BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC - News) today announced its Smart Access Manager™ (SAM), featured during the Mobile World Congress 2012 (MWC2012) being held in Barcelona, Spain February 27 – March 1. InterDigital’s SAM is a policy-driven client that enables smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices to make intelligent traffic management decisions using Wi-Fi®, 3G and LTE networks, resulting in optimized connectivity and enhanced service provider visibility and control.
The SAM client dynamically adjusts traffic flows and application connectivity based on real-time network conditions, subscriber profile, battery life, service provider and user preferences. The policy for traffic management also includes allocation of individual application data streams to specific access networks, based on operator policy and required QoS/QoE. The SAM monitors real-time network performance to drive policy enforcement and ensure QoE over Wi-Fi, and a near-term future release will support seamless mobility of application flows across network interfaces, based on network control.
The SAM from InterDigital® offers a seamless Wi-Fi extension to 3G or LTE networks that can yield significant benefits:
Improved capacity, coverage and an enhanced user experience, resulting in reduced churn;
Leverage of existing or new Wi-Fi assets that is more cost-effective than expanding cellular infrastructure;
Extended operator services at the home or within an enterprise, thereby expanding operator service revenues;
Increased service provider visibility and control over the subscriber, whether on cellular or Wi-Fi networks, through enhanced network performance metrics and feedback.
Working with leading Tier 1 network infrastructure OEMs, InterDigital has achieved full interoperability of its SAM client with policy control servers and OMA device management servers. The companies tested provisioning of Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) policies and are ready for service provider/MNO demonstrations and field testing. InterDigital’s SAM is IETF-compliant and compatible with commercial platforms for Android and Windows-based smartphones, tablets and notebooks. Its features are compliant to 3GPP Release 8 and beyond.
“The Smart Access Manager is an essential step towards our vision of the network of the future, the Network of Networks, which we see as a pool of network capabilities stitched together dynamically to create a single, optimized connectivity solution. We see a policy-driven intelligent client like SAM as a first step on that transition from fixed networks to a dynamic mesh of network assets,” said Michael Regensburg, Executive Vice President of Business Development at InterDigital. “Our successful interoperability testing and technology collaboration with industry leaders underscores the maturity of our SAM client, the importance of policy-driven access management to the industry, and InterDigital’s leadership in innovative connectivity solutions.”
Visitors to MWC2012 can see a demonstration of the Smart Access Manager client in the InterDigital booth, Hall 1, stand 1D07.
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