BASE Company Selects F5’s Diameter Signaling Delivery Controller to Provide Optimal LTE Customer Experience
September 24 2014 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
BASE Company prioritizes high network
performance and service quality
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Major Belgian mobile provider chooses
F5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller to help deliver great user
experience
- F5 Diameter solution lets customers
enjoy the benefits of LTE speeds without sacrificing network
performance
- F5 Signaling Delivery Controller will
help enable new and innovative consumer services to drive future
growth
F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) announced today that BASE Company—best
known for its consumer-orientated mobile services brand, BASE, and
one of Belgium’s largest telecom providers—has selected the F5®
Traffix® Signaling Delivery Controller™ (SDC™) to meet subscribers’
increasing demand for data. Last year, BASE Company became the
second operator in Belgium to launch 4G for its customers,
providing them with much higher speeds to optimize user experience
while watching video and consuming rich media.
“At BASE Company, we focus on offering our customers an optimal
experience through excellent service, sharp prices, and a
performant network,” said Jos Donvil, CEO, BASE Company. “Therefore
we believe in partnerships. We are able to keep improving what we
offer our customers by working with partners that share a
customer-service focus.”
“F5 Traffix SDC will support BASE Company in serving their
mobile customers with high data transfer speeds, as well as
enabling fast rollout of new services as more subscribers sign up
to enjoy LTE,” said Ben Volkow, VP, Product Development, F5. “Our
Diameter-based SDC has proved itself in more than 50 installations
with leading operators across the globe. One of its prime roles is
to enable operators to manage the huge increase in signaling
messages that typically occurs with LTE technology, primarily due
to consumer behavior with smartphones. By deploying the SDC, BASE
Company will benefit from great network performance and still be
able to offer innovative services that keep their business
competitive.”
About BASE Company
BASE Company is a fully-owned subsidiary of Royal KPN N.V.,
whose headquarters are located in Brussels. At the end of December
2013, BASE Company recorded a ~21% service revenue market share. In
2013, the company’s total revenues amounted to EUR 728 million in
Belgium, with an EBITDA of EUR 192 million and 922 employees. The
company is mainly active in the field of mobile telephony via the
brands BASE and BASE business. It also provides digital television,
Internet and fixed telephony services through its SNOW brand. BASE
Company follows a segmented customer targeting approach and
distributes its products and services via its BASE shops, ALLO
telecom shops, online and indirect channels.
BASE Company made significant investments in its mobile network
in recent years, bringing the company to the unique position in
Europe of being a mobile challenger that combines leading positions
in price, service and network.
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and
software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully
deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions
broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a
rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and data center
orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the
infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. The
world’s largest businesses, service providers, government entities,
and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of cloud, security,
and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.
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partners, and technologies.
F5, Traffix, Signaling Delivery Controller, and SDC are
trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and
other countries. Traffix is not a trademark of F5 Networks in
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Waggener Edstrom WorldwideAshley Paula,
415-547-7024apaula@waggeneredstrom.com
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