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Lucent Technologies Selected by Telefonica to Increase Performance Management

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Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) has been selected by Telefonica of Spain to maximize the availability and responsiveness of Telefonica’s application servers and end-to-end performance of all network traffic (WiFi, LAN, etc.) using Lucent’s VitalSuite(R) Application Performance Management software.

“We chose Lucent’s VitalSuite(R) Application Performance Management software to significantly increase our overall network and application performance,” said Olegario Mendez, corporate network operations manager at Telefonica de Espana.

Lucent will provide Telefonica Sistemas — Telefonica’s IT department, which is responsible for managing Telefonica’s worldwide network — with VitalSuite(R) performance management agents that monitor key applications and system resources, which are key for millions of Telefonica’s business and consumer customers worldwide. Using software agents and scripts, Telefonica’s IT group will be able to increase the performance of its application servers and systems resources throughout its entire, global network. [Read more…]

Elitecore Technologies Changes Name of JISP Billing to Crestel Convergent Billing

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Elitecore Technologies has announced a change of name from JISP Billing to Crestel Convergent Billing. Crestel accurately depicts the end-to-end capabilities of the solution which are in tune with the market movement towards triple-play convergence.

“Crestel represents our core concept of building Scale with Margins in rapidly emerging economies like India and China,” says Nikhil Jain, President and COO, Elitecore Technologies, vendor of Crestel. “Considering the low penetration in these economies, operator concerns involve rapid scale rollouts while delivering high-end, value-added services simultaneously. This requires deep segmentation and high level of innovation at both ends,” he adds.

Crestel is based on a convergent billing framework, providing next generation triple-play services to wireline and wireless networks over a single platform. [Read more…]

NewMarket Technology VOIP Subsidiary XIPTEL Communications Launches Proprietary Decision Support Solution

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Newmarket Technology’s VoIP Subsidiary XIPTEL Communications has launched their proprietary solution for managing a company’s back office operations. XCCP, (Xiptel Customer Control Panel), the core component of XIPTEL’s intellectual property portfolio, has been running the back office functions for XIPTEL since January 2006, and is now available to selected customers.

“Customers can now get on-line access to incoming and outgoing calls whenever they want, from wherever they are,” said Peter Geddis, XIPTEL’s CEO. “Today’s VoIP based systems provide a long list of important features to customers,” said Geddis, “but unless access to useful information and control is made easy and reliable, many of those features will remain unused. Our XCCP system solves those problems, adds real value to our company, and helps set us apart from our competition. Offering new products and services, such as XCCP, is an integral step to building our revenue base to $10 million for this year and meeting our forecast for 100% growth in 2007.”

XCCP handles the back office tasks involved with subscriber management, provisioning, support ticketing, call detail reporting and mediation, and billing. The software features a multi-level security and permissions architecture to allow subscribers, customer administrators, resellers, and system billing, engineering, and executive users to view and manage those elements necessary for day to day operations and planning. [Read more…]

mBlox Selects Valista Payment Platform for Mobile Internet Billing and WAP Billing

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Valista (www.valista.com), the leading provider of payments and merchandizing solutions enabling the purchase of premium digital services, today announced that mBlox, the world’s largest mobile transaction network, is deploying Valista’s end-to-end transaction engine — PaymentsPlus. mBlox selected the payment platform after a close comparison of the world’s leading vendors and will use it to support its next generation mobile billing services, including WAP billing.

Andrew Bud, Executive Chairman of mBlox, said, “The evolution of premium SMS, an industry we lead, into the next generation of mobile content billing is a huge opportunity for us. We will be able to offer a wider range of innovative and effective payment services for our customers. The mobile content industry will be able to deliver and bill content including mobile TV, video clips, gaming and music downloads. We chose Valista’s technology because it is proven to be the best in the industry, and are pleased to be working with a company with a similar customer-focused ethos to ourselves.”

Valista’s PaymentsPlus solution enables mobile transaction network providers and telecommunications operators to adapt to the ever-changing dynamics of the global payments market by offering more flexible payment choices such as direct to mobile bill charging and WAP billing. [Read more…]

Elitecore Launches Convergent Billing Solution in Europe at Billing Systems 2006

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Elitecore Technologies has launched Crestel, its Convergent Billing Solution, in the European region through its participation in Billing Systems 2006. Formerly known as JISP Billing, Crestel is the carrier-grade billing, customer care, mediation and provisioning platform that enables next generation data, voice and video services over wireless and wireline networks.

