Bridgewater Sets Industry-First Performance Benchmarks for 3G and 4G Control Plane

For the 4G LTE network, the Bridgewater HSS supported the test of Cisco's mobility management entity (MME) and the Bridgewater PCRF supported the test of the Cisco packet data network (PDN) gateway. The test simulated one million LTE devices coming onto the network within a short time. Once the devices were authenticated by the HSS, the PDN gateway requested attachment policies from the PCRF to activate both a dedicated bearer for a real-time VoIP or video data session as well as a default bearer for data services. The Bridgewater HSS and PCRF successfully supported sustained rates of 5,000 attachments per second.

"Smartphone use cases, end-user applications, and the way devices interact with the network, are evolving rapidly. This makes the control-plane performance of mobile packet core equipment critical to operators as they manage this transition and design their networks to meet future requirements."