Aptilo Networks

www.aptilo.com
Arenavägen 47
Block 2, 7th Floor
S-121 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Americas:
+1 972 767 6901
Europe/Africa:
+46 8 5089 8900
Asia/Middle East:
+60 3 2332 0130
info@aptilo.com

Company Background

Aptilo Networks is the leading vendor of integrated service management and access control solutions for service providers, enterprises and municipalities needing a rapidly deployable, scalable multiservice solution to easily manage data and voice services over WiMAX™, metro wireless, Wi-Fi and fixed networks. Aptilo’s service management platforms control billing, user services and access in these networks, which are currently deployed worldwide in more than 40 countries.

Aptilo’s WiMAX Products & Solutions

By leveraging Aptilo’s solid experience in the Wi-Fi and wireless mesh markets into the WiMAX arena, Aptilo offers a proven, multi-access (Wi-Fi / WiMAX) and cost-effective platform that can grow with the needs of our customers. The Aptilo’s WiMAX CSN System consists of the Aptilo Service Management Platform integrated with add-on modules for the specific WiMAX features. It can thus by default be used for networks using both WiMAX and Wi-Fi access. The system delivers a highly flexible and versatile authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA), policy management and service control solution for Mobile WiMAX and Wi-Fi network services, with support for pre- and post-paid data and Voice over IP (VoIP) services. The integrated data and voice services solution provides authentication, authorization and accounting through multiple authentication types and enforces QoS and service flow profile parameters for users, devices and services. Intelligent AAA Proxy functionality in the Aptilo WiMAX CSN System allows service providers to manage interactions with multiple external AAA servers and roaming partners while a large multitude of service offerings and combinations of time-, volume- and price-based subscriber accounts cover required business models. The Aptilo WiMAX CSN System is fully interoperable with WiMAX-compliant clients and Access Service Network (ASN) nodes such as WiMAX 802.16-2005 based Base Stations and ASN Gateways through standards interfaces defined by The WiMAX Forum®.

Aptilo is proud to be one of the first vendors with full support for pre-integrated NWG pre-paid and hotlining. Aptilo’s growing list of interoperable vendors through customer implementations and partner testing includes ADC, Airspan, Alvarion, Aperto, Aricent, Cisco, Harris Stratex, Motorola, Nortel, Redline, Starent, WiChorus and WiNetworks. (as of April 2009).

Save time and money with an integrated WiMAX CSN solution:

Aptilo offers a unique, yet simple approach to challenges faced by many WiMAX Operators. We have integrated most of the different subsystems functions needed into our own product, the Aptilo WiMAX CSN System.

Dedicated subsystems are frequently underutilized from a functionality perspective. Many operators just make use of a fraction of the total functionality. Aptilo is second to none when it comes to critical core functions such as AAA, policy management and end-to-end pre-paid billing and we have developed sufficient functionality for the other subsystems. The Aptilo system also features a built-in user database. Our optional AC-network node can be deployed for traffic management including intelligent IP-address allocation, DHCP, policy based routing, VLAN and bandwidth shaping.

Furthermore, Aptilo’s WiMAX AAA core is not like any other generic Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) solution. It is a purpose-built solid system for control of access, user services and billing in WiMAX networks. That is why we call it Aptilo WiMAX AAA+.

Deploying several subsystems from different vendors and getting them ready for launch is a complex and costly process, especially if something does not work as intended. With an integrated, ready to deploy solution there is no custom integration required at all for products from different vendors, as the different subsystem functions - all included in the integrated solution - are designed to work seamlessly together. Maintenance may not be the first thing considered when launching a new WiMAX service. In the long run, however, this might be the most important issue when it comes to OPEX (operating expenditures) for the service. Having several subsystem-vendors releasing new software versions at different times puts a great deal of pressure on the operation of the service.

