Mobile Personalization

Bridgewater Systems, the mobile personalization company, claimed that the Bridgewater EPC 500, a trial-ready 'control-plane-in-a-box' system for the LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC), is gaining significant market traction with partners and five major operators globally.

Officials with Bridgewater Systems (News - Alert) said that the company, building upon its multimillion dollar LTE win at MetroPCS, is providing its new EPC 500 system for LTE trials with five Tier 1 mobile operators in Asia Pacific and North and South America.

The company has successfully completed extensive interoperability testing with LTE (News - Alert) components provided by its 4G partner and interoperability ecosystem including: the Mobility Management Entity, and Serving and Packet Data Network Gateways.According to company officials, Bridgewater is continuing to expand its partner and interoperability ecosystem to accelerate the industry's evolution to LTE. The company is participating in the MultiService Forum LTE Interoperability event in Germany in March which is supported by China Mobile, Vodafone (News - Alert), and Verizon 

The event will validate Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and Policy Control (PCRF) interfaces for multi-vendor deployment strategies and interworking with non-3GPP networks.

The Bridgewater EPC 500 is an integrated LTE system that provides subscriber and device data management, policy control, and interworking functions for the Evolved Packet Core.

It enables mobile operators to-implement smart subscriber, service, and policy controls to manage the complexities of exponential mobile data traffic growth, and millions of subscribers, devices, and applications; and Rapidly and cost-effectively launch LTE trials and early deployments up to 100,000 subscribers in days using a fully integrated and tested EPC system to support functions such as subscriber and service modeling, roaming, and quality of service management; and Easily migrate to large scale commercial deployments.

The EPC 500 can also support migration to separate HSS and PCRF platforms in order to meet large scale commercial deployment requirements."The ability to support a diverse mix of delay sensitive, rich media services alongside best effort Internet access is critical for operators seeking to attain attractive, blended, margins on all-IP LTE networks,” said Gabriel Brown, senior analyst with Heavy Reading, in a statement.