Company

Blueslice, a Tekelec Company

Tekelec

 

Founded in 2001, Blueslice Networks is a global leader and innovator in evolved Subscriber Data Management (eSDM) solutions. Blueslice builds next-generation mobile core equipment for the world's leading communication service providers. Blueslice's mission is to lead the market with a best-of-breed, evolved Subscriber Data Management solution that serves across all technologies and domains. With a high-level of customer satisfaction and a strong commitment to service excellence, Blueslice is trailblazing the market with its unmatched innovation.

Blueslice is solely dedicated to eSDM solutions; managing the service provider's most valuable asset - the subscriber - at the heart of a user-centric network. This industry-leading expertise and vision makes the Blueslice eSDM portfolio the most advanced and innovative solution on the market.

Blueslice is the first network core equipment vendor to realize that subscribers are multi-dimensional. The Blueslice eSDM Portfolio serves a diverse mix of service providers across multiple market segments, such as Mobile carriers, Multi-play operators, VoIP providers, FMC players, MVNOs, and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) operators. By offering service providers the unique capability of managing its multiple-profile, complex subscribers in a converged, simple eSDM solution, Blueslice helps service providers drastically reduce CAPEX and OPEX, and significantly improve their ROI.

As an independent company, Blueslice brings an industry-leading approach to the management of subscriber information for innovative service providers. The success of Blueslice is due to its nimble business practices, the breadth of experience and strength of its leadership team complemented by the most comprehensive, unparalleled eSDM solution portfolio on the market. The CEO and investors have created shareholder value of over $1Billion through prior ventures. Based in Montreal, Canada, Blueslice is part of a leading telecom environment and receives further support from the government of Canada. The products are selected and deployed by leading global mobile players, and partnerships are in place with incumbent vendors.

The Growth of Cellular Communications

GSM, UMTS and  now LTE are the fastest growing communications technologies of all time. The billionth GSM user was connected in Q1 2004, 12 years after the launch of the first GSM networks, and the second billionth GSM user was connected in Q2 2006, just two and a half years after the first billion. This exponential adoption of technology was seen with UMTS, and now LTE is gaining significant global traction.

The Multi-Profile Subscriber

With the proliferation of access technologies available, subscribers now have a plethora of communication choices and are accumulating devices upon devices and identities upon identities. At the same time, operators are struggling to manage these multiple access networks and multiple profiles in multiple silos. These market forces are creating the " multi-profile subscriber" and challenging operators to converge their networks and consolidate their subscriber information.

 

To best protect the operator's current investments, the Blueslice eSDM portfolio is the only industry solution that can seamlessly consolidate and manage converged subscriber profiles across 2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE), 3G (UMTS/HSPA) and 4G (LTE) domains. This innovation provides the service provider with a gradual, modular and cost-effective evolution to 4G.

Blueslice eSDM Portfolio

The Blueslice Converged Subscriber Platform 3000™ is the industry-leading, next-generation platform for multi-profile Subscriber Data Management in Mobile, VoIP, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), and Machine-to-machine (M2M) networks. The CSP 3000™ platform features a distributed and layered architecture that integrates multiple front-end applications, such as the ngHLR 3000™, HSS 3000™, SIP-AS 3000™ and the AAA 3000™, hosted on a converged, scalable back-end database, the SDS 3000™ - the cornerstone of the Blueslice eSDM solution - as a single logical entity.

This revolutionary architecture supplies service providers with unlimited scalability, carrier-grade reliability, enhanced feature sets, and a platform to host new revenue-generating applications and services.

Market Differentiators

The Blueslice CSP 3000™ goes way beyond the traditional Subscriber Data Management functions, by enabling all access technologies to have converged subscriber profiles across 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE), 3G (UMTS, HSPA, IMS), 4G (LTE, WiMAX) and VoIP (Wireline, WiFi) domains. Along with its integrated next-generation Home Location Register, Home Subscriber Server (HSS), SIP Application Server, and AAA Server, the Blueslice eSDM solution can extend its front-end application suite to include, Mobile Number Portability, ENUM, 3rd Party Applications etc. to service multiple market needs. The flexible and scalable back-end, SDS 3000™, is the industry-leading database fully in compliance with the 3GPP User Data Convergence architecture.

The CSP 3000™ is the only solution on the market that combines these front-end applications and enables the centralization of cross-domain subscriber information in its back-end database, supporting functions such as location, network authentication, access preferences, services, identities, presence etc., to be configured and managed as one universal profile in a single logical place.

Subscriber-centric Solutions for Operators

Blueslice is driving mobile service providers towards innovation by giving them the tools to consolidate their subscribers’ profiles into a single logical solution. The Blueslice solution enables the service providers to deliver innovative services and next-generation applications to the end-users, making the value chain shift in their favour.

By initiating the convergence process at the subscriber level, an operator can become a converged solution provider furthering its growth and market share. This would result in a consistent, enhanced user experience across all domains for the end-users. The service providers would have greater control over their subscriber base, reduced costs as a result of a simplified eSDM solution, and a next-generation platform to deploy new revenue-generating applications and services.

The Blueslice Converged Subscriber Platform 3000™, with its unique multi-profile, eSDM solution approach, is most aligned with market dynamics. The Blueslice eSDM solution meets the current needs of service providers and end-users, grows with their demands of tomorrow and prepares them for the trends of the future. With Blueslice, Subscriber Data Management... Evolved!