The stability of the service may even be compromised due to sudden problems between subsystems not detected during the testing. Aptilo’s WiMAX CSN System provides a more stable operation as the different subsystems are designed to work together and are well tested before release. The Aptilo WiMAX CSN System is an open system, which means that the operator is free to integrate with a dedicated subsystem when desired. The integration via Aptilo’s well defined APIs and native interfaces give the operator the flexibility to make the integration in an easy and modular way throughout the lifecycle of the service.

Bridgewater Systems, Inc.

www.bridgewatersystems.com
303 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 500
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2K 3JI
+1.613.591.6655
marketing@bridgewatersystems.com

Company Background

Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, enables service providers to efficiently manage and profit from mobile data services, content and commerce. The company’s market leading mobile personalization portfolio provides a real-time, unified view of subscribers including entitlements, devices, networks, billing profiles, preferences and context. Anchored by Bridgewater’s Subscriber Data Broker™, the portfolio of carrier-grade and standards-based products includes the Bridgewater® Service Controller (AAA), the Bridgewater® Policy Controller (PCRF) and the Bridgewater® Home Subscriber Server (HSS). More than 120 leading service providers use Bridgewater’s solutions to rapidly deliver innovative mobile services to over 150 million subscribers.

Bridgewater’s WiMAX Products & Solutions

Over 25 of the world’s leading WiMAX operators have chosen Bridgewater to be a key part of their WiMAX Connectivity Service Network (CSN). As a Principal Member of the WiMAX Forum, Bridgewater is lead contributor to current and upcoming AAA and policy standards and architectures for WiMAX networks. Vendor neutral and featuring extensive multi-vendor interoperability, Bridgewater offers a comprehensive solutions suite that helps WiMAX operators accelerate commercial launch and introduce new personalized services.

The industry’s leading Service Controller (AAA) features extensive support for fixed and mobile WiMAX, including:

Authentication - User and device level authentication with full EAP support.
Authorization – Fully profile and policy based for flexible control.
Accounting - Supports session and flow-based accounting for differentiated charging, as well as support for pre-paid and post-paid.
RADIUS/Diameter - Dual protocol stack ensures multi-vendor, multi-network compatibility.
Mobile IP – Roaming features such as RADIUS AAA proxy and Mobile IP key derivation.
Hotlining – Redirect subscribers to prevent revenue leakage.

Lawful intercept – Unique support in WiMAX to enable compliance with law enforcement and telecoms regulations.

Pre-paid support – Supports multiple prepaid billing models including standards-based and pre-standards implementations. Helps accelerate subscriber acquisition.

Accounting mediation – Reduces the load on backend billing systems and the need for custom mediation. Correlates, aggregates, filters, formats, and streams accounting records to billing system.

Subscriber data management – Subscriber Data Broker enables creation of advanced new services and revenue models – such as location based services (LBS), mobile advertising, and personalized promotions – by leveraging rich set of static, dynamic and usage data on a per subscriber basis. Allows service providers to easily manage subscribers and services to accelerate commercial WiMAX launch.

Service model innovation – Policy Controller provides dynamic network and application policy control to enable advanced service models including casual (non-subscription) user services and over-the-air provisioning device and subscriber provisioning to accelerate service introduction.

Bridgewater’s solutions stand at the leading edge of subscriber management. Please visit www.bridgewatersystems.com to see how we can help you get more from your network and your subscribers.

CommuniGate Systems

www.communigate.com
655 Redwood Hwy, Suite 275
Mill Valley, CA 94941 USA
+1.415.383.7164
sales@communigate.com

Company Background

Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems develops carrier-class Unified Communications and media delivery software for broadband and mobile operators to deliver value-added services and SaaS solutions.

Communigate’s WiMAX Products & Solutions

Mobile Office from CommuniGate Systems is a fixed mobile convergence solution that provides a suite of Unified Communications applications available for delivery in a SaaS model. It allows Mobile Operators to offer Value Added Services (VAS) to their small and medium business subscribers. Mobile Office delivers push communications on the mobile and a Flash UI on the desktop, tying SME subscribers to the Mobile Operators’ brand. It increases ARPU by driving WiMAX data services, encouraging the purchase of add-on features, and substantially reducing subscriber churn rates.

