As part of a large-scale move to new offices in the City of London, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has chosen the latest communication recording technology from Activa Solutions. The system is a fully integrated Veritel Pro VOIP and digital combined voice recording platform, capturing calls and call data from 960 Cisco IP extensions over 4 floors, plus 270 IPC trading turret inputs on the global trading floor. [Read more…]

Dexterra, Inc., the fastest-growing mobile business platform and applications company worldwide, has been selected by the NRG Group – a global leader in document management solutions – through its Nashuatec, Rex-Rotary, and Gestetner sales brands, to supply the Dexterra Concertä mobile business platform and its TransApp(tm) Field Service application to manage up to 2,500 field engineers across Europe. [Read more…]

Kirusa, a leading developer of value added mobile services, has acquired all of the intellectual property assets of US-based HeyAnita Inc., including all software, patent applications, and trademarks. The purchased software, which includes the Rapid Messaging Sevice (RMS) application, HeyAnita’s variant of Voice SMS, further consolidates Kirusa’s leadership in Voice SMS. [Read more…]

Subex Azure Ltd, a leading vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, has appointed Ms. Sudha Madhavan as Chief Financial Officer. Sudha is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Cost and Works Accountant,Company Secretary, and a Bachelor of Law. She has over 18 years of experience in Finance and Business Development and has been part of senior management teams of leading businesses for almost 10 years. [Read more…]

JDSU has signed an agreement to purchase Casabyte Inc., a provider of service quality monitoring solutions for mobile network operators. JDSU is a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. JDSU expects to complete the acquisition of Casabyte in the current fiscal third quarter ending March 31, 2007. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. [Read more…]

CyberTel Capital Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: CBCL – News), has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to acquire the switching and billing business from Global Vision Telecom, Inc. (“GVT”). GVT was started by telecom veterans to provide an improved platform for managing long distance and other types of calling services. [Read more…]

Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: TLGD – News), a leader in the communications test and management industry, was awarded, through in-country partnerships, two significant international projects to supply its multi- layered testing solutions for country-wide networks. These awards follow extensive competitive technical reviews and include a full suite of Tollgrade’s DigiTest® test hardware and LoopCare(TM) software for comprehensive testing of IP triple-play services in advanced DSL access networks. [Read more…]

AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASIA – News), a provider of telecom software solutions and IT security products and services, has entered into an agreement to build China Mobile’s content billing system located at their headquarters. [Read more…]

LogicaCMG has extended its existing strategic partnership with InBev, the world’s largest brewer by volume, to deliver application management services across 17 countries. This extends the original EUR70 million contract LogicaCMG was awarded in June 2006 to manage InBev’s applications across eight countries in Western Europe into Central and Eastern Europe. [Read more…]

Kirusa, a leading developer of value added mobile services, further consolidated its technology leadership position in mobile value added services by announcing that it has been granted a patent “Synchronization Among Plural Browsers” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent has particular impact on multimodal value added services for mobile networks. [Read more…]

BT is launching its 21C Global Venture (21C GV), a business unit that will enable the delivery of next-generation networks to communication providers across the globe. The 21C Global Venture has been created to bring together the unique experiences BT has gained in developing its 21st Century Network, widely regarded as the world’s most advanced next generation network. [Read more…]

SCi, an independent, UK based sales outsourcing company is delivering significant results for new entrants to the UK market looking to establish a presence. One of these new entrants is Irish telecoms company eircom, the principal provider of fixed-line telecommunications services in Ireland. It has been outsourcing an element of its sales process to SCi in the UK since February 2006 and has to date seen significant results in the growth of its business in the region, including a pipeline of €1m. [Read more…]

CA (NYSE: CA) has announced that its industry-leading enterprise application management solutions, Wily Introscope and Wily Customer Experience Manager (CEM), have been selected to provide real-time performance monitoring for the Accelerated VoIP and IMS Services (AVIS) Catalyst Project. [Read more…]

Rosbank, one of the top 10 retail and corporate banks in Russia, has selected NexusINFORMER from Nexus Telecom to monitor the traffic on its ATM network. Once again, Nexus Telecom proves its unique competencies for real-time performance monitoring and reporting solutions, enabling carriers and enterprises to offer carrier-class services to their end users. [Read more…]

Subex Azure, the world’s largest vendor of revenue maximization solutions for telecom operators, is opening an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The new office is going to be the company’s regional headquarters for the Middle East and Africa region and will be based in Dubai Internet City (DIC). [Read more…]

George Glass, Chief Architect at BT and Tony Sceales, CEO at Celona Technologies will discuss BT’s SOA implementation case study at this year’s TeleManagement World Americas in Dallas. The case study, which is based on one of the largest scale SOA implementations in the world talks about how BT has been able to realise new revenues early whilst delivering reductions in costs through system and process rationalisation. [Read more…]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to acquire Vallent Corporation, a privately held company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2007. [Read more…]

Microtronix® Datacom Ltd. has recently unveiled their latest low cost IP solution for Telco’s looking to economically update their legacy X.25 Call Billing Record collection systems. The Microtronix AMATPS Collection System is targeted at Telco’s currently using obsolete X.25 cards and dial-up modems to collect billing records from remote switches. [Read more…]