Mobile Personalization

Bridgewater Systems, the mobile personalization company and provider of countless mobile solutions has a lot to be proud of looking back on its accomplishments in 2010.

In February 2010, Bridgewater Systems joined TMCnet’s channel program with the sponsorship of its Mobile Personalization channel.

That same month, Bridgewater announced that the Bridgewater EPC 500, an integrated LTE (News - Alert) system has gained significant market traction with partners and five major operators globally.  Bridgewater EPC 500 is a trial-ready “control-plane-in-a-box” system for the LTE evolved packet core, and is pre-integrated on a hardware platform and fully compliant with 3GPP Release 8 standards.

Bridgewater was named the top 2009 policy server market leader by Infonetics (News - Alert) Research in its April 2010 report “Policy Servers Biannual Worldwide and Regional Market Size, Share and Forecasts.” In the report, Infonetics researchers said service providers are increasingly implementing policy controls to optimize 3G networks and offload mobile data traffic.

In May of this year, the mobile personalization company opened a new 'Center of Excellence' in collaboration with Wesley Clover (News - Alert) in Gurgaon, near Delhi, India. The Center of Excellence will serve as the hub for the Asia Pacific region in three key areas: Mobile data technology development for Bridgewater's intelligent control products; sales and customer support; and professional services.

In June, Bridgewater announced that it joined the Cisco Developer Network as a preferred solution developer within the mobile packet core technology category as well as the availability of the Bridgewater Policy Controller and Home Subscriber Server on the Cisco Unified Computing System.

In October, the mobile personalization company announcedthat Russian wireless broadband Internet provider Yota had selected Bridgewater Service Controller to support the rollout of that company’s national Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access or “WiMAX (News - Alert) service in Nicaragua.

More recently, Bridgewater Systems signed a new four-year agreement with Verizon (News - Alert) Wireless. Under their contract, Bridgewater will provide products and services for Verizon Wireless’ network expansion. The agreement between the two companies was valued at approximately $56 million.

2010 proved to be a successful year for Bridgewater Systems.  Stay tuned to the company’s Mobile Personalization channel exclusively on TMCnet to see what’s in store for Bridgewater in 2011.

Stefanie Mosca is a Web editor for TMCnet. Previously she worked as a freelance copy editor for Digital Surgeons LLC. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University and a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of New Haven. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Stefanie Mosca