Bridgewater Showcases Industry Leading LTE Control Plane Interoperability at Global MultiService Forum Event

Bridgewater Showcases Industry Leading LTE Control Plane Interoperability at Global MultiService Forum Event

OTTAWA, March 15, 2010--

    - Interoperability testing of Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server and
Policy Controller underway with LTE ecosystem partners

    Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today
announced its participation in the Global MultiService Forum (MSF)
interoperability testing event over the next two weeks at Vodafone's Centre
for Test and Innovation in Düsseldorf and the China Mobile Research
Institute Lab in Beijing. The testing focuses on validating Evolved Packet
Core network interfaces to enable multi-vendor deployment strategies for
LTE technology.

   
    News

    -  The MSF event, a global first to focus on multi-vendor, multi-operator
       interoperability spanning multiple sites, promotes and fosters
       compatibility and interoperability with leading network equipment
       vendors and operators including Vodafone, China Mobile, NEC, Starent
       Networks now part of Cisco, Huawei, ZTE, Alcatel Lucent, Agilent and
       Codenomicon. The event is an important step towards validating MSF
       architectural framework release 5 for LTE, developed to incorporate
       3GPP System Architecture Evolution.
    -  Among the products undergoing interoperability testing at the event
       are the standards-based Bridgewater(R) Home Subscriber Server for HSS
       1.0 (S6a interface), the Bridgewater(R) Policy Controller for PCRF 4.0
       (Gx, Gxc interfaces), and the Bridgewater(R) 3GPP AAA Interworking
       Module for 3GPP AAA 8.3 (S6b, STa interfaces).
    -  Participation underscores Bridgewater's leading role as the only LTE
       control plane specialist at the event. The company also recently
       announced a multimillion dollar LTE win at MetroPCS as well as LTE
       trials with five Tier 1 mobile operators in Asia Pacific and North and
       South America.

    Quotes

    David Sharpley, Senior Vice President, Bridgewater Systems

    "Bridgewater's commitment to the broadest set of LTE control plane
interoperability with major equipment vendors ensures that operators can
adopt a multi-vendor, multi-access approach. Our unique
'control-plane-in-a-box' approach which combines the Bridgewater Home
Subscriber Server, Policy Controller and Inter-working capabilities allows
operators to rapidly and cost-effectively trial, launch, and scale
LTE deployments."

    David Francisco, MultiService Forum Board Member

    "Operators such as China Mobile and Vodafone require extensive
interoperability between vendors to accelerate the evolution towards LTE. The
Global MSF Interoperability event in Düsseldorf and Beijing represents an
important landmark in the standards-based evolution to LTE, especially in the
evolved packet core."

    Tags/Keywords

    Bridgewater Systems, LTE, MultiService Forum, Interoperability, China
Mobile, Vodafone, NEC, Cisco, Policy Control, Home Subscriber Server, AAA

   
    Links

    http://www.bridgewatersystems.com/LTE.aspx
    http://www.bridgewatersystems.com/EPC-500.aspx
    http://www.bridgewatersystems.com/Policy-Controller.aspx
    http://www.bridgewatersystems.com/Home-Subscriber-Server.aspx

    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 information, visit us at http://www.bridgewatersystems.com.

    About the MSF

    The MultiService Forum (MSF) is a global association of service
providers, system suppliers and test equipment vendors committed to
developing and promoting open-architecture, multiservice Next Generation
Networks. Founded in 1998, the MSF is an open-membership organization
comprised of the world's leading telecommunications companies. The MSF's
activities include developing Implementation Agreements, promoting worldwide
compatibility and interoperability of network elements, and encouraging
input to appropriate national and international standards bodies.
http://www.msforum.org

    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.

    For further information: Ed Barker, Bridgewater Systems,
edward.barker@bridgewatersystems.com, +44(0)7939-492-656; Joanne
Steinberg, Bridgewater Systems, joanne.steinberg@bridgewatersystems.com,
+1-613-884-8831

Source: Bridgewater Systems

For further information: Ed Barker, Bridgewater Systems, edward.barker@bridgewatersystems.com, +44(0)7939-492-656; Joanne Steinberg, Bridgewater Systems, joanne.steinberg@bridgewatersystems.com, +1-613-884-8831