Bouygues Telecom selects Openwave to manage and optimize network traffic

FRANCE & REDWOOD CITY, USA: Openwave Systems Inc., one of the world’s leading software innovators offering a proactive mediation platform and tools to mobilize the Internet, has announced that Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator that is part of the Bouygues Group, has selected Openwave’s traffic management solution to manage and optimize its network traffic.

“As data demand continues to increase and bandwidth-intensive services gain in popularity but also in complexity, we needed a solution to dynamically manage our network traffic and provide us with a greater element of control and tuning,” said Thibaut Keraval, in charge of the Mobile Services Solutions in Bouygues Telecom.

“Openwave’s traffic management solution will help us to optimize the Smartphone traffic on our network and ultimately offer our subscribers more personalized service plans with flexible pricing.”

Openwave’s traffic management solution monitors and dynamically controls a diverse range of IP (TCP- and UDP-based) data flows within the Bouygues mobile network.

Openwave’s monitoring features will enable Bouygues Telecom to obtain better insights into network usage patterns and help them to define and anticipate new subscriber behaviours. Openwave’s traffic management solution will also allow Bouygues Telecom to offer a variety of tiered subscriber plans that reflect actual usage.

“The current growth of data consumption on mobile networks is unprecedented, and operators need an intelligent way to manage the influx of traffic,” said John Giere, senior vice president, products and marketing, Openwave. “Openwave’s in-network software solution combines a powerful workflow engine with a flexible policy management system, to enable Bouygues Telecom to manage its network more efficiently.”

With Openwave’s traffic management solution, Bouygues Telecom will be able to apply a policy for each subscriber initiated IP session including:

* Access control based on destination IP and port of content or application being request.
* Access control based on subscriber plan/level of service.
* Source/destination network address translation (NAT).
* Monitoring of predefined time and volume session limits.

The Openwave traffic management solution will also allow information to be logged on each IP session to enable “hot-billing” based on duration and volume consumed, giving Bouygues Telecom the capability to control network resources that bind service tiers to real-time parameters, and provides a framework for even more sophisticated and proactive all IP policy management going forward.