Red Bend Software will demonstrate innovative new capabilities of its Mobile Software Management and Mobile Virtualization products in its suite at GSMA’s 2011 Mobile World Congress. The demonstrations will showcase the capabilities of Red Bend’s products that mobile network operators, device manufacturers, semiconductor vendors, software developers and others in the mobile ecosystem depend on to increase revenue, get products to market more quickly, and increase customer satisfaction and retention.

Demonstrations will include:

• The World’s First Smartphone Featuring WAC Widgets That Can Be Independently Managed Over the Air: Red Bend customer Smart Communications, the Philippines’ leading mobile operator with 44 million subscribers, will demonstrate the new SMART Netphone™ featuring widgets from the Wholesale Application Community (WAC). Red Bend’s over-the-air software management solution enables Smart to control the software assets that drive its services revenue, showing how operators can monetize WAC widgets.
• $100 Smartphones Are a Reality with Red Bend Mobile Virtualization: Adoption of the Android OS is moving from high-end smartphones to mainstream feature phones. Red Bend’s VLX™ software enables Android to run on low-cost, single-core hardware platforms, creating a new market of sub-$100 smartphones to satisfy market demand for smartphone performance at feature phone prices.
• Reducing the Risks and Costs of Introducing a New Mobile Application: Until now, the only metric service providers had to indicate the popularity of a new application was how many times it was downloaded, not how often it was used. Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile® Software Management and Application Analytics solution analyzes consumers’ actual usage of mobile applications. This in-depth data enables service providers to bring new products to market faster, at lower cost, and with less risk, driving revenue growth and improving consumer satisfaction.
• Protecting the Network by Identifying Rogue Applications: There are hundreds of thousands of mobile applications consumers can download from many sources. Unfortunately some of them are malicious, rogue applications. Red Bend’s Mobile Software Management solution identifies rogue apps according to predefined thresholds, and generates actionable alerts and reports. This data enables service providers to remotely remove rogue apps or alert the developer to fix the problem, increasing network security and reducing bandwidth congestion.

Mindspeed Technologies will demonstrate over-the-air (OTA) transmission, in the 2.6GHz spectrum, of high-definition (HD) video powered by its Transcede wireless baseband processor at Mobile World Congress.

In collaboration with companies Interphase Corporation, Continuous Computing and Ixia, Mindspeed will host live LTE picocell demonstrations for service providers, customers and analysts throughout the 2011 Mobile World Congress event in its booth (2H57) and meeting room in Hall 2 of the Fira de Barcelona-Montjüic in Barcelona. The demonstrations will showcase the industry-leading features that make the Transcede-powered approach unique among semiconductor solutions marketed to manufacturers of 4G base stations.

“Mobile network operators and base station manufacturers are migrating to heterogeneous LTE networks featuring a scalable infrastructure of femtocells, picocells, microcells and macrocells,” said Alan Taylor, director of marketing for the communications convergence processing business unit at Mindspeed. “This market shift will be played out over the next half decade or more with a challenging set of requirements for processing power, low-power operation, form factor flexibility, and compact configurations that can only be effectively met with a scalable SoC architecture.”

Mindspeed’s Transcede processor is the first fully-integrated single SoC eNodeB solution offering 3GPP Release 8-compliant LTE Layer 1, Layer 2 and Layer 3 processing with picocell performance. It offers base station manufacturers the ability to leverage the same software architecture and programming model across the company’s entire family of Transcede processors, and to scale designs from femtocells and picocells to microcells and macrocells. Transcede supports multiple radio access network (RAN) technologies in a single device and provides the industry’s highest level of integration. It was named “Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough” at the 2010 Mobile Excellence Awards (MEA).

E-Band Communications Corporation, manufacturer of 80 GHz backhaul solutions for 4G/LTE networks, announced the introduction of the E-Link 1000Q radio with next generation spectral efficiency and channel tuning capability. The 1000Q utilizes QPSK modulation for superior spectrum efficiency, which can translate into lower licensing costs and conservation of the 70/80 GHz frequency spectrum. The 1000Q is designed for dense urban LTE networks, making it particularly attractive for carriers needing to upgrade infrastructure in metropolitan areas of Europe and Asia. The 1000Q provides multiple frequency choices, smaller channels and reduced interference. This gives carriers maximum flexibility and a “future proof” backhaul solution that will grow with the demands of their LTE network, while maximizing performance and ROI.

