[Update21 - Sandvine Bridgewater Announcement] PCRF - DPI Compatibility Matrix

 

The compatibility table already had indicted interoperability between Sandvine and Bridgewater, but today the two vendors will issue a joint press release announcing "that the two companies have successfully completed integration and interoperability testing enabling intelligent policy control solutions for 3G and 4G mobile operators".

See "Bridgewater and Sandvine Partner for Policy Control Solutions" - here. The release is very similar to many other we saw, describing the benefits of the interoperability between Sandvine's PTS DPI device and Bridgewater's PCRF.

In 2005 the two had a similar press release (here). Back then, Sandvine was focusing (over 90% of its business) on the cable market, the term PCRF was not used and mobile operators were not considered as a market for broadband traffic management.

5 years later, the DPI landscape is very different - as we can see from the new release "The interoperability testing showcases the two companies' commitment to delivering 3G and 4G policy control solutions that are standards compliant and address next generation services requirements for mobile operators" and from David Sharpley,  Bridgewater Systems' Sr. Vice President, Marketing and Product Management quote:

"Bridgewater and Sandvine have successfully worked together in a major 4G operator deployment and we are now expanding this relationship to include integrated policy solutions."

PCRF Vendor	PCRF Product	Allot	Arbor	Cisco	Procera	Sandvine
Alcatel-Lucent	5780 Dynamic Services Controller (DSC)
Aradial Technologies	Aradial Mobile/APC	●		●
BandWD	BwDRC - Dynamic Resource Control	●		●		●
Bridgewater Systems	Policy Controller/PCRF	●	●	●		●
Broadhop	Quantum Policy Server	●	●	●
Comability	ComAbility neXus			●
Comptel	Comptel Policy Control™			●	●
Cisco (Starent)	Policy and Charging Control
Digital Route	MediationZone Policy Control
EliteCore	Netvertex (PCRF)
Ericsson	Service-Aware Policy Controller (SAPC)
Flash Networks	POLICY MANAGER
FTS	Leap™ Policy Control	●		●		●
HP	HP Subscriber, Network and Application Policy	●
Huawei	Open Control & Charging Gateway	●
Kabira (Tibco software)	Policy Server			●
Mobixell (724)	X-treme Framework Platform (XF)	●		●
Nokia Siemens Networks	PCS 5000	●		●		●
Openet	FusionWorks™ Policy Manager			●		●
Orga Systems	Next Generation Control Point
Redknee	Policy Manager (PCRF)			●		●
Tekelec (Camiant)	Multimedia Policy Engine	●	●	●	●	●
Telcordia	Telcordia Bandwidth Manager
Volubill	CONTROL-IT Policy Manager
ZTE	ZXUN RCP	●