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VOSS Named as Cool Vendor in Unified Communications

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VOSS, a leader in unified communications (UC) service delivery software, has been named by global analyst organization Gartner, as a Cool Vendor in UC for 2009. VOSS develops solutions for businesses with complex UC and IP telephony delivery requirements; ensuring customers are able to fully benefit from next generation UC. [Read more…]

BT Selects Fanfare As Key Component Of Its Strategic Platform For Automating Network Testing

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Fanfare, delivering innovative testing solutions to service providers (SPs), network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and enterprises, has recently announced that BT has chosen Fanfare’s iTest®, the company’s flagship test automation product, as a key component of the strategic testing platform it is putting in place to automate complex system testing. BT will deploy iTest in an enterprise-wide initiative to standardize the communication of test assets across the company, as well as between BT and its suppliers. [Read more…]

Tyco Telecommunications Successfully Transmits 40 Gigabits Per Second Signal From Japan to USA

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Tyco Telecommunications, a business unit of Tyco Electronics and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, has successfully transmitted a signal at 40 Gigabits per second from Japan to the USA. The test was conducted using dark fibers on the existing Tata Communications TGN-Pacific submarine cable system that links Tokyo to multiple USA West Coast city PoPs.

The data was carried from Toyohashi, Japan to Los Angeles without the need for regeneration. The demonstration marks the next step in the ongoing progression of undersea cable data rates and will ultimately enable such undersea cable systems to carry more capacity over existing links. [Read more…]

Clarity Celebrates 15th Anniversary

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Clarity, the market leader in Unified Operational Support Systems (OSS), celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this month. Its founder, Tony Kalcina, looks back at Clarity’s success and forward to see where the OSS industry will be in another fifteen years. [Read more…]

Traffix Systems Introduces Full LTE Support

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Traffix Systems, the Next Generation Control Plane and Diameter expert, has announced the addition of Long Term Evolution (LTE) Diameter support across its product portfolio.

Traffix provides Next Generation Control Plane and Diameter solutions that enable to bridge NGN and Legacy networks and to connect network functionality across different wireline and wireless technologies. [Read more…]

Saudi Telecom Chooses Volubill for Real-Time Charging Control

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Volubill, a leading supplier of real-time charging and control applications for data services, recently announced that Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has selected Volubill’s CHARGE-IT™ Dynamic Charging Platform for active mediation and rating of its new fixed-line xDSL Internet service. The CHARGE-IT solution will provide STC with increased organizational and orchestration abilities to better manage charging policies for a growing portfolio of services packages across a complex array of network systems. It will also allow the operator to more effectively market its offerings to a growing subscriber base. [Read more…]

Astellia Releases 2008 Financial Results

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Astellia, leading provider of monitoring solutions to maximize Quality of Service (QoS) management and performance of mobile networks, has announced turnover of 24.98 M€ for 2008, an annual increase of 20%. The net profit ratio is 13% and this provides support for foreign investments aimed at speeding up international expansion (+49%). The net result has progressed by 15%. [Read more…]

Comarch Opens Office in Finland

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The latest investment of the Comarch Group is the development of a long-term strategy focusing on acquiring new customers in the Nordic region and broadening worldwide activity. [Read more…]

Theta Networks and Syrus Systems form Partnership in Russia

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Theta Networks is partnering with Syrus Systems, a leader in mobile solutions headquartered in Russia. The partnership’s goal is to spread Theta Network developed mobile solutions across Russia and other CIS countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) through Syrus Systems’ wealth of market knowledge and its well established regional presence. [Read more…]

Australia’s buroserv Chooses Infonova BSS R6

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Infonova, a leading european BSS vendor and buroserv, an Australian managed services company for telcos, recently announced that they have recently signed an agreement to implement Infonova’s multi tenant BSS platform to provide specialized white label back-office and front office solutions to the telecommunications industry. [Read more…]

BSkyB Integrates ConceptWave’s Catalog Management Product to Accelerate Convergent Service Delivery

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ConceptWave Software Inc., a leading provider of order automation and catalog management solutions, has announced BSkyB (Sky) in the UK as a new customer. ConceptWave® will enable Sky’s strategic initiative to streamline its sales and fulfillment process, reducing time-to-market and cost-of-sale of convergent services offerings including Internet, telephony and television. [Read more…]

Intec Receives Award in China for Convergent Mediation Solution

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Intec, a global provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), has been recently awarded the prestigious ‘Best Convergent Mediation Product’ honour for its Inter-mediatE product, from Billing China (www.billingchina.com), China’s leading BSS/OSS media outlet. This is the third consecutive year Intec has won the award. [Read more…]