Mobile Office includes a full suite of virtual applications such as push e-mail, push calendar, push contacts, push e-mail, shared folders, shared calendars, a global address book and the Flash-based Web 2.0 client Pronto!. Mobile Office works any time at any place via push technology when the handset is connected to an IP network. It supports the largest variety of handsets including the iPhone, Nokia and WinMobile devices. Subscribers can use any PC, Mac or Linux computer to access services via the Flash-based user interface Pronto!. Mobile Operators can upgrade SME subscribers by offering other products including website hosting, backup services, storage services, archival services, and compliance services.

Mobile Office is built upon the CommuniGate Pro Unified Communications platform. CommuniGate Pro is the most reliable and efficient SaaS delivery platform. It delivers virtualization of domains with a modular feature set, powerful class of service provisioning, and a live rolling updates change management capability not found in other solutions. The platform’s exclusive Dynamic Clustering architecture provides 99.999% uptime in a multi-tenant architecture with no single point of failure and allows SaaS providers to add frontend or backend nodes as needed without any downtime or service interruption. CommuniGate Pro makes it easy for service providers and operators to offer business class services with costs that decline as virtualized client volume increases. CommuniGate Pro is the only truly integrated UC platform that was built to power all forms of IP communications in one integrated platform.

Green Packet Berhad

www.greenpacket.com
Packet Hub,
159, Jalan Templer,
46050 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia
+1 781-328-4400
marketing.gp@greenpacket.com

Company Background

Green Packet Solutions, part of the Green Packet Berhad group of companies, is a leading developer of Next Generation Mobile Broadband and Networking Solutions. Our mission is to provide seamless and unified platforms for the delivery of user-centric multimedia communications services regardless of the nature and availability of backbone infrastructures. Founded in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley in 2000, Green Packet Solutions has expanded its global footprint to Kuala Lumpur (Headquarters), Singapore, Shanghai, Taiwan, Australia, Bahrain and Bangkok.

Green Packet Solutions empowers Operators to improve ARPU via leading edge carrier-grade connectivity solutions and interoperability-tested WiMAX Modems. Green Packet Solutions’ products offer best-in-class performance and are of the highest quality, ensuring our customers are ALWAYS BEST CONNECTED!

With R&D centres located in USA, Shanghai, and Taiwan, we are on the edge of new developments in 4G (particularly WiMAX and LTE), as well as software advancement. Green Packet Solutions’ presence around the world shouts our global capabilities and localization abilities. Furthermore, fellow symbiotic players can leverage on Green Packet Solutions’ strategic alliances in the telecommunications industry to strengthen one’s stake in the ecosystem.

Green Packet’s WiMAX Products & Solutions

Intouch Connection Management Platform

Intouch Connection Management Platform (ICMP) is an easy to use, single-client solution that intelligently manages access network connections you offer (for example WiFi, WiMAX or 3G).

Simple & Unified Network Access

ICMP is designed to converge connection management, communication services and entertainment within a single client. In other words, subscribers gain connectivity convenience with single sign-on to a host of lifestyle-based value-added services, as well as a rich spread of applications and services, all via one user-friendly and trendy interface. Operators can monetize the value-added services to gain additional revenue on top of access network fees.

Connectivity On The Go

It includes the Seamless Mobility feature that enables users to automatically switch from one network to another, without any interruption to their connectivity or application usage. In other words, a user need not worry which network to connect to; instead based on the current location, he will be automatically connected to best available network. This gives users the advantage of wireless broadband unification and whilst addressing Operators’ need for network convergence.

Optimize Usage of Existing Infrastructure

Aside from this, the ICMP is perfect for Operators offering multiple access networks as it enables the maximized use of existing infrastructure. Traffic from a congested network, for example, WiFi can be easily offloaded to the next available network, say WiMAX - thus creating a balance in bandwidth utilization.