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Alvarion (News - Alert) Ltd. and Bridgewater Systems have announced they will be providing MSTelecom, of the Sonangal Group, with WiMAX solutions for their IP services deployments in Northern Angola.

This new project will be supporting MSTelcom’s services like national satellite coverage, broadband services, terrestrial links, Internet access, national and international connectivity or telephony besides radio tracking services.

Bridgewater will provide its AAA Service Controller as part of Alvarion’s OPEN (News - Alert) WiMAX architecture. This will enable MSTelcom to provide robust authentication and authorization for high speed Internet and VoIP WiMAX (News - Alert) services based on IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX technology.

MSTelcom will be able to offer last mile solutions for residential and SOHO markets, making the network highly efficient and in the future, a rural satellite based network for telephony connectivity can be built.

Angelo Gama, CTO of MSTelcom said in the press release, “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.”

Tyler Nelson, vice president of business development and marketing for Bridgewater Systems (News - Alert) remarked, “Market-leading operators are choosing best of breed solutions based on Alvarion’s OPEN WiMAX architecture.”

“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,” added Nelson.

Bridgewater Systems’ AAA Service Controller which is fully interoperable with Alvarion’s ACCESS Service Networks gateways (ASN-GW) enables service providers to control and manage access to services on a per-subscriber basis.

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