“In the current highly evolutionary phase, operator success depends on a customer oriented approach rather than a technology-oriented one,” says Nikhil Jain, President and COO, Elitecore Technologies. “Crestel’s strength lies in its ability to build scale with margins, enhancing operator profitability and long-term stability.”

Crestel delivers scale with margins by facilitating convergence at the customer, OSS and BSS level, while enabling fine segmentation at the customer, service and geographic levels. The Western European Billing and OSS market is set to grow to nearly EUR1.4 billion by 2010, according to Analysys. Crestel aims to penetrate this market through a modular approach in addition to full systemic revamps. Crestel’s modular architecture delivers billing, customer care, mediation and provisioning, offering great flexibility and scalability to service providers. [Read more…]

Avea Selects Schema’s GSM Network Optimization Solution

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Schema, a global provider of network optimization software solutions, announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Avea, one of Turkey’s leading wireless operators. Under the agreement, Avea will deploy Schema’s GSM Forté, a highly advanced automatic RF optimization solution, to optimize the planning of network frequencies in major cities in order to increase network capacity and improve quality of service. This deal, which marks the first phase in Schema’s relationship with Avea, demonstrates the company’s further expansion into Europe and continued deployment of GSM Forté by major wireless operators worldwide. [Read more…]

Redline Communications Introduces RedMAX Management Suite for WiMAX Networks

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Redline Communications, a provider of standards-based wireless broadband equipment, today introduced the RedMAX™ Management Suite, enabling seamless integration and management of WiMAX technologies within operators’ core networks. By integrating the RedMAX Management Suite with their RedMAX network, operators can establish and manage a true carrier-class WiMAX network.

“The RedMAX Management Suite is a key differentiator for Redline and an important component of our RedPATH architecture roadmap,” said Edgar Masri, Chief Operating Officer, Redline Communications Inc. “Network management is a top priority for carriers that want to integrate WiMAX with their core networks and have the ability to expand and manage their networks as they grow and introduce new technologies based on the evolving WiMAX standards.”

The RedMAX Management Suite (RMS) is an element management system that enables broadband network operators to easily deploy, control, monitor and upgrade the Redline products in their network, acting as a gateway to the operators’ NMS and OSS and enabling full automation of operations The RMS is standards-based and platform independent to easily integrate with any IT infrastructure. [Read more…]

FROX Communication Joins the OSS through JavaT Initiative OSS/J

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FROX communication has joined the OSS through Java Initiative (OSS/J) to support the implementation of key OSS/J profiles. FROX communication is an independent software house focusing on the fields of service management, voice management, and system integration.

“With our longtime experience in system integration, we recognized the trend to standardization in the whole software industry very early,” says Andres Roethlisberger, Head of Engineering, FROX communication. “And it became clear to us that this will be extremely important especially for telecom companies, which is why FROX decided to be the first company in Switzerland to establish an OSS/J competence center.”

To reverse the growing complexity of OSS systems, service providers are pressing for options to proprietary, vendor-specific software solutions with pseudo de facto “standards” that limit technology choices. For this reason, increasing numbers of service providers have joined forces to support the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) New Generation OSS standard (NGOSS) of which OSS/J APIs and Design Guidelines are the first real-world implementation. OSS/J itself is an open and publicly available standard providing a proven approach which delivers significant benefits for all stakeholders along the value chain. [Read more…]

Comtrend Introduces a Telco-Grade Auto-Configuration Server for Standards Based TR-069 Management

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Comtrend Corporation has introduced their new Comtrend Auto-Configuration Server (ACS). The product will be officially unveiled during GlobalComm 2006, in Chicago June 4-8, exhibiter booth # 50088. This new Comtrend auto-configuration server provides automated provisioning, management and control of TR-069 compatible customer premise equipment.

Comtrend General Manager, Andrew Morton said, “The Comtrend ACS makes a self-install seem like magic to the consumer. Once the CPE links to the carrier’s network, everything automatically configures and the operator has complete control of the home user’s residential gateway. This product will greatly reduce maintenance costs associated with DSL deployments and significantly reduce truck-rolls. Unique to this market, the cost effective Comtrend ACS is a true Telco-Grade, OSS centric solution.”

The Comtrend ACS is designed to interface with all DSL Forum TR-069 compatible customer premise equipment (CPE) products. The Comtrend ACS will provide telecom service providers with abilities such as: remote CPE WAN Management, secure auto-configuration, dynamic service provisioning, remote firmware management, view status and performance monitoring. [Read more…]

NTG Clarity Networks Provides PPL Telcom with Management Software

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NTG Clarity Networks Inc., (TSX VENTURE:NCI) a leader in delivering network, IT and infrastructure solutions, today announced that it will supply PPL Telcom, a regional facilities-based carrier offering transport services to carriers, ISPs and large enterprise customers, its integrated operations support system (OSS) software. The OSS will manage customer orders, network inventory, service provisioning and trouble ticketing.

