IP address, pseudo identity and location in real time -- and maps this information to a subscriber profile, enabling a lawful intercept to occur over WiMAX networks. Concurrent Support for Fixed and Mobile WiMAX - Bridgewater WiMAX solutions enable service providers to provide a seamless transition from fixed to mobile WiMAX minimizing disruption to existing subscriber management systems. Prepaid and Postpaid Accounting Mediation - Bridgewater solutions captures, formats, and processes subscriber usage data across multiple access technologies to support prepaid and postpaid charging applications. "Bridgewater has emerged as the leading provider of WiMAX service control - a critical capability for delivering a rich subscriber experience that drives competitive differentiation and profitability," said Farshid Mohammadi, vice president of product line management for Bridgewater Systems. "The significant traction we're enjoying with WiMAX service providers demonstrates Bridgewater's leadership in unique service control solutions. Our ability to enable innovative light-touch provisioning of users and devices is an important milestone and a key enabler for new open network business models and services." In addition to Bridgewater's extensive and proven interoperability with a broad range of OSS/BSS, network and application platform vendors, Bridgewater is building a rich WiMAX interoperability ecosystem with device management platform vendors, network and RAN equipment vendors. This interoperability enables service providers to build best of breed WiMAX networks based on their choice of equipment and software providers, providing a future proof solution. Bridgewater has established channel partnerships for the company's WiMAX solutions: << - Motorola, Inc. will incorporate and distribute the Bridgewater Systems AAA Service Controller as a key component in Motorola's WiMAX infrastructure solutions. - Alvarion will offer Bridgewater's proven AAA Service Controller as part of its all-IP 4Motion(TM) WiMAX solution. - Nortel is integrating the Bridgewater Systems market-leading AAA Service Controller as part of their comprehensive mobile WiMAX solution. >> Meet with Bridgewater Systems at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona - Stand 1G59 Hall 1. About Bridgewater Systems Bridgewater Systems develops subscriber-centric service control solutions, including access control and policy management software for fixed, mobile and converged networks. Using Bridgewater solutions, global service providers can offer personalized services and experiences to their subscribers by maintaining a real time policy that controls how subscribers interact with networks, services, and their devices. Vendor-neutral and access network agnostic, Bridgewater's carrier-class solutions help global service providers launch new services faster, target them more accurately, and maximize profits by creating a decision point that brings dynamic subscriber context to controlling and merchandizing the subscriber interaction with IP-based services. More than 90 leading service providers around the globe including Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, Bell Mobility and SmarTone-Vodafone trust Bridgewater's technology to help them deliver world-class services. http://www.bridgewatersystems.com Bridgewater, Bridgewater Systems and the Bridgewater Systems logo 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. Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws and are made pursuant to the "safe harbour" provisions of such laws. Statements related to potential benefits of, and demand for, Bridgewater's products including statements with respect to the features and benefits that may be achieved through the use of Bridgewater's products and the relative position of these products vis-Ã -vis competitive offerings in the industry are forward-looking statements which are subject to certain assumptions, risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Risk factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Bridgewater to differ materially from the results, performance, achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements can be found in the public documents filed by Bridgewater from time to time with Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Bridgewater assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
