F5 Partners with Siemens Convergence Creators' PCRF

F5 Networks and Siemens Convergence Creators announced that they have "successfully completed comprehensive interoperability tests of F5’s BIG-IP® Policy Enforcement Manager™ (PEM™), and Siemens Convergence Creators’ policy and charging rules function (PCRF) product, Siemens Policy Manager (SPM) .. Combining F5 and Siemens technology gives operators the ability to monetize networks by enabling them to customize rate plans for different types of use cases and subscribers. Also, CSPs can generate additional revenues by creating subscription plans that are tailored to fit their strategic business goals"

See more on F5's Policy Enforcement - here and here and on Siemens Convergence Creators PCRF - here.

"Joint customers can set policies to meet their business needs (such as tiered/premium service offerings or plans) with Siemens’ PCRF capabilities, while BIG-IP PEM provides the awareness and enforcement necessary to assure policies are carried out appropriately based on network and user conditions specific to the services being delivered".

See "F5 and Siemens Convergence Creators Help CSPs Pursue Policy-Driven Business Models and Increase Subscriber Satisfaction" - here.

[Update 70: Siemens Convergence Creators Added] PCRF - DPI Compatibility Matrix

Siemens Convergence Creators PCRF product, Policy Manager, was added to the PCRF-DPI Matrix (here).
Basic features:

• Performance:
• Up to 500.000 sessions in Item Store per GByte back-end memory
• More than 10.000 transactions per second on each front-end server
• More than 30 customers worldwide
• Connecting approx. 200 million subscribers
• Policy templates – easily address the most common use cases 
• Flexible business logic
• Network protection with DPI – make your network bigger than it really is 
• Modular architecture – integrate into any network