“NTG is proud to add PPL Telcom to its list of customers,” said NTG Clarity CEO Ashraf Zaghloul. “NTG’s software solutions have been developed to meet the needs of next generation service providers and new wire and mobile carriers. Our software and services enable customers to achieve increased productivity, faster execution and innovative capability, making us an excellent fit with the new breed of telecom service provider.”

The latest version of NTG Clarity’s OSS product, NTS, utilizes the latest technology and provides an integrated suite of applications to enable customer information management, order management, network inventory maintenance, capacity management, service provisioning, service management, billing and customer relation management (CRM) and trouble ticketing. [Read more…]

Research and Markets Adds Fast Dynamics of Japanese Telecom Market to Offering

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According to Research and Markets, the Japanese telecom market faces fiercer competition and a broadened spectrum of services–and the market will experience even faster convergence with other industries. Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c37504) has announced the addition of Fast Dynamics of Japanese Telecom Market to their offering.

In the report, the author identified ten most noticeable topics of Japanese mobile communication market, which is leading mobile convergence in the world. For that, the author analyzed the emerging trends in policies, players, technologies and services. As the leader of the mobile industry, Japanese market will serve as an indicator to help all mobile service providers and related companies around the world to predict future directions of the industry. [Read more…]

telSPACE Selects Smartpath Solution by Trilibis Mobile

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telSPACE , an innovative provider of multi-service billing, rating, and customer care software solutions for the MVNO industry, today announced its selection of the SmartPathTM solution by Trilibis Mobile. This choice will accelerate telSPACE’s plan to offer data services that will dramatically enhance the customer’s experience with their mobile phones. These applications will work hand in hand with its data strategy launch powered by Wireless Services Corporation.

Paris Holt, telSPACE’s Chief Executive says, “The final piece to the puzzle has been put in place and we have now started development on what we believe will be the most comprehensive suite of cellular phone applications ever assembled. Each of our 27 MVNO clients will be able to customize this phone based application to fit their exact target demographic. Our goal is to revolutionize the way our MVNOs are positioned in the marketplace and provide customers with so much more functionality and utility than they have today.”

telSPACE has created a system that allows any company to add communications to their product line and become an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). The system comprises a comprehensive back office network, including all operations functions such as customer activation, carrier procurement, fulfillment, billing and rating, MIS reporting, customer service and soon data all integrated into one ubiquitous operating platform. telSPACE effectively uses the internet to automate the complex customer acquisition process, thereby allowing its clients to instantly penetrate new markets or expand service offerings. [Read more…]

GN Combines Industry-Leading Jabra and GN Netcom Brands to Create the World’s Largest Headset Company

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GN, parent company of GN Mobile and GN Netcom, announced they are combining their two headset businesses to create the world’s largest manufacturer of headsets for hands-free communication such as the popular GN 9350, the GN 9330, and the GN 9330 USB. The new business will employ about 1,800 people and expects revenues for 2006 of approx. DKK 2.7bn (US$450 million) in the former GN Mobile and at least DKK 1.8bn (US$300 million) in the former GN Netcom.

“Some years ago, we set out our vision for the future; one in which everyone will be using wireless headsets whether they’re in the office, at home or on the move,” said Hans Henrik Lund, president of the new headset business. “Today’s announcement is part of the changes we are implementing in order to make our vision a reality.”

As the leading innovators in the global headset industry, GN Netcom and GN Mobile have developed and launched some of the most successful products in the history of the wireless headset market, including the widely popular Jabra mobile headsets and GN Netcom office headset solutions. Both brands are distributed through 90,000 sales channels worldwide, including carriers and system integrators as well as leading consumer electronics chains and mobile phone specialists. Joining forces will enable the new company to sustain high growth and innovation leadership. [Read more…]

Veramark Announces First Quarter Results

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Veramark Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VERA) announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006. For the three months ended March 31 Veramark reported sales of $2,444,000 which compared with sales of $2,626,000 for the first quarter of 2005. Veramark reported a net loss of $57,000, or $0.01 per share, a slight improvement from a net loss of $85,000, also $0.01 per share, reported for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005.

Veramark’s President and Chief Executive Officer, David G. Mazzella, commenting on the results stated,

“Though first quarter results did not meet our expectations, revenues generated from VeraSMART, our enterprise level product increased 20% in the first quarter of 2006 versus the prior year. Secondly, orders booked for the first quarter were 14% higher than for the same quarter of 2005. The first quarter has historically been Veramark’s weakest quarter in terms of orders booked.”

