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Alvarion Ltd. and Bridgewater Systems announced they are providing MSTelcom, of Sonangol Group, with advanced WiMAX solutions to support IP services to be offered in key locations throughout Northern Angola. This deployment project is planned to support MSTelcom’s current services that include national satellite coverage, broadband services, terrestrial links, Internet access, national and international connectivity (telephony), and radio tracking systems.

Bridgewater’s proven AAA Service Controller is provided as part of Alvarion’s OPEN WiMAX architecture, enabling MSTelcom to provide robust authentication and authorization for high speed Internet and VoIP WiMAX services based on IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX technology. The new network enables MSTelcom to optimize services used as the preferred last mile solution for residential and SOHO markets. In addition, they can maintain continuous technological evolution and enforce the building of a rural satellite-based network for telephony connectivity.

Mr. Angelo Gama, CTO of MSTelcom commented about the deployment project: “With a wide range of offered services and growing customer base, we need a reliable and cost effective solution. Bridgewater’s powerful AAA Service Controller together with Alvarion’s unique Mobile WiMAX technology, provides a winning combination for enabling us to offer broadband wireless to our customers, while optimizing our current and future services.”

“Market-leading operators are choosing best of breed solutions based on Alvarion’s OPEN WiMAX architecture,” said Tyler Nelson, vice president of business development and marketing for Bridgewater Systems. “As a partner in Alvarion’s ecosystem, Bridgewater provides the industry’s most robust and advanced AAA solution, proven in the most demanding service provider environments and compliant with relevant WiMAX Forum™ standards for Mobile WiMAX. This makes it the right choice for progressive WiMAX operators such as MSTelcom.”

"We are pleased to present MSTelcom with this advanced WiMAX service offering together with our partner Bridgewater Systems,” said Rudy Leser, corporate vice president strategy and marketing of Alvarion Ltd. “This win serves as another proof point to the advantage of our best of breed OPEN WiMAX ecosystem of partners. We look forward to future possibilities of accelerating WiMAX with Bridgewater Systems and offering future mobile services as well."

Fully interoperable with Alvarion’s Access Service Network gateways (ASN-GW), the Bridgewater Systems AAA Service Controller is a proven carrier-grade authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) solution. It features a powerful policy and profile engine to allow service providers to control and manage access to advanced and differentiated services on a per-subscriber basis. Compliant with the WiMAX Forum’s NWG Stage 3 Release 1.0.0 specification, the AAA Service Controller provides extensive support for Mobile WiMAX often not available in legacy AAA servers, such as support for multiple EAP methods, dual RADIUS/Diameter protocol support, device and subscriber authentication, as well as mobile IP support.