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Telstra Selects Openwave?s Next Gen Service Management Solution

^{Published on 2009-02-16 22:28:29, Last Modified on 2009-02-16 22:29:10 - 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, has announced that Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications and services company, has selected [ Openwave Integra ], next generation mobile internet service management solution designed to provide open, secure multimedia and multi-protocol service management support.

[ Openwave Integra ] offers Telstra a range of benefits, including the ability to rapidly scale to meet changing customer needs, as well as support new protocols, content types and applications.

[ Openwave Integra ] builds on Openwave's unparalleled mobile access gateway expertise and market leadership, enabling revenue-generating content access as part of a personalized content and communications experience. [ Openwave Integra ]'s lightweight service intermediation is designed to support multiple protocols, including increasingly http-based traffic. [ Integra ] supports advanced protocols quickly and without the need for costly and time-consuming integration.

"A consumer's ability to access and discover content and services in a fast, secure and easy-to-use manner is critical," said Kathleen Brush, interim vice president of marketing, Openwave. "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. We're pleased to work with innovative operators like Telstra, who are embracing opportunities to improve the Internet experience on the mobile device."

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

• Cost efficient evolutionary roadmap from WAP gateway to next-generation data architecture, enabling Telstra to leverage its investment in Openwave's Mobile Access Gateway for WAP support
• Rapid deployment of new services and ability to cost efficiently add capacity and new core proxies for new traffic, including open internet access and RTSP support
• Common services framework for all protocols – WAP, HTTP, RTSP etc. with enhanced operations, administration and monitoring (OAM) capabilities across all traffics and services that enables ease of provisioning, maintenance, billing, analytics and operations.

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