Telarix, Inc., the leading provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced that Golden Telecom, Inc. (NASDAQ:GLDN), a leading independent operator of integrated telecommunications in Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (“CIS”), has selected its iXTools™ software solution to optimize their interconnect business. [Read more…]
LHS Generates 1125 Million Invoices Per Hour for Billing and Customer Care
LHS, a leading provider of telecommunications and billing software, has revealed the results of a breakthrough performance test for its fully convergent billing and customer care system, BSCS iX. On an enterprise-class Sun Fire E25K server equipped with 72 UltraSPARC IV processors at 1,5 GHz processor, BSCS iX generated 1.125 million invoices per hour supporting 40 million customers. [Read more…]
Mobiltel Deploys Performance Management from Vallent
Vallent™ Corporation, a global leader in Service Assurance management, has recently announced that Mobiltel will deploy their Performance Management solution to help manage and deliver quality multimedia and traditional services over their GSM and UMTS networks.
Mobiltel is part of the mobilkom austria group (mag), the wireless segment of Telekom Austria . Together, the members of mag serve 9.5 million customers in Austria , Bulgaria , Croatia , Slovenia and Liechtenstein . The group’s cooperative spirit and transfer of intelligence allows them to offer their customers stronger, more innovative solutions. [Read more…]
Minacom and Sunrise Telecom Partner to Deliver Advanced VoIP and IPTV Testing Solutions
Minacom, the foremost service quality test automation supplier to telcos and cable MSOs, and Sunrise Telecom(R) Incorporated, a leader in testing and monitoring solutions for voice, video, data services and next-generation digital multimedia, announced today they will work together to provide integrated test solutions for telcos and cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) offering VoIP and IP-Video services. The partnership will focus on combining the centralized test capabilities offered by Minacom’s DirectQuality(R) R7 service level test automation platform with the leading network and service test functionality available in Sunrise Telecom’s handheld FTTx, DSL, and cable test sets. [Read more…]
Amdocs Selected by TELMEX Mexican Directory Publisher ADSA
Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), a provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), and Anuncios en Directorios S.A. de C.V. (ADSA), the directory publishing subsidiary of Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. (TELMEX), has announced that ADSA chose Amdocs to deliver software and associated services to update ADSA’s online yellow pages directories to ensure a better customer experience to consumers and better business value to advertisers.
“Amdocs is already providing us with a centralized, customer-centric online infrastructure that addresses all aspects of the directory publishing process — including online yellow pages — and helps us offer a unique and intentional experience to our customers,” said Benjamin Podoswa Schwaycer, chief executive officer at ADSA.
Amdocs will be the prime systems integrator to replace ADSA’s online search engine software using ApproxiMatch online search engine as a key component of this initiative, and will also provide maintenance services to support the implementation under a six-year contract. [Read more…]
Rogers Communications Selects Amdocs CRM
Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), a leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), and Rogers Communications, a diversified Canadian communications and media company today announced that Rogers will implement Amdocs CRM across cable, wireless and telecom lines of business. This implementation is part of Rogers’ integrated customer management (ICM) strategy rollout which is designed to provide a consistent customer experience to its more than 10 million subscribers.
“Rogers recognizes that it is important to deliver a consistent and rewarding experience across all channels,” said Stephen Graham, chief marketing officer at Rogers Communications Inc. “After an extensive review of potential solutions, Amdocs was the natural choice to help us achieve this goal. The company understands our challenges and has the proven solutions we need to address them.”
Customers receive a variety of communications services from Rogers, including cable TV, high-speed Internet, wireline and wireless. Rogers strives to ensure a consistent customer experience across all those services. Providing a single view of the customer is part of an ICM strategy, which helps achieve that. ICM provides a framework to organize a company’s infrastructure and resources around customer needs and the customer experience. [Read more…]
Convergys Introduces New Software Testing Solutions That Shortens Lifecycle for Price Plans at SunCom Wireless
A new suite of software testing solutions from Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) combining consulting services with automated testing software is now available to businesses seeking to strengthen their software testing capabilities. Convergys Testing Solutions combine professional services offerings with Convergys Easy Test, an automated software application testing tool. Businesses using Convergys Testing Solutions can enhance the quality of their products and services by thoroughly testing and verifying changes to mission-critical systems such as billing and customer care.
“Reducing the time and cost of introducing new price plans to market, while improving plan accuracy with the help of Convergys Easy Test, helps us deliver on our strategy to be a leading value-priced wireless carrier,” said Emilio Echave, senior vice president of operations for SunCom Wireless.
Under a contract signed recently with Convergys, SunCom Wireless is using Convergys Testing Solutions to bring complex voice and data pricing plans to market quickly. Convergys is providing testing consulting services in the form of software configuration, customization, project management, and system testing. [Read more…]
Lucent Technologies Selected by Telefonica to Increase Performance Management
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…]
Avea Selects Schema’s GSM Network Optimization Solution
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…]
GPTC Selects Telarix iXTools to Manage Interconnect Business
Telarix™, a leading provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced that General Post and Telecommunications Company (GPTC), the main telecom operator in Libya, has selected Telarix’s iXTools™ as part of a strategic effort to expand its international carrier business and enhance the overall performance of its interconnect systems. The contract also marks Telarix’s expansion into Africa and the Middle East and solidifies the company’s position as the market leader among providers of interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions to the international telecommunications industry.
“GPTC has an ambitious plan to play a major and strategic role in the voice termination market worldwide and specifically in the Pan-African area,” said Kamal Farhat, Director of International Carrier Business at GPTC.
