Mobile operators offering a convergent fixed/mobile strategy now have a means to manage the DSL/ WiFi router and the customer’s mobile phone from the same platform.
Device management company Sicap has added the ability to manage DSL CPE, using the Boradband Forum TR-069 standard to its Device Management Cente, which is already OMA-DM complaint. This means that a dual mode phone can be automatically managed through the home gateway itself – something Sicap is claiming is a first.
The newly extended Sicap Device Management Center (DMC) now enables automatic, network-based pairing between a DSL gateway and a dual-mode mobile device from a single platform.The announcement means that convergent operators are now able to gain a competitive advantage over mobile-only operators by offering their customers fully automated synchronisation of fixed and mobile devices.
Sicap has been working on the deal for a middle eastern operator, and claims to have other operators interested in the technology.
Sicap Sales Director Philippe Vial-Grelier said of the deal, “There is a strong demand from our convergent operator customers to roll-out offers for synchronising personal settings across multiple devices. Our DMC is already running on over forty operator networks worldwide. Certain regions are now ripe for convergent offers and we are helping these operators get to market on time with seamless and live updates through home gateways to any device.”