The joint solution from Cisco and Openet,which went live at mobile operator Turkcell in June 2009, introduces intelligence into the network to enable the real-time packet inspection, rating and billing of individual customers’ mobile data usage. It helps the operator deliver and charge for pre- and post-paid data and next-generation services. As a result, Turkcell, which has a subscriber base of more than 36 million, is able to provide subscribers with several billing options: by application used, for combined services or by data bandwidth consumed.

* Openet’s FusionWorks Convergent Charging solution deployed at Turkcell is combined with the following Cisco® technologies:
o Cisco Enhanced Gateway GPRS Support Node (eGGSN), based on the high-performance Service Application Module for IP (SAMI) technology in the Cisco 7600 Series Router;
o Cisco Service Control Engine;
o Cisco Access Register

* This combined solution was selected to help prepare Turkcell for a surge in data traffic from the launch of its 3G network in July 2009.

* The Cisco eGGSN solution provides advanced processing of Internet Protocol (IP) flows for content-aware billing, filtering, management and analysis in a highly scalable, fault-tolerant package. The solution helps Turkcell to deliver personalized mobile data services to its customers.

* Openet’s FusionWorks Convergent Charging product verifies the subscriber identity, the type of service and the authorization to use the service; advises on charge and session management; and charges for the service. These capabilities provide the transactional intelligence that Turkcell requires for the accurate delivery of, and charging for, 3G services.

* As a complementary technology with the Service Control Engine, Cisco provides content inspection capabilities that enable Turkcell to control network traffic and monetize subscriber use. Currently, there are servers deployed in Istanbul, with plans to roll out additional servers in Ankara and to augment the existing hardware in Istanbul as more subscribers begin to use Turkcell’s 3G network for data services.

* The joint solution was previously deployed to handle data on Turkcell’s 2G network and was selected for its ability to scale exponentially as 3G data use grows and delivery speeds rise as high as 1,500 transactions per second. Turkcell’s 2G customer base consists predominantly of consumers using voice and SMS services.

* The ability to handle real-time GPRS transactions now allows Turkcell to maximize profitability from data services, thereby creating a commercially viable proposition to take to the enterprise market. What’s more, the solution is a 3rd Generation Partnership Project initiative that is IMS-standard-compliant and device-agnostic, so Turkcell can now handle the growing demand for next-generation services such as mobile TV and mobile Internet.

* Cisco Advanced Services provided end-to-end integration, deployment and support services working in close collaboration with Openet.

“Openet’s solutions are designed to enable new revenue streams and extract increased value from diverse service provider networks,” commented Shane O’Flynn, vice president, managed services and support, Openet. “This capability is essential for operators as they adopt end-to-end SDPs to increase service revenue growth and retain customers. The SDP Alliance recognizes the need to include real-time, convergent charging to the SDP as a means to track, charge and bill the innovative services enabled by the other Alliance partners.”

FusionWorks Charging allows operators to exploit their investments in next-generation network technologies. The real-time charging solution delivers any service to any type of subscriber, enabling any kind of payment method to be collected or authorized before delivery actually takes place. By seamlessly integrating with intelligent network probes, FusionWorks Charging provides the business logic to make all important policy enforcement decisions and the technical framework to accommodate shortcomings in the scalability of traditional pre-paid mechanisms.

“All the members of the SDP Alliance ­­– including Openet ­­– are category leaders,” commented Denis Murphy, co-chair of The SDP Alliance Steering Committee. “Collectively they offer a really compelling, pre-integrated and product-based SDP solution.”

For a demonstration of the pre-integrated, convergent SDP, visit The SDP Alliance during the 3GSM World Congress, February 12 – 15, 2007, Booth #2J27, Hall 2.

About Openet
Openet is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions. The Transactional Intelligence of the company’s solutions extracts increased value from diverse service provider networks, enabling rapid introduction of new services and reliable, cost-effective management of existing services. Openet is focused on delivering best-in-class network edge solutions and specialized engagement processes that create business value from network activity. A global company, Openet’s implementations include long-running engagements with the world’s leading service providers such as British Telecom, Orange , Cingular and Verizon Wireless. For more information, visit www.openet.com.

About The SDP Alliance
The SDP Alliance is a collaboration of seven software vendors each of which provides a best-of-breed component of a service delivery platform (SDP). Alliance members include Aepona, ChangingWorlds, Cibenix, MobileAware, Mobile Cohesion, Openet and Xiam. The key components of the SDP architecture provided by these member companies cover the following:

- Secure and open access to core network capabilities
- Intelligent personalised navigation for content discovery
- Content rendering and optimisation
- Content management and content push technologies
- Partner relationship management
- Convergent charging
- One-to-one marketing and content delivery

Further information is available at www.thesdpalliance.com.

