Bridgewater Systems said that Taiwan-based 4G operator Global Mobile is deploying its Service Controller and Policy Controller to deliver mobile multimedia services to consumers and enterprises. The offerings are being delivered in collaboration with CommVerge Solutions, a network services company in the Asia Pacific region.
Global Mobile is deploying Bridgewater’s WiMAX offerings in the northern region of Taiwan to deliver services such as mobile internet, mobile TV, interactive media services, digital audio, and mobile advertising. The company plans to launch commercial services in the Hsinchu area before the end of 2009, and extend coverage to the Taipei area in 2010, the company said.
According to Bridgewater, its WiMAX offerings will enable Global Mobile to: launch services through over-the-air provisioning of subscribers, devices, and on-demand service models; and offer personalised services including casual usage based on time or volume such as day passes for a new application, prepaid services, and applications.
The company said that its Service Controller authorises and authenticates subscribers and provides critical accounting functions. It is compliant with the WiMAX Network Working Group Stage 3 specification. The Policy Controller is a policy decision function that provides real-time network, application and subscriber policies to personalise services and manage mobile data growth.
In addition, the Subscriber Data Broker is a subscriber data management product that unifies subscriber information including service entitlements, devices, networks, billing profiles, preferences and context, and provides the tools to broker this data to systems and applications.
Rosemary Ho, chairman of Global Mobile, said: Our goal is to deliver ‘anytime, anywhere, and any device’ applications and services to our customers. We selected Bridgewater’s market leading service and policy control products including over-the-air provisioning because they are enabling us to rapidly commercialising new 4G services and meet our time-to-market goals.
