By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor
Vodacom, South Africa’s mobile operator has selected Openwave Integra Service Management Platform, a next generation traffic mediation and policy management solution designed to allow Vodacom (News – Alert) to effectively manage, monitor and monetize mobile traffic.
Officials with Openwave (News – Alert) said that the company’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 (News – Alert). “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, in a statement. Engelbrecht said that the company’s relationship with Openwave is helping it build momentum in the mobile space to deliver a superior, unrivaled mobile Internet experience to the 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. Park said that the company believes 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 Systems (News – Alert) Inc. is a global software player delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers and the broader ecosystem to create and deliver smarter services. Recently Openwave Systems announced a joint collaboration with DESCA, a regional Latin American networking company focused on delivering best-practice-based infrastructure and telecommunications solutions and services to companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the terms of the agreement, DESCA will manage fulfillment of the Openwave products and provide integration services and professional services to operators in the CaLA region. The solutions are expected to consist of Openwave’s context-aware mediation solutions for the mobile internet, with advanced professional services from DESCA. The integrated solution is designed to help operators in CaLA to monitor, manage and monetize the mobile internet while reaching a new customer base.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
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