Openwave Announces "Passport: Smart Policy Edition" (Another Policy Product?)

  

Openwave announced "Openwave® Passport: Smart Policy Edition, a key solution in its Traffic Mediation product family. Passport is designed to enable mobile operators to successfully roll out new tiered pricing plans and rapidly adapt to changing market needs and growing demand. Passport: Smart Policy Edition incorporates a new feature set that includes advanced support for group-based pricing plans that can span multiple devices and users, as well as accumulated time plans."

See "Openwave Announces Latest Edition of Passport Offering" - here. Product brochure - here.

A bit confusing message, as to the difference between the new product and the Integra policy management solution (see also in the quote below).

"In addition to providing rich end user engagement capabilities through proactive notification (e.g. when roaming , nearing or exceeding service level quotas) , targeted service discovery and rich service self-care facilities, the latest Passport offering has advanced support for group pricing plans, enabling multiple devices, members of a family or a small enterprise to share a common service plan.
Operators can also offer bundled price plans based on various traffic profiles such as browsing, email, home network versus roaming, peak versus off-peak, defining specific quotas and bandwidth allowances in each case. In addition, Passport also supports accumulated time plans where users can buy a chunk of online time and use it at will. For example, a user could purchase 10 hours of online time and use it as he or she desires over a predetermined duration of time. Passport is deployed as part of Openwave’s IP traffic mediation solution. In cases where the operator has already deployed a network policy solution, Passport can coexist and integrate with a centralized policy controller."