GPTC will leverage Telarix’s next generation routing optimization solutions, iXRoute™
and iXTranslate™, to further streamline and automate the carrier’s routing processes. These solutions eliminate the limitations associated with legacy Least Cost Routing (LCR) products by allowing carriers to define business and network requirements to financially optimize their network routing. [Read more…]
Telarix Announces New Corporate Strategy
Telarix, Inc., a provider of Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) and settlement solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, today announced a new corporate strategy designed to combine its award winning interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions with a service-focused offering to provide the industry’s most comprehensive solution — uniquely tailored to address service providers’ most critical business issues.
As part of the new strategy, Telarix will offer its interconnect business optimization and settlement solutions over a Flexible Delivery Platform, which includes a new hosted offering called iXTools ASP(TM). Now carriers can choose either an outsourced, hosted or traditional software license solution to improve revenue assurance, optimize routing, manage complex agreements and facilitate financial traffic management.
“Offering a solution such as this in both a software-based and a services-based model helps tailor the end product to meet a carrier’s exact needs,” commented Paul Hughes, Vice President of Communications Software Strategies with the Yankee Group. “Telarix’s Flexible Delivery Platform strategy demonstrates the company’s commitment to meeting global communications carriers’ specific OSS/BSS strategies, each of which may differ based on past investment history and technology acquisition and usage preferences, and bolsters the company’s position in the global OSS/BSS space.”
This unprecedented offering provides traditional global incumbents, emerging service providers, and dominant regional players of fixed, mobile and VoIP services a comprehensive solution tailored to their specific business environment and requirements. Three of the world’s five largest telecom providers already depend on iXTools to optimize their interconnect business. [Read more…]
Schema Announces Agreement for Transport Network Optimization with Major North American Wireless Service Provider
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…]
Partner Communications Selects RADCOM’s UMTS Monitoring Solution
RADCOM, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RDCM – News), a leading network test and service monitoring solutions provider, today announced that Partner Communications Company Ltd. (“Partner”), (NASDAQ: PTNR – News), a leading Israeli mobile communications operator, selected its UMTS monitoring solution. The Omni-Q system enables Partner to manage 3G service performance across various local sites from a single control center.
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NexusHORIZON Selected by BT
Nexus Telecom has won a large six-year contract to supply BT with NexusHORIZON, a comprehensive network performance management solution. The new deployment will include the newest feature of NexusHORIZON: automated Service Level Verification (SLV), a rules-based threshold detection facility which automatically informs an operations centre when key performance indicators reach critical thresholds. [Read more…]
DataLinx Enters into Joint Marketing Agreement with Itronix to Integrate End-to-End Managed Solutions for Optimized Field Service Delivery
At TelecomNEXT 2006, DataLinx, a leader in providing Billing and Operation Support Systems focused on Customer Relationship Management, Service Assurance, Provisioning and Mobile WorkForce Management software, announced that is has entered into a marketing agreement with Itronix, A General Dynamics Company and leading provider of rugged, wireless computing devices for mobile work forces. The two companies together will bring innovative Mobile Service Delivery solutions which address the competitive challenges faced by Telecom, Cable and Utility providers. DataLinx will give demonstrations of their Push2Test Service Assurance and MAST WorkForce Management software tools on Itronix rugged computing solutions at TelecomNEXT, March 21-22, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center in Las Vegas. [Read more…]
InfoVista Enhances Network Performance Tools for Service Providers
InfoVista (NASDAQ: IVTA; Euronext IFV – FR0004031649), the leading service-centric performance management software company, announced today the availability of VistaInsight(TM) for Networks for Service Providers, version 2.0 (VIN for Service Providers 2.0), a next-generation performance management solution that enables service providers to effectively meet and exceed performance and service requirements for today’s advanced communications technologies including Metro Ethernet. The key enhancements to VIN for Service Providers 2.0 include out-of-box functionality to quickly and cost-effectively deliver new IP VPN and Metro Ethernet services and enhanced customer-reporting functionalities to enable tiered service offerings. [Read more…]
TTI Telecom to Provide MetroPCS Its Service Assurance Solution
TTI Telecom International Ltd. (NASDAQ: TTIL) (‘TTI Telecom’), a global supplier of Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers, today announced that MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (‘MetroPCS’), a rapidly growing provider of wireless communications services, will standardize its 3G network on TTI Telecom’s Service Assurance solution. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. [Read more…]
New Plantronics Bluetooth Headsets Embody Sound Innovation – Plantronics Voyager 510 Bluetooth Headset Receives ‘Innovation’ Award
Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE: PLT) today announced two new Bluetooth(R) headsets, the Plantronics Discovery(TM) 645 and Plantronics Voyager 510 with WindSmart(R), that incorporate new technologies for excellent audio clarity during conversations. The Voyager 510 is the first Bluetooth headset on the market to include both a noise-canceling microphone and wind-reduction technology for brilliant sound in windy environments. The Discovery 645 includes a digital signal processing (DSP) chip to actively reduce background noise when talking. [Read more…]
Telarix Positions Itself for Next-Stage Growth Through New Leadership Appointments
Telarix(TM), the leading innovator in Interconnect Business Optimization (IBO) software, today announced that telecom veteran Don Lynch has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. Co-founder Amir Yazdanpanah will now assume the role of Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the day-to-day operational management of the company. [Read more…]
Sunrise Telecom Nets Major Five-year Agreement with O2 Germany
Sunrise Telecom® Incorporated (Pink Sheets: SRTI.PK – News), a leader in testing and monitoring solutions for voice, video, data services and next-generation digital multimedia, today announced that it was awarded a five-year contract to provide its Traffic Analysis and Monitoring System (TAMS) to O2 Germany, one of Europe’s leading providers of mobile communications services. Sunrise Telecom was selected for its technical leadership, flexible solutions, and exceptionally high performance during its partnership with O2 over the past several years.
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