Bridgewater Systems has announced its participation in the Global MultiService Forum (MSF) interoperability testing event over the next two weeks at Vodafones Centre for Test and Innovation in Dsseldorf and the China Mobile Research Institute Lab in Beijing. The testing focuses on validating Evolved Packet Core network interfaces to enable multi-vendor deployment strategies for LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology.
The MSF event, a global first to focus on multi-vendor, multi-operator interoperability spanning multiple sites, promotes and fosters compatibility and interoperability with leading network equipment vendors and operators, including Vodafone, China Mobile, NEC, Starent Networks, Huawei, ZTE, Alcatel Lucent, Agilent and Codenomicon. The event is an important step towards validating MSF architectural framework release 5 for LTE, developed to incorporate 3GPP System Architecture Evolution.
Among the products undergoing interoperability testing at the event are the standards-based Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server for HSS 1.0 (S6a interface), the Bridgewater Policy Controller for PCRF 4.0 (Gx, Gxc interfaces), and the Bridgewater 3GPP AAA Interworking Module for 3GPP AAA 8.3 (S6b, STa interfaces).
Bridgewater recently announced a multi-million dollar LTE win at MetroPCS, as well as LTE trials with five Tier 1 mobile operators in Asia Pacific and North and South America. 
