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Bridgewater Expands 4G Partner and Interoperability Ecosystem

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  Published in Science and Technology on Monday, September 14th 2009 at 5:12 GMT by Market Wire
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 - Bridgewater is continuing to expand its partner and interoperability ecosystem to accelerate and facilitate the industry's evolution to 4G, build best-of-breed multi-vendor and multi-access solutions, and enable service providers to deliver a superior, personalized 4G subscriber experience. - Bridgewater's goals are to: - Give service providers unparalleled network deployment flexibility; - Deliver the industry's most comprehensive set of 4G control plane solutions; and - Provide the broadest multi-vendor industry support and interoperability. - The company's proven portfolio of subscriber data management, service and policy control products work across any network access technology and are designed to enable the transformation to 4G. - Bridgewater's open and standards-based 4G ecosystem includes the following leading networking solution providers, technology providers, and channel partners: Starent Networks (NASDAQ: STAR), Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), NEC (TSE: 6701), Hitachi (NYSE:HIT, TSE: 6501), Samsung (KSE: 005390), Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks (NYSE: NOK), WiChorus, and Verint. - Global LTE trials with major service providers are in the planning and implementation stages. Interoperability testing is also underway with several LTE solution providers. For example, Hitachi and Bridgewater are working together in an LTE trial in Asia. The Bridgewater(R) Home Subscriber Server is being integrated with Hitachi's Evolved Packet Core solution including the MME, the Policy and Charging Rules Function, and the Serving and Packet Data Network gateways as well as professional services. Lab and interoperability testing is currently underway. - Bridgewater has over 35 WiMAX deployments globally including 4 new deployments announced today and has completed interoperability testing with major solution providers.