Openet achieved this growth by addressing the needs of communications service providers for IMS-ready network-edge software solutions that help them realize the potential value of the usage information generated by their networks. Openet’s products and solutions enable charging for content-based services, detecting revenue leakage, complying with regulations governing lawful network surveillance, and providing marketers a comprehensive view of how subscribers are using services.

“We are relentlessly focussed on executing this mission – to be the leading provider of convergent event processing and transaction management solutions to service providers worldwide,” said Niall Norton, President and CEO of Openet. “I am very pleased with our continued strong performance as the business continues to demonstrate significant revenue growth in a challenging market.”

Operators select Openet for two primary reasons. The first is the company’s ability to address business problems while providing solutions that will maintain performance and availability while the volume of events and transactions on their networks continue to increase with the use of data and content services. The second is Openet’s thought leadership in developing convergent and IMS-ready software.

“A growing number of operators understand the importance of scalability, availability, speed and convergence in network event and transaction processing solutions and they are choosing Openet to address their needs,” Norton said. “The economies of scale, the superior business benefits – both operationally and financially – are all attractive to our target customers.”

In 2007, Openet will invest heavily in continued growth. Openet will introduce several new products and solutions that further address operators need to reduce operating costs, ensure regulatory compliance, and increase revenue and ARPU by helping them realize the potential value of the usage information generated by their networks. In addition to its aggressive product development program of convergent network-edge software, Openet is also investing in sales and marketing to further increase market awareness and educate Operators about the advantages of working with Openet.

Adding to its existing software business, Openet launched its Managed Services Division in November 2006 to fulfill growing customer demands for the direct management and outsourcing of customers operations. The division will provide operators with outsourced day-to-day IT and network operations staffing, consulting and expertise.

About Openet
Openet is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions that enable service providers to maximize profitability, minimize deployment and management costs and ensure regulatory and partner requirements compliance. Our products – FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks Charging, and FusionWorks Real-Time Rating – and the solutions they enable, set the industry standard for availability, performance and scale in processing and management of network activity events and transactions in multi-service convergent environments.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and offices in the United States, Singapore and Brazil and Malaysia, Openet has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.

Additional information is available at www.openet.com

The scope of this project with Openet includes Mediation and Correlation for all of the Operators voice traffic with a goal of enhancing the Revenue Assurance reporting and controls for not only voice traffic, but all other types of usage as well. Some of the additional usage types that will be processed with the Openet FusionWorks solution include: Push-To-Talk traffic, SMS, MMS and Packet Data.

“This latest customer win for Openet illustrates the flexibility of Openet’s products to provide network-edge business solutions that increase revenue and profitability,” said Apollo Guy , Openet Vice President of Sales and Alliances for the Americas, “Openet’s Revenue Assurance solution delivers considerable more revenue to the billing system than the operator’s legacy system”

Openet’s newest customer provides a range of voice and data services to millions of mobile subscribers in multiple countries in Central and Latin America . The deployment of Openet’s Revenue Assurance solution will collect network usage data for voice, push-to-talk, text messaging, multimedia messaging and wireless data services and provide real-time analysis and reporting capabilities that identify and correct revenue leakage.

The project will encompass multiple phases with the first being scheduled for delivery by the end of year 2006 and the final phase of this initial project scheduled to deliver in the second quarter of 2007 with multiple deliveries scheduled in the interim.

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions that enable service providers to maximize profitability, minimize deployment and management costs and ensure regulatory and partner requirements compliance. Our products – FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks Charging, and FusionWorks Real-Time Rating – and the solutions they enable, set the industry standard for availability, performance and scale in processing and management of network activity events and transactions in multi-service convergent environments.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and offices in the United States, Singapore and Brazil and Malaysia , Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Iusacell, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Additional information is available at www.openet.com.

“Openet was pleased to draw upon our experience and expertise in convergent network mediation and charging to contribute to this important specification,” said Joe Hogan, CTO of Openet. “Our participation in the CableLabs specification process further demonstrates Openet’s IMS expertise and thought leadership in developing and deploying high-volume, low latency network event and transaction processing solutions.”

The Residential SIP Telephony Accounting specification defines the collection of usage data and additional requirements for processing accounting events using the Diameter Base Protocol and specific IMS charging interfaces. The new specification ensures that residential telephony features which are currently available on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) shall be supported for PacketCable 2.0. These include the most commonly used residential telephony features and capabilities, including caller ID, call forwarding, call hold, call transfer, three-way calling, emergency calling, and operator services.

“The new Residential SIP Telephony Accounting specification will enable operators to track and optionally charge for telephony features executed by SIP application servers,” said Marc Price, Openet’s Senior Telecom Analyst and participant in the PacketCable 2.0 Accounting focus team. “This is an important step towards realizing the promise of IMS and PacketCable 2.0. Operators can confidently deploy new service features, knowing that these can be accounted for with existing standards.”

