Cartesian, a leading independent technical consulting and IT services company (a wholly owned subsidiary of TMNG Global (Nasdaq: TMNG)), together with DigitalRoute, the leading provider of embedded and standalone mediation and data integration software, have signed a contract with Unitymedia, Europe’s third largest cable-based media and communications services provider based in Cologne, Germany, for the implementation of a turnkey mediation system (DigitalRoute’s MediationZone) coupled with relevant revenue assurance tools (Cartesian’s Ascertain).
Unitymedia selected DigitalRoute’s MediationZone for its flexible architecture, ease of deployment and ease-of-use. MediationZone is replacing a legacy mediation system and will form a horizontal data integration layer across all of Unitymedia’s network technologies and services. The systematic monitoring of usage information through the Ascertain revenue assurance tools will provide the required certainty of data, system and process integrity.
“We are impressed with DigitalRoute’s MediationZone providing advanced off-the-shelf mediation functionality and Cartesian’s Ascertain revenue assurance tool providing a continuous audit trail”, said Kamran Ziaee, Vice President Information Systems at Unitymedia, “The combination of MediationZone, Ascertain and Cartesian’s proven domain competence were significant factors in our decision making
process”, he adds.
“The respective positioning of DigitalRoute and Cartesian is 100% complementary bringing together a world-class data integration platform with revenue assurance capabilities, strong system integration knowledge and domain expertise”, said Dr. Janos Sivo, Managing Director at Cartesian.“The fact that the fast growing cable-based media and communications services provider Unitymedia chooses DigitalRoute’s MediationZone as the single mediation platform in open competition provides a proof point for our technological superiority and attractiveness of our value proposal. We are looking forward to the long term contribution we can make to help Unitymedia achieving their business targets”, said Jan Karlsson, Chief Executive Officer at DigitalRoute.
About Cartesian, a TMNG Global Company
Cartesian, a TMNG Global company, is an independent technical consulting and software development company, delivering products and services to the telecoms industry. Cartesian’s expertise covers networks, engineering, and technology, through to revenue assurance and billing. Ascertain is Cartesian’s widely-deployed suite of software tools which address the revenue assurance, data integrity and provisioning needs of telecoms operators. More information on Cartesian can be found at http://www.cartesian.co.uk.
About Digital Route AB
DigitalRoute was founded in 2000 to provide best-of-breed mediation to telecom network and service providers worldwide. DigitalRoute’s MediationZone supports any combination of offline and online/active/bi-directional mediation of voice, data and content services, with carrier-grade functionality and unparalleled flexibility. There are more than 110 MediationZone deployments across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. More information on Digital Route can be found at http://www.digitalroute.com.
About Unitymedia
Unitymedia is Europe’s third largest cable-based media and communications services provider and the first truly integrated cable network in Germany. Headquartered in Cologne, it operates in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, the most densely populated regions of Germany which produce about one third of Germany’s GDP. In addition to analogue cable services, Unitymedia is a leading provider of integrated triple play services, driving subscriber growth across digital television, broadband Internet and Telephony. As of 31 December 2008, Unitymedia had approximately 4.6 million basic cable subscribers, 568k Digital TV Pay revenue generating units (RGUs), 630k Internet RGUs and 363k Telephony RGUs. More information on Unitymedia can be found at http://www.unitymedia.de.