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Advanced Technologies & Services, Inc. Unveiled Revenue Assurance 2.0 at Billing & OSS World Conference

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Advanced Technologies & Services, Inc. (ATS) recently made a presentation about Revenue Assurance 2.0 at the Billing & OSS World Conference in Chicago , IL. ATS’ President Randall Guthrie presented to a capacity audience about creating the Revenue Operations Center (ROC) of the future and how Revenue Assurance groups at telecom operators played a critical role in its success. The evolution of Revenue Assurance has been a key topic recently throughout the telecom industry. [Read more…]

TTI Telecom Announces Netrac Studio 3

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OSS implementation environment to simplify network management and accelerates time to support new services and network technologies

TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. announced the launch of their Netrac Studio 3. This new solution gives network operators a single platform providing centralized control over the entire process and life cycle of data collection and processing for service assurance. The Studio merges the functionality of Mediation, Fault, Performance, and Service management under a single interface. [Read more…]

Sonus Networks and Tata Communications Unveil Strategic Plan for Global IP-Voice Network

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Tata Communications’ global voice network to be migrated by Sonus Networks

Tata Communications and Sonus Networks, Inc. unveiled plans for the strategic expansion of Tata Communications’ global voice network. The Tata Communications’ global voice network expansion represents further execution of the Company’s mission to expand its global reach and ability to deliver IP-leveraged communications solutions to businesses and consumers worldwide. Tata Communications will, also, deploy Sonus’ Network Border Switch to interconnect its disparate voice networks and deliver seamless IP services across geographies. [Read more…]

Subex CTO to Serve as TM Forum Advisory Director

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The firm continues its active support of TM Forum

Subex Limited announced that Mark Nicholson, CTO and technical visionary for Subex and its complete family of Fulfillment and Assurance and Revenue Management solutions, will serve as an Advisory Director for TM Forum. Mr. Nicholson will share his extensive OSS expertise to help enrich the decisions and direction of the organization. [Read more…]

Sonus Networks Reported First Qtr 2008 Financials

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Year-Over-Year Quarterly Growth and Increased Profitability Announced by Industry Leader

Sonus Networks, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter, which ended 31 March 2008.

Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 were $74.0 million, compared with $97.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 and $71.1 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2007. Net income on a GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2008 was $0.6 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $14.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2007, and a GAAP net loss of $4.0 million, or $0.02 per share, for the first quarter of 2007. [Read more…]

Aperto Networks’ PacketMax Solution Certified for Republic of Ukraine’s 5 GHZ Band

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Aperto® Networks announced that its 5 GHz WiMAX solution has been certified for use in the Republic of Ukraine. This certification applies to the entire line of award-winning WiMAX Forum Certified PacketMAX® base stations, including the PM 5000 macro base station and the PM 3000 micro base station, as well as the PM 3xx series and PM 1xx series of subscriber units. [Read more…]

Subex and Accenture Selected by Telecom Argentina to Ensure Delivery of Next-Generation Services

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Subex Ltd and Accenture have implemented the first phase of a multi-technology activation solution for Telecom Argentina.

The solution will help ensure IP services dominance, enable rapid delivery of Ethernet-based services and accelerate growth in broadband. Leveraging Subex’s Service Fulfillment platform, the three-phase, multi-million dollar project is the main component of an ambitious transformation strategy being undertaken by Telecom Argentina. The first phase, which went live in April 2007, provides Telecom Argentina flow-through provisioning of their IP-VPN services and facilitates the assurance processes. [Read more…]

Cypress Communications’ Hosted VoIP Solution Selected by Octapharma USA

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Cypress Communications’ solution selected for its cost advantage and mobility capabilities

Octapharma, a worldwide pharmaceutical company that makes life-saving drugs derived from plasma, selected Cypress Communications’ for its new USA headquarters because of the solution’s mobility capabilities and cost advantage over upgrading their current premises-based system. [Read more…]

Tango Telecom’s SMS Advertising Solution Unveiled at Global Messaging Congress in Cannes

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Tango Telecom has announced the launch of its revolutionary SMS Advertising platform, iAX™ SMS Advertising, at the Global Messaging Congress 2008 in Cannes.

