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Berg Insight Expects Mobile Networks To Connect 186 Million Machines in 2012 A new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight indicates that the number of cellular network connections used for machine-to-machine communication will grow from 37.5 million connections in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.9 percent to 186 million connections in 2012. Currently, GSM and legacy technologies dominate the market and accounted for about 71 percent of the total number of active connections at the end of 2007. The second largest technology, CDMA, has a strong foothold in North America and parts of Asia-Pacific. So far, WCDMA has been primary adopted for machine-to-machine applications in Japan....
AMCC’s Pemaquid Implementations Increase Movement to Cost-Effective Carrier Ethernet Services by Metro and Long-Haul Networks Customer design activity gets hot, as volume production and fastest design-in rate in company history is achieved by 10GbE Metro-Ethernet Mapper Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) announced today it shipped several thousand units of its Pemaquid/S19258 10-Gigabit Metro-Ethernet Mapper device to more than 20 customers since the product’s January 2008 launch. The chip is achieving the fastest design-in rate of any transport integrated circuit in the company’s history. The rapid adoption of this new device is being driven by the large increases in Internet traffic and the need by telecommunication service providers and equipment vendors to cost-effectively transport Ethernet traffic...
New SILVX Offering from Sycamore Networks to Enhance Service Management in Metro and Regional Networks Simplified Provisioning, Reduced Costs, and Improved Partitioning Views for Ease of Multi-Layer Service Management is offered by the SilvxManager® for Windows and Layered Services Management Tools Announcing the SilvxManager for Windows and Layered Services Management features, Sycamore Networks, Inc. today explained that the new product would augment its recently introduced SN 9000 Intelligent Multi-service Switch. The new offering was designed to assist network operators reduce costs and complexity, enhance the management of diverse services, and improve overall operational efficiencies in metro and regional multi-service networks. Both SilvxManager for Windows and Layered Services Management leverage Sycamore’s embedded ASON/GMPLS control plane intelligence...
Syndesis Revolutionizes Service Delivery Management - Launches Syndesis Express Syndesis, a worldwide leader in Convergent Service Delivery Management (CSDM) solutions, today unveiled Syndesis® Express™, a new group of fulfillment products to power rapid service definition, integrated service design and activation across connectivity, applications and device, and real-time subscriber self-management. The Syndesis Express fulfillment suite provides an integrated view of the subscriber, making it possible for carriers around the world to rapidly launch and automate fulfillment of new services without the costly upgrade or replacement of existing systems such as inventory. "As CSPs introduce new mobile and residential broadband services their customers demand easy, rapid service activation. As a result,...
Telrad Networks Introduces Upgrade from Legacy to Triple-Play Networks with MultiService Access Gateway The TL6500, a MultiService Access Gateway (MSAG) for service providers looking to make the migration from legacy systems to triple-play networks of voice, video, and data, was released by Telrad Networks. Supporting a wide range of user interfaces, the TL6500 support includes ADSL2+, VDSL, G.SHDSL, Fast Ethernet, POTS and ISDN as well as Giga Ethernet uplink. Outdoor and Central Office applications of single or multiple shelves, depending on the required capacity is possible with this robust and scalable solution. Rebecca Rachmany, Director of Marketing for Telrad Networks, said, “Operators recognize their access solutions need to provide a wide range of...
MetaSolv Ranked #1 in OSS Observer OSS Industry Report MetaSolv Software, Inc., a global leader in comprehensive operational support system solutions for next-generation communications service providers, today announced that the latest report from OSS Observer, a leading OSS market research firm, has named MetaSolv as the market leader in service activation. MetaSolv was ranked 2nd in service fulfillment and placed 3rd in inventory management. “MetaSolv is the clear market leader in service activation and a leader in service fulfillment generally,” said Larry Goldman, Co-founder and Senior Analyst, OSS Observer. “Operators worldwide are selecting MetaSolv to enable their network transformation as they launch next-generation mobile and broadband services.” The OSS...
Axiom Systems Introduces Integrated IPVPN Solution for Juniper Networks Axiom Systems, the leader in Service Fulfillment software for Communication Service Providers, today announced the introduction of AXIOSS(R) for IPVPN for Juniper Networks, a packaged solution that speeds the creation, configuration and management of secure virtual private networks over Juniper Networks routing platforms. "Manually delivering and tracking new services is time-consuming and can become a cost burden for Service Providers as their networks grow and configurations become more complex. AXIOSS for IPVPN automates many of the complex workflow processes, inventory modes and interfaces involved in provisioning a new IPVPN service, so that it is much more cost effective to roll...
ECtel Demonstrates Industry Leading Performance for a Revenue Assurance Solution on Sun Platforms Running Solaris 10 ECtel Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECTX), a leading provider of Integrated Revenue Managementâ„¢ (IRMâ„¢) solutions, has announced that in a series of benchmark tests conducted in cooperation with Sun Microsystems its Revenue Assurance product RAP and IRMâ„¢ Product Framework have demonstrated industry leading performance and scalability, handling throughput of 2.2 billion transactions per day. The new level of application performance set by this benchmark will enable very large communication service providers to achieve enterprise-wide revenue assurance. The test environment simulated high-end production conditions with a representative configuration of a revenue assurance system. Depending on the various configurations tested, RAP processed up to...
Aztek Networks Selects Adivent for European Telecom Market Expansion’s Sales Outsourcing Support Aztek's network migration hardware's market and sales opportunities to be enhanced Adivent signed Aztek Networks as a new customer for its SalesTargetWatch services. Aztek, contracted with Adivent to conduct in-depth market and sales analysis as a first step toward expanding sales efforts into the European telecom arena. "Having spent the majority of my career building start-ups within the telecom industry, I know the European market offers both great opportunity and significant challenges," said Steven Bruny, president and CEO at Aztek. "With Adivent, we can take an incremental, fact-based approach to expansion that previously was very hard to accomplish and extremely...
Advanced Technologies & Services Develops Siemens EWSD Module for SimCall Advanced Technologies & Services, Inc, a supplier of Revenue Assurance solutions for communications providers, has completed the development of a Siemens EWSD module for their SimCall revenue assurance tool. ATS’ flagship product, SimCall, is the industry’s leading tool to ensure network integrity by validating the accuracy of switch translations. The tool is unique in that it simulates every dialing combination possible in a fraction of the time it would take to generate such calls. The call simulations are also done off-line so there is absolutely no strain on the switch being tested. Just last year ATS recovered over $50m in...