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Openwave?s Next Generation Service Management Solution Raises the Bar in Scaling to Match the Growing Demand for Mobile Data

^{Published on 2009-02-16 22:25:16, Last Modified on 2009-02-16 22:26:51 - Market Wire}
 

BARCELONA, Spain--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ Openwave Systems Inc ]. (Nasdaq:OPWV), one of the world's leading software innovators enabling revenue-generating personalized services which converge the mobile and broadband experience, today announced that [ Integra ], their next generation mobile internet service management solution, has reached a new benchmark in continuously striving to meet the world's growing demand for mobile internet services.

"[ Integra ] is helping our customers meet the growing capacity and service demands as the mobile internet evolves into a more sophisticated, full HTTP mobile broadband-like service," said Kathleen Brush, interim vice president of marketing, Openwave. "Today, with the help of [ Integra ] and its value-added services, Openwave is serving next generation mobile data services to over 250 million subscribers worldwide and is collectively handling in excess of 190 thousand transactions per second across its install base. We are very excited to have reached this volume. This is a fine indicator of the growth of the mobile internet and the role Openwave plays in supporting our customers to effectively manage this growth."

[ Integra ], along with the portfolio of value-added services it provides, is uniquely placed to handle the growth of Smartphone-related mobile internet traffic. Worldwide data suggests that Smartphone penetration is rapidly increasing. These devices are more data intensive, are used more frequently than feature phone devices and typically have twice as many transactions that are twice the size of transactions performed on feature phones. The [ Integra ] service management solution scales to meet this demand while ensuring that the operator's investment in network infrastructure to support the increased over the air data volumes is minimized. This is accomplished by applying appropriate optimization techniques, and without compromising the end user experience.

[ Openwave Integra ] builds on Openwave's unparalleled mobile access gateway expertise and market leadership that enables operators to manage, monitor and monetize the mobile internet. [ Integra's ] lightweight service intermediation is designed to deliver common services across multiple protocols in an increasingly demanding mobile data environment. The solution is designed to rapidly scale and deploy new mobile data services across networks and devices.

"[ Integra ] brings the capabilities of our mobile access gateway to the next level, providing open internet browsing capabilities that truly embrace the seamless Web 2.0 experience," said Brush. "We're pleased with the [ Integra ] deployments that we've had to date. Our customers are innovative operators worldwide who are embracing opportunities to improve the internet experience on mobile devices."

[ Openwave Integra ] provides network operators an evolutionary roadmap with innovative services and benefits including:

• Cost efficient evolutionary roadmaps from existing WAP gateways to next-generation data architecture.
• Rapid deployment of new services and ability to cost efficiently add capacity and new core proxies for new traffic, including open internet access, streaming and iPhone support.
• Common services framework for all protocols – WAP, HTTP, RTSP etc. with enhanced operations, administration and monitoring (OAM) capabilities across all traffic and services that enables ease of provisioning, maintenance, billing, analytics and operations.[ ]

  Integra

also gives operators the ability to expand the capabilities of their existing mobile gateway infrastructure with the option of driving new value-added services and monetization opportunities. These optional features include: [ Openwave OpenWeb ], a content reformatting solution; [ Openwave Passport ], a service that enables operators to tap into new revenue streams by offering on-demand mobile internet access to subscribers; [ Openwave OpenMedia ], an open, multimedia content adaptation service that converts rich media objects like MS Office documents and audio/video clips to a format suitable for mobile handsets; [ Openwave Mobile Analytics ], which characterizes & profiles mobile internet traffic, including subscriber access to URLs, the duration of website visits and how frequently subscribers are accessing social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter; and [ Openwave Mobile Advertising Solution ], a targeted content and advertising solution.

About Openwave

[ Openwave Systems Inc ]. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is one of the world's leading innovators of software applications and infrastructure designed to enable revenue-generating, personalized services, including mobile analytics, content adaptation, mobile and broadband advertising, and a suite of unified messaging solutions.

As the communications industry intersects with the Internet, Openwave software enables service providers to converge services, in an effort to increase the value of their networks by accelerating time to market and reducing the cost and complexity associated with new service deployment. Openwave's unique product portfolio provides a complete range of mobile internet service management, messaging, and location based solutions. Openwave is a global company with a blue chip customer base spanning North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Openwave is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit [ www.openwave.com ].

Openwave and the Openwave logo are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1943 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, the aforementioned focus on network-based offerings and the anticipated impact on Openwave's financial statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Notwithstanding changes that may occur with respect to matters relating to any forward looking statements, Openwave assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including, but not limited to, the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2008, December 30, 2008, and any subsequently filed reports. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at [ www.sec.gov ] or from Openwave's website at [ www.openwave.com ].