Openet’s industry’s leading charging and accounting solution for IMS architectures, is fully compliant with the PacketCable 2.0 Accounting specification, and 3GPP IMS Online and Offline Charging Releases 5, 6, and 7. Openet provides interoperability testing support for Diameter accounting within the industry, including ongoing support for IETF’s DiME Working Group, which focuses on Credit Control extensions for industry-standard Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) functions.

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions that enable service providers to maximize profitability, minimize deployment and management costs and ensure regulatory and partner requirements compliance. Our products – FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks Charging, and FusionWorks Real-Time Rating – and the solutions they enable, set the industry standard for availability, performance and scale in processing and management of network activity events and transactions in multi-service convergent environments.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and offices in the United States, Singapore and Brazil and Malaysia, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.

CableLabs and PacketCable are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Additional information is available at www.openet.com

Built upon Openet’s FusionWorks Mediation product, the Lawful Network Surveillance solution supports real-time network activity monitoring and investigative analysis of circuit-switched and packet-based voice and data communications services on high scale wireline, wireless, and cable networks.

“Upcoming mandates for network data retention have encouraged communication service providers to enhance their security and compliance capabilities,” said Michael Manzo, Vice President of Global Marketing at Openet. “Openet’s Lawful Network Surveillance solution, with comprehensive and flexible collection and correlation of converged network usage data, enables operators to address regulated and unregulated requirements for delivery of real-time call or session data to national security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies.”

The Openet Lawful Network Surveillance solution is fully configurable to support the requirements of individual service providers for collecting activity events from network equipment and correlating and retaining data for later forensics. The solution is in production today in service provider networks feeding data retention warehouses which hold billions of network activity events collected for compliance purposes.

Openet’s Lawful Network Surveillance solution enables operators to reduce deployment and management costs, assure regulatory compliance, and conform to regulatory and government agency requirements through the following capabilities:
- Comprehensive collection and correlation of activity events for voice and data services on circuit and packet networks across all network elements and service delivery platforms within an operator’s network.
- Real-time enrichment of network activity events from both internal and external information sources, allowing operators to augment activity events with information such as the user’s location or translate an Internet communications address to a telephone number.
- Real-time correlation analytics to apply surveillance logic to network activity events to identify suspicious activity for targeted
users.
- Automatic operator identification when communications sessions are between two different service providers.
- Secure delivery of information to data warehouse platforms for subpoena processing and network forensics.

The Openet Lawful Network Surveillance solution is built on Openet’s FusionWorks Mediation product to provide unparalleled performance, availability and scale in real-time network activity event collection, correlation and distribution in convergent network and service environments. FusionWorks Mediation is used today by more than 50 operators worldwide including four of the 11 largest operators in the world, and is used to process billions of transactions per day as part of solutions for Billing Mediation, Revenue Assurance and Lawful Network Surveillance.

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions that enable service providers to maximize profitability, minimize deployment and management costs and ensure regulatory and partner requirements compliance. Our products – FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks Charging, and FusionWorks Real-Time Rating – and the solutions they enable, set the industry standard for availability, performance and scale in processing and management of network activity events and transactions in multi-service convergent environments.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and offices in the United States, Singapore and Brazil and Malaysia, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.

Additional information is available at www.openet.com.

The Intelligence Support Systems (ISS) World event tackles topics relating to Lawful Interception, Investigative Analysis and Network Security. It is the world’s largest gathering of telecommunications service providers, government intercept policy makers, law enforcement agents, investigative analysts, prosecutors and vendors addressing lawful interception issues and solutions.

“Service providers are under increasing pressure to comply with data retention and delivery requirements imposed by Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)”, said Joe Hogan, CTO of Openet. “High-speed correlation platforms are a critical component for today’s converged service provider infrastructure to support multi-service surveillance and traffic analysis for LEAs and national security agencies in their respective countries.”

Flexible correlation platforms provide a far more sophisticated surveillance processing capability than traditional single service Lawful Intercept products. Designed to meet the demands of Tier 1 converged service providers, Openet’s comprehensive network collection and correlation platform supports the real-time requirements of law enforcement for monitoring fixed, mobile and transient users of communications services.

More information on the event is available at http://www.telestrategies.com/iss_fall06

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a world-leading provider of Active OSS solutions that enable network operators to maximize the profitability of their network and services. Our products, FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks ActiveCharge, FusionWorks ActiveRate and FusionWorks IMS enable network operators with diverse networks to easily implement, manage, charge for, rate and bill sophisticated service – leading to enhanced profitability and quality of services.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and major offices in Washington, Singapore and Sao Paulo, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Additional information is available at www.openet.com.