Mr. Mazzella stated further, “During the first quarter we recruited additional marketing and sales personnel. We added six new sales people, including a new Director of Business Development and Marketing and a new Director of International Business Development, both of whom previously were employed by major competitors. Both bring valuable experience and market expertise to Veramark.” [Read more…]

Ecosystem of OSS Through JavaT OSS/J Referenced Components Growing Rapidly

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An ecosystem of OSS through JavaT Initiative (OSS/J) Referenced Components has grown rapidly, it was announced today. The speed at which OSS/J Referenced Components are proliferating attests to the widespread adoption of OSS/J solutions by leading suppliers of telecommunications software solutions. Referenced Components are software components or products that use or implement parts or entire OSS/J APIs. They make it faster and easier to implement end-to-end solutions supporting the delivery of new products. Many OSS/J Referenced Components are expected to evolve to OSS/J Certified Products.

An advanced implementation of the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) New Generation OSS (NGOSS) architectural standard, OSS/J APIs map closely to the TMF’s Enhanced Telecommunications Operations Map (eTOM). The APIs are based on the Core Business Entity (CBE) model, which is aligned with the TMF’s Shared Information Definition (SID), a widely recognized telco data sharing model. OSS/J’s close alignment with TMF – the dominant standards body in the telecommunications OSS area – and OSS/J’s pragmatic approach to implementation – add up to a powerful, implementable OSS standard. [Read more…]

Rapid Link Signs Agreement to Acquire Telenational Communications

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Rapid Link, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: RPID.OB), one of the leading providers of Internet Phone services to niche markets like the military, today announced signing of the definitive Stock Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of Telenational Communications, Inc. The closing of the Telenational transaction is contingent upon Rapid Link’s receipt of necessary financing to complete the acquisition. The Company is working with a well-known investment banking firm to assist it in the fundraising process and has been in ongoing discussions with a number of potential investors. Rapid Link remains confident that it will secure the necessary financing on terms that are acceptable to it within the time period required to consummate the Telenational transaction.

“We are very excited to have cleared all of the major hurdles in finalizing this acquisition,” stated John Jenkins, CEO of Rapid Link. “We can now focus on closing the financing and combining the two entities. Telenational has consistently been net income positive over the past few years which will significantly improve our bottom line going forward.”

“Operationally, this is an ideal fit bringing together two competitors who both have expertise serving military personnel. We are able to further support that strengthened position with the availability of better products through Rapid Link’s new Sysmaster VOIP system,” commented Chris Canfield, President of Telenational. “I am very excited about the future of our new combined Company, and I believe that we will be recognized as one of the premier VOIP companies specializing in niche market opportunities.” [Read more…]

Helio Mobile Service Launched

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HELIO LLC, a new mobile service designed for young, connected consumers, has announced its immediate nationwide availability through helio.com, 888-88-HELIO and through approximately 1,000 retail locations by the end of May.

“Helio is custom-built for the lifestyle of young people who have their mobile device at the center of their universe,” said Sky Dayton, CEO HELIO LLC. “Mobile devices are with us all the time and they shouldn’t be limited to making calls, sending text messages and downloading content. With Helio, mobile is about staying connected in innovative ways where sharing your world includes content like videos and games, or unique personalization that you know your friends will love. These are things that have been happening on the Internet for years, but haven’t been taken mobile – until now.”

Helio’s service leverages the power of 3G plus the multimedia features of its exclusive launch devices – Hero and Kickflip™ – to give its members unique community features like MySpace on Helio, gifting and begging of content, group picture and video messaging, and dynamic news feeds to keep them connected to friends and information in new, unique ways. [Read more…]

Schema Announces Agreement for Transport Network Optimization with Major North American Wireless Service Provider

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Schema, a global provider of network optimization software solutions, announced today that it signed a multi-million dollar agreement providing transport network optimization to a major North American wireless service provider. According to the agreement, Schema will provide the operator with an enterprise license which will enable the carrier to optimize their entire transport network across the United States, resulting in significant OpEx reductions. [Read more…]

ASCOM Joins OSS/J to Help Support the Further Adoption of OSS/J Standards

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Ascom’s business unit Systems and Solutions, with offices in Germany and Switzerland, has joined the OSS through Java™ Initiative to develop real-world case studies and technical deployment white papers related to the OSS/J Trouble Ticket API (JCP 91). Ascom is an international supplier of sophisticated communication solutions. [Read more…]

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