“As mobile operators and service providers migrate to LTE networks, it’s essential that wireless backhaul solutions not only provide reliable Gigabit throughput, but also highly flexible spectrum management,” said Saul Umbrasas, co-founder and SVP of Sales and Marketing for E-Band Communications. “The E-Link 1000Q is a purpose-built solution for LTE carriers concerned about network congestion and frequency optimization. It builds on and expands our successful 1000LR platform, which received widespread carrier acceptance in 2010, boosting sales over 450% over the previous year. The E-Link 1000Q continues the 1000LR legacy, and adds spectrum efficient channel management.”

The E-Link 1000Q includes the richest feature set in the 80 GHz backhaul solutions market and meets ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) channel requirements. Furthermore, it continues E-Band’s RF leadership position with the industry’s highest output power and the lowest latency in the industry, at less than 5 microseconds. E-Band’s quarter-watt output amplifier, driven by proprietary gallium arsenide MMICs, enables the E-Link 1000Q to provide the longest link distances and highest QoS in the industry. Additionally, the E-Link 1000Q is easy to install, thanks to PoE and field-selectable GigE interface options.

Openwave Systems has announced that Juniper Networks has selected the company as a strategic partner to integrate its Media Optimizer into Juniper’s Media Flow solution for mobile video optimization. The combined solution is expected to dramatically improve the economics of delivering video over mobile networks while revolutionizing the user viewing experience.

According to Yankee Group, video is projected to exceed 65 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2013, creating a capacity crunch on mobile networks and negatively impacting subscribers’ viewing experience, resulting in downward pressure on both revenues and profitability of mobile service providers. The Media Flow video optimization solution provides a scalable and transparent mechanism that maximizes the subscriber’s Quality of Experience (QoE) while at the same time enhancing profitability by deferring RAN CAPEX and OPEX. The solution offers price-performance improvement over traditional optimization solutions by leveraging the Juniper Service Delivery Gateway (SDG). The context-aware capabilities of the solution help adapt video traffic according to network conditions such as congestion, device capabilities and user preferences.

“As mobile networks move towards an all-IP 4G network architecture, they need to switch from basic service management to service orchestration,” said John Giere, senior vice president, products and marketing, Openwave. “While many network and middleware providers claim they have integration into the service provider infrastructure, we believe that the joint Openwave and Juniper solution will be the first solution in the market that can actually enable unprecedented scale and flexibility to enable service providers to effectively manage their network resources while providing a superior experience for subscribers.”

The combined Juniper/Openwave solution will set a new benchmark in video optimization for 3G and LTE networks,” said Mike Iandolo, vice president and general manager for Mobile Business Unit, Juniper Networks. “Operators will now be able to create innovative new business models by combining the real-time application intelligence and subscriber policies to support growing video traffic.”

Juniper Networks today announced a portfolio of products, solutions and partnerships that deliver open, scalable and secure solutions for mobile operators seeking profitable growth from the accelerating smartphone revolution. Juniper’s new network solutions for the mobile Internet integrate the scale and simplicity of IP with the pervasive connectivity of mobility allowing mobile operators to monetize smartphone growth and lay a solid foundation for higher bandwidth, rich media applications.

“By 2020, there will be billions of smartphones and tens of billions of machine-to-machine devices on the market which will accelerate the move to IP-based mobile architectures and new business models. To capitalize on these dynamics, Juniper offers mobile operators a differentiated pathway to profitability,” said Manoj Leelanivas, executive vice president and general manager of Junos® Application Software, Juniper Networks.  “Juniper is providing solutions that immediately lower cost, orchestrate data and video delivery to maximize precious RAN resources, and offer a service innovation platform to unleash new services that operators can monetize.”

The new network for mobility combines the strengths of IP and mobile technologies together in a single portfolio. As the mobile landscape expands from traditional voice and SMS to multimedia applications, mobile operators require graceful migration to LTE, without forklift upgrades, while building intelligent IP service orchestration. Juniper’s unique portfolio of solutions unifies the legacy and new technologies with breakthrough performance, scale and open APIs for mobile operators to rapidly introduce new services.

