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Bridgewater Service Controller in Convergent Networks

To meet the demands of exponential mobile data traffic growth, service providers are leveraging multiple access network technologies, an approach that fundamentally changes the economics of delivering mobile data-intensive services by balancing the various traffic requirements across multiple access networks simultaneously. Other drivers include technology consolidation, 4G overlay, and extended roaming coverage across multiple networks.

Bridgewater® Service Controller offers a rich pedigree in multi-access support. With a flexible offering that enables migration to 4G, the Service Controller provides industry-leading support for key service control functions such as authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) for operators deploying a multi-network strategy.

Including support for 3GPP, non-3GPP, fixed, and Wi-Fi scenarios, the Service Controller ensures a transparent access experience as subscribers move between different network types.

Features and Benefits for Convergent Operators

  • Multiprotocol Support: Support for both RADIUS and Diameter is important for simultaneous 3G and 4G support, providing flexible support for interworking scenarios.
  • Common AAA Platform Eliminates Authentication Silos: Service control products that provide for a consistent subscriber database across multiple networks are essential to reducing overall provisioning costs and eliminate multiple silos.
  • Interworking: Support for non-3GPP interworking and HLR interworking.
  • Extensive Multi-vendor Interoperability: Service providers operating multiple access networks require support for simultaneous interoperability with multiple vendors. Technology streams may differ between 3G and 4G networks. Service Controller provides the most extensive 3GPP and non-3GPP interoperability.
  • Broad Standards Support: Multi-access requires standards-based interfaces from key standards organizations and industry bodies including the WiMAX Forum, 3GPP2, 3GPP, MSF and ETSI.
  • Common Subscriber Management Capability: Provides the ability to model devices and subscriber entitlements that manage authentication and authorization for individuals, groups of subscribers, and equipment, such as femtocells or machine-to-machine (M2M) devices; e.g. smart meters, across multiple networks.

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