“ActiveRate 5.1 further elevates the FusionWorks product line above the competition in terms of both functionality and performance,” said Michael Manzo, Vice President of Global Marketing. “This product enables tier one operators to increase ARPU and reduce churn, while decreasing operating costs by deploying a convergent, network edge rating solution.”

Some of the new capabilities and benefits to the Operator offered by ActiveRate 5.1 include:
- The easy creation pricing bundles which can be used by individuals or groups of users. Bundles can be created for any service or combination of services. For example – “$9.99 for 60 minutes of calls and 100 text messages”.

- The ability to demonstrate to customers how much they are saving by creating paired rating tables illustrating the customer plan against that of a competitor or previous price plan.

- Effective management of Special Days and Holiday Pricing through enhanced grouping thereby reducing configuration overhead and speeding up processing.

The 5.1 release enhances version 5.0 to provide a world-class fully configurable network edge real-time event rating engine. ActiveRate 5.1 is currently being deployed in three operators worldwide with a number of new deals lined up for the end of the year.

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a world-leading provider of Active OSS solutions that enable network operators to maximize the profitability of their network and services. Our products, FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks ActiveCharge, FusionWorks ActiveRate and FusionWorks IMS enable network operators with diverse networks to easily implement, manage, charge for, rate and bill sophisticated service – leading to enhanced profitability and quality of services.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and major offices in Washington, Singapore an Sao Paulo, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.

Additional information is available at www.openet.com

“Openet continues to lead the industry in defining charging and accounting solutions for all segments of the communications industry,” said Joe Hogan, CTO of Openet. “Our work with CableLabs reflects our proven expertise with IMS, in support of organizations such as 3GPP and IETF, and with the world’s largest and most progressive converged communication service providers worldwide who use Openet’s solutions for offline and online charging.”

The specification, which leverages key components of 3GPP’s IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) specification, builds upon Cable’s successful multi-service revenue growth strategy with the addition of flexible IMS compliant charging functions. PacketCable 2.0 enables a full range of emerging services based on SIP and Diameter in connection with existing Cable services, thereby extending Cable’s innovation through support of interactive communications, multiple simultaneous sessions, and personalized content delivery.

Openet Telecom’s convergent charging solutions enable accounting for existing cable services, delivered using circuit switched and PacketCable 1.x service platforms, in combination with full support for emerging protocols used with Cable’s next generation of connected communication services. The FusionWorks IMS solution integrates Openet’s offline charging product with any IMS compliant service delivery platforms used to support residential and commercial VoIP services. Enterprise and residential charging rules for all IP based multi-media services can now be configured in one convenient logical location on the network.

Openet Telecom’s Cable solutions enable operators to measure and charge subscribers based on discrete experiences delivered across all screens, from infotainment content and communication services designed for the residential living room to innovative mobile services that extend cable’s reach outside of the home. Combining the full range of revenue generation capabilities within a scalable transaction processing platform, Openet’s Cable solutions support subscription based, on demand, and advertising sponsored content and services, residential and commercial VoIP, interactive TV applications, targeted advertising, and fixed mobile convergence.

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a world-leading provider of Active OSS solutions that enable network operators to maximize the profitability of their network and services. Our products, FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks ActiveCharge, FusionWorks ActiveRate and FusionWorks IMS enable network operators with diverse networks to easily implement, manage, charge for, rate and bill sophisticated service – leading to enhanced profitability and quality of services.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and major offices in Washington, Singapore an Sao Paulo, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, Orange Group, StarHub, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.

Additional information is available at www.openet.com

The operator selected Openet as part of a broader initiative to deploy convergent OSS solutions. The Openet solution speeds time to market, increases potential revenue, and reduces the cost of deploying new services by enabling convergent charging and real-time rating across all services – pre- and post-paid, voice and data, content and transport – with a single software solution.

“The capability of the FusionWorksâ„¢ platform to deliver converged pre- and post-paid services with unrivalled flexibility and scalability was the key to winning this account,” said Philip Hogan , VP Sales and Alliances, EMEA and APAC, at Openet. “This new relationship expands Openet’s growing presence in Eastern Europe and builds on Openet’s vast success in 2006.”

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a world-leading provider of Active OSS solutions that enable network operators to maximise the profitability of their network and services. Our products, FusionWorksâ„¢ Mediation, FusionWorksâ„¢ ActiveCharge, FusionWorksâ„¢ ActiveRate and FusionWorksâ„¢ IMS enable network operators with diverse networks to easily implement, manage, charge for, rate and bill sophisticated services – leading to enhanced profitability and quality of service.

With headquarters in Dublin , Ireland and major offices in Washington , Singapore and Sao Paulo , Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. For more information, visit us at http://www.openet.com