Verizon Wireless Selects Camiant for PCRF (so what happened to Bridgewater?)

Camiant announced today that "Verizon Wireless has selected Camiant’s Multimedia Policy Engine (MPE) as the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) for Verizon Wireless’ previously announced nationwide deployment of a 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network" (here). The title of the release says "deploys", the content says "selected" and "Camiant will ...". So probably it is not yet deployed.

My immediate thought went to Bridgewater Systems. Less than a month ago Bridgewater said in its financial results report for fiscal 2009 "Bridgewater expanded business with Verizon Wireless for its WideSpan® integrated system, including subscriber data management and service control." (here).

Does the strange press release from yesterday - "Bridgewater Systems Comments on Trading Activity" (here) - has something to do with this ?

Verizon wireless is a huge operator - it is common for carriers of this size to use multiple sources for certain products and technologies. However using two sources for policy management is not common - as this is a central management element, which requires lots of customization and integration with other elements (GGSN, DPI) in order to perform the operator-specific functions and processes. LTE is only starting – so doing everything twice for small deployments also does not make sense.