Openwave Systems (Nasdaq: OPWV), a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions, today announced that Vodacom, South Africa's leading mobile operator, has selected Openwave Integra Service Management Platform (SMP), a next-generation traffic mediation and policy management solution designed to allow Vodacom to effectively manage, monitor and monetise mobile traffic.
Integra is currently scheduled to be in production to support the anticipated increase in mobile Internet traffic from the 2010 FIFA World Cup international football tournament that begins today.
Openwave's highly scalable, carrier-grade Integra system will be deployed in a multi-region topology enabling geographic distribution and redundancy and supporting in excess of a 3X increase in traffic on its predecessor, the Openwave Mobile Access Gateway.
“Achieving an improved user experience with superior response times and low latency for our mobile data services were our key objectives for this deployment,” said Johan Engelbrecht, managing executive, network management, Vodacom South Africa. “Our relationship with Openwave is helping us build momentum in the mobile space to deliver a superior, unrivalled mobile Internet experience to our subscribers.”
“Vodacom South Africa's selection of Integra is a great example of an operator proactively taking measures to address unprecedented subscriber data consumption patterns,” said Alan Park, senior vice-president of Worldwide Sales, Openwave. “We believe that the deployment of Openwave's architecture will enable Vodacom, the leading operator in South Africa, to easily deploy plug-ins and offer their subscribers the latest in innovative, leading-edge data services.”
Openwave Integra provides network operators an evolutionary roadmap with innovative services and benefits focused on:
* Reduction of TCO through a single point of policy control and management for mobile data services.
* Scaling capabilities to support 3G and 4G service deployments.
* Cost efficient evolutionary roadmaps from existing WAP gateways to next-generation data architecture.
* Seamless backward compatibility with WAP infrastructure.
* Supporting highly differentiated services across a number of service protocols (HTTP, HTML, RTSP/RTP/RDT).
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