Sprint and Bridgewater Partner for WiMAX Network

Bridgewater Systems was selected today as the WiMAX network access control vendor for Sprint’s new nationwide XOHM WiMAX Network. This afetr the cancelled deal with Clearwire last year to build a joint WiMAX Network. Bridgewater is a supplier of Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) services to Sprint’s existing CDMA 3G network and will now extend its solution to support their XOHM WiMAX network as well.

Through the capabilities of the Bridgewater WiMAX Network solution, Sprint can provide WiMAX network access control and support open WiMAX network access services such as over the air provisioning of devices, subscribers and on-demand service models, and lawful intercept services.

Bridgewater WiMAX Network Services

Douglas Smith, chief technical operations officer at Sprint Nextel said that Bridgewater has the ability to extend the existing platform to meet their current and planned needs for a WiMAX network while servicing their CDMA network.

Within Sprint, Bridgewater will provide concurrent support for 3G and 4G networks from a common infrastructure as Sprint begins to commercially deploy the XOHM WiMAX network in 2008.

Bridgewater has been selected by nine WiMAX network service providers. The Bridgewater Systems AAA Service Controller provides extensive mobile WiMAX network support often not supported on legacy AAA servers such as device authentication and mobile IP. With a common policy and subscriber profile repository that serves all access networks, service providers can create a unified view of subscribers, and realize operational efficiencies by eliminating the need to re-provision subscribers as new access technologies such as WiMAX networks are introduced.

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