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Subex advocates ‘sweating the fraud management asset’ to extract maximum returns on investments

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Subex Limited, a leading provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS / BSS) for communications service providers (CSPs) recently presented ideas for extracting the maximum efficiency from existing fraud management investments by CSPs, at the GSMA Fraud Forum held at Ascot, London, UK between January 26-28, 2010. At this forum, Subex presented on ‘Sweating the asset: How to get more from your fraud management system’. [Read more…]

cVidya Networks to Showcase its Extended Solution Portfolio at Mobile World Congress

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cVidya Networks, a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for communication media and entertainment service providers, will be showcasing their extended product portfolio at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Upon the acquisition of Ectel, the company’s product portfolio is now more extensive to include fraud management and marketing analytics solutions. cVidya will be exhibiting in Hall 4 level 1, stand 4.1HS01 at the IMA Premium Meeting Pavilion.

Recently, cVidya has finished the acquisition of ECtel LTD., a leading provider of Revenue Management solutions for communication service providers, in a cash transaction amounting to $21 million. The acquisition of ECtel places cVidya as the leading worldwide vendor in Revenue Management solutions, in terms of market share, revenues, installed base and product portfolio.

“Bringing ECtel into the family not only adds fraud management and product profitability analytics into the mix, it also boosts the scale of the business, making cVidya a one-stop shop for revenue intelligence solutions,” said Dan Baker, Research Director at Technology Research Institute (TRI).

“With the addition of fraud management and marketing analytics solutions to our product portfolio, cVidya is positioned as the global leader and the biggest provider of Integrated Revenue Intelligence solutions for communication, media and entertainment service provider,” said Alon Aginsky, President, CEO and Founder of cVidya. “With the acquisition of ECTel we are now servicing 132 telecom and media customers worldwide and employing 300 professionals in 18 global locations”.

Centralized Subscriber View in Real time

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Mobile network operators around the world are seeking for systems with real-time convergent capabilities, going far beyond those of traditional billing systems. Especially customer centric marketing capabilities are on top of operators’ wish lists. Meeting those needs, Orga Systems has added further features to its real-time convergent platform OPSC Gold. With its new multi-node real-time rating, Orga Systems’ OPSC Gold sets the benchmark for profitable customer-centric marketing management. The unique solution handles rating, charging and billing for all services, customer segments and payment methods within one unified rating and billing environment to meets operators’ needs. [Read more…]

Sun Servers Register Record Performance in Fraud Management System Benchmark Study

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Subex Limited, a major global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), has told OSS News Review that Sun Microsystems(TM) has achieved record performance in the Subex Nikira V7.0 Fraud Management System sizing and benchmarking study aimed to ascertain Call Detail Record (CDR) processing throughput with Sun servers. The benchmark performance report shows that Sun hardware was able to process one billion CDRs per day, the fullest performance on the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server using Nikira. [Read more…]

Amdocs Expands and Extends Managed Services Agreement with AT&T Services through 2017

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Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) has signed an agreement with AT&T Services Inc. to provide additional applications management services in support of AT&T’s Wireline customer care, billing, ordering and wholesale platforms beginning early spring of 2010. Amdocs extended agreements signed in 2007 under which it manages AT&T’s legacy consumer and wholesale platforms through 2017. [Read more…]

Meeting the Needs of a Bandwidth Hungry World

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By Cassandra Millhouse, Director of Product Marketing, Amdocs Cramer Division

The Connected World and what does it mean? The “connected world” reflects the hyper-growth in demand for ubiquitous connectivity, information anytime, anywhere and smarter connected devices; it’s predicted that in the next five years there will be trillions of devices that will be connected to the network. [Read more…]

cVidya Networks Completes Acquisition of ECtel

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cVidya Networks, a global leader and innovative provider of Telecom Revenue Assurance and Dealer Management products, has completed the acquisition of ECtel LTD., a leading provider of Integrated Revenue Management™ (IRM®) solutions for communication service providers, in a cash transaction amounting to $21 million. [Read more…]

Subex Launches NetProvision 6.1 Provisioning and Activation Solution

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Subex Limited, a leading global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), has launched NetProvision (NetP) 6.1, a multi-service, multi-technology, multi-vendor fulfillment solution used to automate the provisioning and activation of wireline connectivity services for Enterprise VPN and residential broadband services. NetP 6.1 allows service providers to eliminate the focus on vendor specific details by ensuring services are configured using consistent processes, irrespective of the vendor, technology or topology across the network infrastructure. [Read more…]

CHR Solutions Plays Key Role in SDN Communications’ ARRA BTOP Grant Award

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SDN Communications of Sioux Falls, SD has been awarded a grant from the National Telecommunication and Information Administration’s Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP). The program is one of the broadband initiatives created as part of the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The $20 million grant award is the result of a collaborative effort between SDN Communications and CHR Solutions, Inc., which assisted SDN in the grant application process. [Read more…]

Asian MNO Chooses Convergent Billing System from Orga Systems

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Leading Asian mobile network operator chooses Orga Systems’ convergent real-time rating, charging and billing system OPSC Gold. The system offers true prepaid/postpaid and service convergence, supporting mixed or hybrid payment methods. The unique combination of convergent real-time rating, charging and billing in one modular system provides the operator with many advantages for profitable and sustainable growth. [Read more…]

Telecom NZ’s Chorus Selects NetCracker’s Workforce Management Solution to Drive Automation

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NetCracker announced today that Chorus, Telecom New Zealand’s network business, will deploy NetCracker’s Workforce Management Solution to manage disparate parts of its operations. The solution will improve overall business process efficiencies, deliver a higher level of automation, and increase customer satisfaction. Chorus, a Telecom New Zealand business, builds and maintains the copper and fiber access network, and makes that network available to other telecommunications providers. Chorus is also responsible for installing and repairing phone and broadband connections. [Read more…]