Built on the proven iAX™ Platform, iAX™ SMS Advertising is designed to deliver targeted and relevant SMS advertising to mobile subscribers in a variety of ways such as via peer to peer messaging or inserted in sponsored SMS delivery reports. The solution also provides detailed reporting and tracking for operators and advertisers as well as advanced opt-in and opt-out functionality for subscribers. [Read more…]

Berg Insight Expects Mobile Networks To Connect 186 Million Machines in 2012

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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 [Read more…]

Tribold Expects A Busy TM Forum Management World 2008

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Exhibiting, speaking, demonstrating, and firm on an award’s short list

The TM Forum Management World event has grown over recent years to become the must attend event for the BSS/OSS industry. Similarly, Tribold has increased its activity at the event. This event will be held May 18th-22nd in Nice, France. Tribold will be exhibiting, both speaking at and chairing conference sessions, participating in Catalyst Program demonstrations, and waiting with anticipation for the results of the TM Forum Excellence Awards. [Read more…]

WeDo Technologies and belerofon Sign Partnership Agreement

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WeDo Technologies announced the establishment of a partnership agreement with belerofon, a German company, the Revenue Recovery leader in profits optimization.

This agreement is part of WeDo’s Partner Program, which has been designed around the needs of the partners and aims at helping those delivering market-leading solutions to their customers. By doing so, WeDo technologies provides each partner with superior business opportunities, marketing support, incentives, special offers, and training. [Read more…]

NetMotion Wireless Improves Network Security For Mobile Workers and IT Administrators

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Firm releases Mobility XE 8.0 with Mobile Network Access Control features and optimization for wireless VoIP and Video

NetMotion Wireless released version 8.0 of Mobility XE (TM), the company’s award-winning mobile virtual private network (VPN) software. This latest version provides new security controls that intelligently extend corporate security policies to mobile devices without needlessly impacting mobile worker productivity. In addition, enterprise customers can now use the software to reliably deploy real-time applications like Voice over IP (VoIP) and streaming video while maintaining high quality, even over wireless networks prone to high packet loss. [Read more…]

ECtel Announces 83 percent YoY Revenues Increase with Continued Order Creation During First Quarter 2008

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First Quarter 2008 Financial Results Highlights

*** Revenues up 83% YoY to $6.5 million; slightly less than same quarter of 2007 given industry-wide seasonality.

*** Gross margin of 44%; down sequentially from previous quarter following weaker US dollar and two strategic, yet lower margin, projects.

*** Continued strong order generation with book-to-bill over one. [Read more…]

ECtel IRM Market Position Expected to be Strengthened with Acquisition of Compwise Assets

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Approximate $1.3m deal to increase ECtel’s ability to address revenue and profit margin management for communication service providers

ECtel Ltd announced today that it acquired substantially all assets of Israel-based Compwise, a provider of business analytic solutions for telecommunication operators, for approximately $1.3 million. [Read more…]

Nuance Teamed With Genesys Will Deliver World-Class, On-Demand Self Service Solutions for Enterprises

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An Extension of Nuance’s On Demand Network Will be Offered as Genesys Voice Platform by the New Partnership

Nuance Communications, Inc. announced a partnership with Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories to integrate the Genesys Voice Platform (GVP) into Nuance’s industry-leading On Demand Network.

Through this relationship, enterprises can gain access to the leading Genesys Voice Platform in a highly scalable and reliable hosted call center solution that enables their consumers to effortlessly get help, make purchases and save time. As part of the agreement between the companies, Nuance will combine the power of the Nuance On Demand carrier-grade VoiceXML hosting network with the Genesys Voice Platform as one of its preferred partners for delivering state-of-the-art self service interactions in a secure hosted environment. [Read more…]