• Content providers have geographic restrictions on the distribution of copyrighted material (e.g. rights to distribute in a given country).
• Content providers deliver services via more than one service provider and some of them have geographic exclusivity (e.g. a service provider may have rights to distribute content in California and Washington but not Nevada).

• Distribution of content outside of territory could result in termination of availability or legal difficulties for the service provider.
• How do you limit availability of services and ensure those who are allowed access receive them in real time?

• Legal and copyright issues.
• Difficulty in acquiring and retaining content providers.
• Limited choices for subscribers can lead to churn.

The Bridgewater® Service Controller maintains up-to-date information on subscribers, including location information. When coupled with the Policy Controller, it can:

• Enable complex policy decisions based on content delivery provider requirements.
• Determine if a customer should be permitted to access content based on their location.
• Optionally, pass subscriber location information to content delivery providers to determine if the user is in the correct geographical area to receive the content.

• Subscriber in territory – allow geographically exclusive content, allow copyrighted material.
• Subscriber out of territory but in country – deny geographically exclusive content, allow copyrighted material.
• Subscriber out of country – deny geographically exclusive content; deny copyrighted material.

Increase revenues	Partner with cutting-edge providers to provide rich content to subscribers
Reduce operating expenses	Third-party services interface programming via SOAP-XML
Comply with contract/legal requirements	Information can be used to make policy decisions on behalf of the service provider

• Subscriber-aware data management: Powerful real-time information, such as subscriber location, allows service providers to provide a high level of customization for applications.
• SOAP-XML interface: Single provisioning API for all applications regardless of where they are hosted, decreases time to market and deployment costs.

Solution Components
The Bridgewater® Service Controller
The Bridgewater® Policy Controller (PCRF)