March 25, 2010 – Bridgewater Systems today announced that the company has been recognized as the 2009 policy server market leader by Infonetics Research in its April 2010 report “Policy Servers Bia
March 25, 2010 – Bridgewater Systems today announced that the company has been recognized as the 2009 policy server market leader by Infonetics Research in its April 2010 report “Policy Servers Biannual Worldwide and Regional Market Size, Share, and Forecasts.”
The Infonetics report noted that Bridgewater’s position as the # 1 market share leader in both the overall and mobile policy server market is due to the company’s success in 3G and 4G networks. The report further states that the mobile policy server market will continue to grow rapidly over the next five years as the market shifts from fixed to mobile deployments, reaching US$1.2 billion in 2014.
Service providers are increasingly implementing policy controls to:
- Optimize 3G networks using intelligent policy controls to alleviate radio access network congestion, ensure fair usage, and give subscribers greater control over their mobile data usage;
- Offload mobile data traffic from congested 3G networks to Wi-Fi, femtocells, or 4G networks;
- Transform to 4G and control subscribers, devices, and applications to ensure service portability across 3G and 4G networks; Deliver innovative services such as usage and application based models using flexible policy controls, real-time subscriber
- information, and dynamic metering capabilities.
The Bridgewater(R) Policy Controller, which supports 3GPP PCRF Release 7, 8 and 9 standards on the same platform, provides real-time network, application, and subscriber policies to manage mobile data growth and deliver personalized services.
“Bridgewater continues to grow its wireless business, expanding its 3G deployments in 2009 and staking its claim in the emerging WiMAX and LTE market opportunities. Its close integration of policy and subscriber data management on a single platform creates a compelling proposition for operators looking to implement subscriber-aware policy control capabilities.” said Shira Levine, Directing Analyst, Next Gen OSS and Policy, Infonetics Research.