Today Juniper, whose products and solutions are used by more than 300 service providers worldwide, introduces the following new mobile network solutions:

• MobileNext — The Industry’s First Open Mobile Core: Delivering on Project Falcon, Juniper announces MobileNext, the first open mobile core network with a programmable platform for service innovation. MobileNext provides 2G/3G and LTE evolved packet core functions with the MobileNext Broadband Gateway providing GGSN/P-GW/ S-GW, MobileNext Control Gateway providing SGSN/MME, and MobileNext Policy Manager providing PCRF functions. Running on the Juniper Networks® MX 3D Universal Edge platform, the MobileNext Broadband Gateway is a suite of software that offers industry leading scalability of mobile sessions, set up rates and forwarding capacity and a programmable platform for rapid service innovation.
• MobileNext Consumer Services: Delivered on a single platform, MobileNext provides simultaneous 2G/3G and LTE services with seamless handoffs and low latency for quality of experience for end user applications. Operators can gracefully migrate to LTE while maintaining customer satisfaction.
• MobileNext Business Services: Delivering new monetization opportunities for operators, Mobile Business Services offer a network-based solution that reduces latency and cuts costs by combining APN technology within the mobile operator’s network, with the Junos Pulse client-based solution via an SSL VPN. For on-the-go employees with smartphones and laptops, MobileNext Business Services provide seamless corporate access for the dynamic enterprise, anytime, anywhere.
• Service Delivery Gateway: Also based on the MX 3D portfolio, the Service Delivery Gateway provides a rich suite of vital IP functions such as Carrier Grade NAT, Firewall, Traffic Direct for offload, Video Optimization, Dynamic Subscriber Awareness, and Application Load Balancing on a single Junos® platform. This integration of services delivers up to 36 percent TCO savings and improved experience over current deployments which use a long chain of expensive point products.
• Expanded Media Flow Portfolio: Through integration of the Juniper Media Flow Solution with video optimization leader Openwave Systems, Juniper’s expanded Media Flow portfolio with its integrated Video Optimization Solution reduces the cost of delivering mobile video and maximizes RAN investment while improving subscriber quality of experience. The combined solution including Juniper’s MobileNext and Media Flow together with Openwave Systems Media Optimization product provides intelligent caching, traffic steering, dynamic video compression and transcoding for video streams to mobile devices.
• Expanded Security Solutions for Junos Pulse: Juniper is delivering an expansion of the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite to new devices and customers –which includes anti-virus, anti-spam, malware protection, and remote device lock and erase to protect against loss or theft. Service providers can bundle these capabilities as part of a turnkey solution for hosted mobile security offerings to help drive incremental revenue while delivering peace of mind to customers who are at risk from malicious security threats.

To help mobile operators prepare, plan, deploy and optimize their mobile networks, Juniper also announced new Mobile Internet Professional Services which include LTE and IPv6 readiness assessments, mobile video optimization services and managed security services, all designed to streamline operator migration to LTE.

“With mobile data traffic growing exponentially, not only do operators have to scale their networks to meet the demand but also personalize subscriber experiences,” said Jennifer Pigg, vice president, Yankee Group. “Our service provider clients are clamoring for innovative solutions such as Juniper’s new network and MobileNext that lower their cost per bit while, increasing the value per bit.”

Ocean Observations, award winning design agency, and IKIVO, market leading supplier of UI solutions based on open web standards, today jointly announce their partnership to deliver Fipplr, a progressive Android Homescreen. Fipplr improves content and social service experiences thanks to purposeful feeds and an unconventional take on graphic design.

“Many homescreens fail to provide meaningful interactions and access to information adapted to users’ motivations and context. A majority of homescreens focus on mundane widgets like clocks and weather reports,” says Sofia Svanteson, founder and CEO of Ocean Observations. “There is a large group of users who want a truly connected service experience that easily adapts to their situations. Fipplr empowers users to customize their phones with information they crave.”

By responding to user interactions with smooth animations and precise reactions, Fipplr removes the tedious opening and closing of applications, and jumping back and forth to access information. Users gain access to real-time feeds that focus on one topic; for example a Twitter widget filters on mentions of a certain profile or feeds with a specific hashtag. New interaction methods, enabled by integrating device sensors, improve the experience. Rotating the device from portrait to landscape presents an expose view and a single swipe movement is enough to modify a profile.

“IKIVO and Ocean share the philosophy that it takes meaningful design and great technology to solve problems,” says Brad Sipes, CEO of IKIVO. “Ocean has a way of quickly isolating usability issues and creating design benefits. With IKIVO Enrich we bring development early in the design process, quickly adopt changes, and shorten the time from early concept to implementation. We believe marrying Ocean’s great design and IKIVO’s powerful Enrich UI solution has enormous potential.”

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