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ASC Dislays Sophisticated Quality Monitoring and VoIP Recording Solutions at CommunicAsia 2008

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INSPIRATIONpro 8.0 and EVOip 8.0 Presentation Demonstrates ContinuedFocus on Asian Pacific Market

ASC announced today it will exhibit new versions of its quality monitoring solution, INSPIRATIONpro 8.0, and its VoIP recording solution, EVOip 8.0, at CommunicAsia in Singapore. It will be held in Hall 6 of the Singapore Expo. from 17-20 June 2008. The ASC exhibit will be at booth 4H2-12. ASC’s participation demonstrates its continued focus on the Asian Pacific market, anchored by a regional noffice in Singapore. [Read more…]

Comverse ONETM Billing and Active Customer Management Solution to Reduce Complexity and Accelerate Time to Revenue Launched

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In Deployment at Quad-Play Operator

Comverse® announced availability of the Comverse® ONETM Billing and Active Customer Management solution, which is the industry’s only customer care and billing solution built around a single data model and a single product catalog that allows seamless and efficient support for both multi-service and payment convergence all through one system. Regardless of payment or service type, this approach uniquely gives operators the ability to use one system to manage all subscribers consistently, as well as accelerate the launch of new offers and promotions. [Read more…]

Subex Lands Major Turkish RA Deal

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AVEA enabling innovative billing transformation to target revenue leakage with Subex’s Moneta

Subex Limited announced today its regional partner in Turkey (GANTEK) won a contract to implement Subex’s Moneta(TM) Revenue Assurance system for Turkish mobile operator AVEA. [Read more…]

Sonus Networks Selected to Replace Tortel Communication’s Legacy IP Network

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Business Enterprise Services Reinvented with help of Superior Transcoding Capabilities

Sonus Networks, Inc. announced that Tortel Communications Inc. selected Sonus to replace its incumbent IP-voice network technology.

Tortel is replacing its legacy solution to improve the overall quality of service and integrity of its network. The Company also required a robust, next-generation solution to enable it to develop and deliver differentiating product offerings and an improved long-distance offering. Due to the simplified network management and efficient transcoding capabilities of Sonus’ gateway solution, Tortel expects a substantial increase in its network performance and the ability to devote additional resources to the development of new services. [Read more…]

ECtel Finalist for Most Prestigious Award in BSS Industry

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ECtel Ltd. has been chosen as a World BSS Award finalist for its revenue assurance project (RAP) with AT&T Mobility.

“We are honored to receive this mark of recognition for our unique and innovative revenue assurance solutions and contributions to the industry,” said Mr. Itzik Weinstein, President and CEO of ECtel. “The size and scope of the project made this a complex undertaking, however, we are very happy to say that ECtel’s RAP provided AT&T with the most effective tool to solve the revenue assurance challenges it was presented with by today’s market.” [Read more…]

ECtel and Amdocs Join Forces to Provide Best-in-Class Fraud Detection and Prevention Solution

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ECtel Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECTX), a leading provider of Integrated Revenue Management™ (IRM™) solutions, has joined forces with Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience systems, for the delivery of a state of the art fraud detection and prevention solution, based on ECtel’s leading fraud prevention product – FraudView®, and Amdocs system integration services. [Read more…]

Subex’s The ROC Resource Book, First Edition Released

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Focused to help service providers make informed OSS/BSS investment decisions

Subex Limited launched the first edition of The ROC Resource Book, a publication that provides perspectives on Revenue and Operational Assurance, targeted at communication service providers.

The book carries articles written by industry experts, analysts, and researchers of the telecom software industry, veteran journalists, and leading writers to provide different perspectives on ideas and opportunities for service providers to transform operations and business processes to increase revenue. [Read more…]

Orga Systems Wins 2008 Excellence Awards

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Virtual Voucher: the “Most Innovative Application of Customer Care”

Orga Systems was recognized to be delivering the “Most Innovative Application of Customer Care” by being awarded the 2008 Excellence Awards.

The application awarded was, actually, a joint application of TIM CELULAR S.A. (TIM Brasil) and Orga Systems GmbH. TIM Brasil is the biggest operator in the world to use the Virtual Voucher, which is the first innovative prepaid top-up solution of its kind in Brazil. [Read more…]

TEOCO Awarded $4.5 million from Razorsight by Court

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A court ruling brought to a close a suit against Razorsight because of its stolen use of TEOCO’s intellectual property. As part of the order entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Razorsight Corporation, and other defendants, admitted liability on all of the claims filed against them. The settlement includes an injunction from Razorsight making any further use of any TEOCO intellectual property, a USD $4,500,000 payment, and a future audit. As an additional part of the court ordered injunction, Razorsight is required to extricate the stolen TEOCO intellectual property from all existing systems being used by its clients by September 1, 2008. [Read more…]

Aperto Networks to Deploy Community-wide WiMAX in Poland

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12 Villages in Community of Terespol to Connect Wirelessly with Carrier-Grade PacketMAX Solution

Aperto® Networks announced its carrier-grade PacketMAX solution is being deployed by the Community of Terespol in eastern Poland. An integrated WiMAX/WiFi municipal network using PacketMAX® will provide high-speed voice, data, and video services to the Community. A system integrator headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, Biatel SA, is providing the engineering for the deployment that is being expanded to all twelve villages that comprise the municipality. [Read more…]

Amdocs Demonstrates How to Manage Triple-Play Services, Track Customer Viewing, and Interactive Experiences

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Catalyst projects, Prosspero program solution and Content Encounter participation reinforce use of TM Forum standards for service providers

Three Catalyst projects to be showcased at Management World 2008 will include participation by Amdocs. They will demonstrate how charging for Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) services may be accomplished using its Customer Experience Systems (CES) product portfolio. In addition, their CES can be used for the management of network capacity and network service quality for triple-play services. They will also exhibit a solution for measuring and analyzing customer video viewing as part of the TM Forum Prosspero Program. Another Amdocs demonstration will cover the use of TM Forum initiatives and best practices in the areas of billing, payments, and settlements for digital media services, as part of the event. [Read more…]

MetraTech is Finalist for Three 2008 World BSS Awards

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MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of Web Services-based billing, customer self-care and partner management, has been nominated as a finalist for three prestigious 2008 World BSS Awards. These awards, widely regarded as the highest industry recognition of BSS excellence, are now in their 12th year. The announcement of the winners will be made at the BIMS 2008 Gala Diamond Drinks Party in Amsterdam on the evening of Tuesday 10th June 2008. [Read more…]

Intrinsyc Will Acquire Certain Assets and Operations of Destinator Technologies

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Assets to enhance Soleus™ software business and Intrinsyc’s customer base, as well as accelerate growth of firm’s wireless software revenues

Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire certain assets and operations of Destinator Technologies Inc. (Destinator). The acquisition is subject to court administered restructuring proceedings in Canada and the United States involving Destinator and certain of its affiliates and is expected to take six to eight weeks to complete. [Read more…]