Bridgewater and Allot Enable Integrated
Policy-Based Management for Value-Added IP
Business Services
KANATA, Ontario/LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1999
Synergistic solution means Service Providers can ensure the quality of
VPN, VoIP and other enhanced applications for corporate customers
Bridgewater Systems, the leader in policy-based IP service provisioning and control software, and Allot Communications,
a pioneer in policy-based bandwidth management and networking solutions, have joined forces to provide the most
comprehensive solution for policy-driven Internet Protocol (IP) services available today.
The joint solution speeds and eases the deployment of new IP data and voice services by uniting business policies with
network service policies, for all customers, across all IP services.
Service providers can now more readily offer value-added services to corporate customers including differentiated Quality
of Service (QoS) and service prioritization, key requirements for mission-critical and time-sensitive business applications
like Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Voice over IP (VoIP).
``The ability to prioritize time-sensitive applications such as voice over IP and guarantee quality for VPN services in a
multi-service environment is critical to our success in the corporate market,' said Barbara Roden, CTO for BellSouth.net.
``We researched the marketplace for a company that could provide a policy management solution that could bring
BellSouth the levels of flexibility and power it needs to make the next generation of Internet and IP services a reality.'
Service providers deploying the combined Bridgewater-Allot solutions will realize a host of key benefits, including:
Single view of customers and their privileges, eliminating the need to manage policies on a per service or device basis
Ability to easily bundle multiple services and policies into attractive service offerings
Opportunity to easily set up communities of interest and their associated access policies
Ability to define and refine policies dynamically to better meet customer requirements and to provide higher quality
service for critical business services
Accurate and consolidated usage-based accounting for flexible billing
Central view of customers and their subscribed services provides substantial marketing intelligence and flexibility to
sell new and bundled services
Allot offers bandwidth shaping products, the AC200 and AC300, as well as the AC Policy Manager for administering the
associated network policies, such as traffic prioritization and guaranteed bandwidth.
Bridgewater's WideSpan(TM) solution is an integrated policy management and AAA system that consolidates
network-wide information about users and their service profiles and policies. It correlates business and service policies with
network-level policies defined in the Allot policy management system.
Together these products give service providers the ability to link business policies, such as user, department, organizations
and domain information and priorities with network and service policies, such as QoS, and what application (Email, Web,
etc.) a user can access when.
Yigal Jacoby, CEO of Allot Communications commented, ``The joint Bridgewater - Allot solution brings together the tools
necessary for Telcos and ISPs to offer managed carrier-grade IP services to their customers. We are excited about the
opportunity to dynamically tie Allot's policy management applications to a service provider's front and backend operations
- extending the power of the core solution.'
The Bridgewater and Allot systems share user and policy information via LDAP -ensuring synchronization and establishing
a single view of the service provider's customers and privileges. This integrated view of the users and all the services they
can access eliminates the need to manage policies on a per device or per application basis.
``Quality of service is important, but what is even more important is the ability to tie it to the right customer and the right
applications' noted Dave Curley, vice president of marketing at Bridgewater Systems, ``Bridgewater wants to work with
leaders in the policy networking arena such as Allot to help service providers create attractive offerings with harmonized
management of all their service policies - in essence, injecting a whole new layer of versatility and power into the equation.'
About Bridgewater Systems
Bridgewater Systems is a global supplier of intelligent software systems for the creation and control of advanced IP
services. Bridgewater has developed a carrier-class, integrated and scalable new approach to IP networking.
The Bridgewater family of products enables the creation, provisioning and billing of policy-based Internet services,
including Internet access, corporate outsourcing of full-service intranets and extranets, IP multimedia services, and SS7
enabled IP-networking.
Bridgewater has been consistently recognized as an innovator in IP technology, starting in 1997 with a Best of Show award
at the Networld+InterOp Conference and Exhibition in Paris. The company was named one of the ``Top 25 Hot Startups
of 1998' by Data Communications magazine.
At communications industry trade show SUPERCOMM '99, Bridgewater was honored with a SUPERQuest Award for
Most Promising IP Technology. Bridgewater is taking a proactive and leading role in the development of new standards at
forums such as the ITESF (Internet Traffic Engineering Solutions Forum) and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
Bridgewater has offices in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Please visit the Bridgewater website:
bridgewatersys.com.
About Allot Communications
Allot Communications develops, manufactures, and markets policy-based networking solutions. In an era of increasing
network chaos and bandwidth hungry applications, there is a need for products that handle network traffic according to its
importance to corporate or service provider goals.
Rather than simply continuing to increase network bandwidth, Allot's products provide a more structured policy-based
approach to ensuring the quality and availability of network services, resources and applications.
Allot Communications was founded in 1996 to solve network performance problems through traffic shaping, server
load-balancing, IP accounting, cache redirection and integrated network management. Allot was recognized by Data
Communications in 1998 as a ``Top 25 Hot Startup' and recently received a ``1999 Hot Product of the Year' award from
the magazine.
Allot Communications has offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sophia Antipolis, France and Los Gatos, California. The company
sells and markets its products worldwide through OEM, distributors, and direct channels. To learn more about Allot
Communications, visit their web site at allot.com .
Bridgewater, its logo, and WideSpan are trademarks of Bridgewater Systems Corporation.
Contact:
Allot Communications
Tim Riley, 408/399-3154
triley@allot.com
or
Access Millennium 3, Inc,
Kelita Hull, 562/597-8086
kelita@access-pr.com
or
Bridgewater
Mildred Lynn McDonald, 613/591-6655, x 2855
mildredm@bridgewatersys.com
or
Interprose PR
Kristin Duskin-Gadd, 703/359-0305
kduskin-gadd@interprosepr.com |
