OTTAWA, June 2 /PRNewswire/ --
- Leading Subscriber-Centric Service Control Vendor to Provide Best of Breed Network Access Control Solution for 4G Network
Bridgewater Systems (TSX:BWC) today announced its selection as the network access control vendor for Sprint's new nationwide XOHM WiMAX Network. Bridgewater is the incumbent supplier of Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) services to Sprint's existing CDMA 3G network and will now extend its solution to support XOHM as well. Through the capabilities of the Bridgewater solution, Sprint will be able to provide high performance network access control, and support open network access services such as over the air provisioning of devices, subscribers and on-demand service models, and lawful intercept services.
"Bridgewater is a valued partner, and has provided extremely reliable services to us for the CDMA network over the years," said Douglas Smith, chief technical operations officer, Sprint Nextel. "Their ability to extend the existing platform to meet our current and planned needs for WiMAX, while still also servicing our CDMA network, is extremely cost-beneficial."
By being agnostic to various access technologies as well as vendor-specific solutions, the Bridgewater solution is able to support a wide array of access networks and interoperate with multiple network vendor equipment types from a single platform. Within Sprint, Bridgewater will provide concurrent support for 3G and 4G networks from a common infrastructure as Sprint begins to commercially deploy the XOHM WiMAX network in 2008.
"Bridgewater is pleased that its network access control solution is expanding within Sprint to enable innovative new 4G services for XOHM customers, such as light touch provisioning for open access models," said Phil Thrasher, senior vice president worldwide sales, services and marketing for Bridgewater Systems. "Already proven in Sprint's network to provide scalable high performance access control services, our solution is able to interoperate with a broad range of vendor equipment types providing Sprint with the flexibility to evolve their network and accelerate time to market for new services."
As a principal member of the WiMAX Forum driving standards development around AAA and policy, Bridgewater is well positioned to bring its insights to customers to ensure fast deployments. Bridgewater has been selected by nine 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 de-risk WiMAX deployments. Fully compliant with the WiMAX Forum's Network Working Group Stage 3 specification, the Bridgewater Systems AAA Service Controller provides extensive mobile WiMAX support often not supported on legacy AAA servers such as device authentication and mobile IP. The AAA Service Controller also features concurrent support for RADIUS and Diameter, as well as broad supplemental authentication protocols such as EAP-TLS and EAP-TTLS. With a common policy and subscriber profile repository that serves all access networks, service providers can create a unified view of subscribers, and realize operational efficiencies by eliminating the need to re-provision subscribers as new access technologies such as WiMAX are introduced.
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 100 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
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Forward Looking Statements
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-à-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.
For further information: Media Contacts: Mi liberty, Claudette Cameron, +44-207-751-44-44, ccameron@miliberty.com; Greg Perry, +1-770-919-7366, gperry@miliberty.com; Camber Communications (Asia Pacific), Kevin Foo, +65-6333-0231, kevin.foo@cambercommunications.com; Investor Relations Contacts: The Equicom Group Inc., Vanessa Beresford, +1-416-815-0700 ext 227, vberesford@equicomgroup.com; Bridgewater Systems, Kim Butler, Chief Financial Officer, +1-613-591-9104 ext 6023, kim.butler@bridgewatersystems.com/
For further information: Media Contacts: Mi liberty, Claudette Cameron, +44-207-751-44-44, ccameron@miliberty.com; Greg Perry, +1-770-919-7366, gperry@miliberty.com; Camber Communications (Asia Pacific), Kevin Foo, +65-6333-0231, kevin.foo@cambercommunications.com; Investor Relations Contacts: The Equicom Group Inc., Vanessa Beresford, +1-416-815-0700 ext 227, vberesford@equicomgroup.com; Bridgewater Systems, Kim Butler, Chief Financial Officer, +1-613-591-9104 ext 6023, kim.butler@bridgewatersystems.com/
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