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Comverse Kenan FX Customer Care, Fulfillment & Billing Solution Deployed by CTM

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Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. and the world’s leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, has recently announced that CTM, Macau’s only full telecom service provider, has deployed the Comverse Kenan® FX Business Solution to cover the customer care, fulfilment and billing functionality for its mobile network. The Comverse Kenan FX system will support CTM’s planned 3G services expected to be rolled out in Q2. In addition, CTM is currently in the process of overhauling its mobile BSS infrastructure with the assistance of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), Comverse and other vendors. [Read more…]

Analysys Reveals Increasing Concentration Of Market Power In BSS OSS

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The number of system sales announcements for telecoms IT (BSS/OSS) solutions dropped markedly in 2006, according to a new report, Billing and OSS Trends: the transition to telecoms IT, published by Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media (http://research.analysys.com). In 2006 there were 456 system sales announced globally, compared with 569 in 2005 and 514 in 2004, according to Analysys. [Read more…]

Subex Azure launches Nikira V6.0

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Subex Azure Limited, a leading global provider of OSS solutions for telecom operators, has recently announced the launch of Nikira V6.0, the latest version of its leading fraud management system. Nikira helps wireline and wireless telecom operators to detect and investigate both traditional and next-generation frauds in order to prevent revenue leakage. The Operator Attitudes to Revenue Assurance 2006 survey, conducted by UK based telecom analyst firm Analysys, revealed that an operator on an average loses around 4 percent of its annual revenue due to fraud. [Read more…]

Comarch and PSI Join Forces in the OSS Arena

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Comarch and PSI, well-known members of TeleManagement Forum, announced today that they will cooperate in the global Telecommunication markets

Comarch the leading OSS solutions supplier and PSI TELCO the leading network management supplier have agreed to create a common solution combining Comarch OSS Suite and PSI Configuration Management System based on TeleManagement Forum NGOSS principles. [Read more…]

Comarch Received a “Strong” Rating in Gartner’s Market Report

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Comarch’s offering for telecoms receives “Strong” rating in Leading Analyst Firm’s BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors (2007).

Comarch, the leading provider of IT systems for telecoms, received a “Strong” rating in Gartner’s market report: “Dataquest Insight: BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2007.” [Read more…]

TELUS Completes Deployment of Sigma Systems’ OSS Service Management Solution

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TELUS has deployed Sigma Systems’ Service Management Platform (SMP) to support service provisioning and activation of wireless voice and data services to more than 5.1 million subscribers. TELUS, an $8.8 billion Canadian telecommunications carrier, chose Sigma’s SMP because of the company’s proven expertise deploying wireless operational support systems (OSS). [Read more…]

Survey Reveals Users of Sophisticated Network Monitoring Tools Diagnose Network Performance Problems 69 Percent Faster

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NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT), the industry pacesetter for advanced network and service assurance solutions, has recently announced that a recent customer survey revealed the nGenius® Performance Management System has cut network performance problem diagnosis times by nearly 70 percent. Users reported that problem diagnosis took an average of 9.1 hours with other tools and approaches, and an average of 2.8 hours once the nGenius® System was deployed. [Read more…]

NetScout Enhances Early-Warning System for Application Performance and VoIP Assurance

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NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT), the industry pacesetter for advanced network and service assurance solutions, has recentlly announced availability of nGenius® Analytics Version 1.2. With this release, nGenius Analytics now includes features designed to proactively monitor VoIP quality metrics, application response time increases, and application utilization decreases – all critical aspects to assuring services and reducing Mean Time to Restore (MTTR) on today’s converged networks. [Read more…]

Axiom Systems Launches Closed-Loop Service Lifecycle Solution

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Axiom Systems, the leader in Service Fulfilment software for Communications Service Providers (CSPs), has recently launched AXIOSS® Active Catalog, the industry’s first solution to enable CSP’s to adopt a closed-loop approach to service fulfilment. The Active Catalog compliments a new version of the AXIOSS product suite, V6, which is also generally available as of this month and is being previewed at the show. [Read more…]

Kognitio and RateIntegration Allow Telcos to Maximize Revenue with New Pricing Appliance

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Kognitio, a leading provider of solutions to business problems that require acquisition, rationalisation and analysis of both large and complex data and RateIntegration, the leading providers of Revenue Lifecycle Management solutions, have recently announced the general availability of Pricing Appliance v2.0, the enhanced, telecom operator-focused version of the sophisticated rules-based pricing engine. [Read more…]

Comptel Enhances Fulfilment Solution with Inventory Mediator

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Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, has recently announced the Comptel Inventory Mediator, a new dynamic way of collecting information about the network to improve the accuracy of the data held in a network inventory, for example Comptel Inventory Solution. This latest enhancement to the Comptel Dynamic OSSTM follows the recent announcement of the Comptel Service Catalog Solution, which is also a key to service fulfilment automation. [Read more…]

NewVoiceMedia Launches New Platform for Personalised Customer Care

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NewVoiceMedia, one of Europe’s leading Hosted Telephony Service providers, has launched ContactWorld, a next-generation platform for voice applications. The solution has been designed to help companies introduce Individual Caller Treatment (ICT), a new personalised service that can turn any contact centre into a highly-focussed, precision marketing tool. [Read more…]

Telarix Launches iXLink Neutral Business Exchange Service

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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, has established iXLink, a global electronic business network for the telecom industry. Founded in conjunction with some of the world’s largest carriers, iXLink provides a secure, reliable business-to-business information exchange platform that enables service providers to quickly and efficiently access and share business documents among their trading partners. [Read more…]

Lavastorm Reinvents Revenue Assurance with New BRAIN Software

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Lavastorm, a global provider of business assurance software and solutions, has recently announced a major new edition of its BRAIN revenue assurance software. The new 4.0 release is designed to transform the market by setting a new standard for easy audit configuration. It also changes how assurance software is priced and delivered, enabling a much wider scale and use of business assurance auditing within and beyond the communications service provider market. [Read more…]

TTI Telecom Introduces New Version of TrafficGuard

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TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. (NASDAQ: TTIL) (“TTI Telecom”), a global supplier of Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers, has introduced a new module to its TrafficGuard system. TrafficGuard is a proactive Service Assurance tool which monitors network beh avi or in near real-time and provides operators with the ability to anticipate performance degradations and traffic-related impairments before their effects reach the end-user. This new module expands TrafficGuard’s flexibility, enables easier operation by NOC staff, and cuts problem identification time by up to 50%. [Read more…]