Telcordia Technologies, Inc. continues to lead the transformation of the telecommunications industry by delivering software innovations that meet carrier demands in a dynamic business environment. The company today announced that Hydro One Telecom Inc., a provider of broadband telecommunications services to carriers, large enterprises and Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has selected Discovery, a new module of Telcordia(R) Granite Inventory, to perform network asset discovery and reconciliation to their existing Granite Inventory database.

“Our goal is to have a synchronized database that matches the equipment as it is actually deployed in our network. Deploying the new Discovery Module in our Telcordia Granite Inventory system will provide an immediate payback by enabling us to fulfill new services faster and with greater accuracy,” said Aaron Cheng, Director of IT Systems, Hydro One Telecom. “We looked at several options and Granite was a clear solution that offered truly integrated Discovery and reconciliation. With this new functionality plus Granite Inventory’s open and flexible architecture, complex IP services are even easier to design and implement.”

Hydro One Telecom is an innovative carrier that currently offers Transparent LAN, Private Line, and Internet Transit Services to its customers. Discovery will “talk” to the IP, and SONET networks that provide the foundation for these services by supporting 12 different types of equipment provided by five different vendors. In addition, Granite Inventory with Discovery will help Hydro One Telecom easily scale to accommodate over 1,000 network devices.

“The complexity of today’s sophisticated telecom networks makes it increasingly difficult for carriers to manage and reconcile network assets and drive revenue through the quick and accurate turn-up of new services,” said Don Wadas, Corporate Vice President of Sales, Telcordia. “The addition of Discovery in Granite Inventory was inspired by the need for absolute and real-time accuracy of the inventory in order for carriers such as Hydro One Telecom to successfully provision advanced IP services and ensure a superior customer experience, exceptional flow through, and expeditious order to cash process.”

Telcordia Granite Inventory is an award-winning, fully J2EE compliant solution that provides an open and flexible data model that stores the entire multi-vendor, multi-technology network image of sites, equipment, configurations & services, and automates service & network provisioning. The Discovery module (Discovery), now available as an integral component of the Telcordia(R) Granite Inventory system, provides discovery with reconciliation to the Granite Inventory database for next generation technologies and services, including optical, SONET/SDH, ATM, Frame Relay, DSL, Ethernet, IP, 3G, GPRS, MPLS, GSM, UMTS, CDMA, and WCDMA.

Discovery sits on the Granite application framework (GAF), providing a tight integration of the discovery software with the entire Granite Inventory product suite. This allows customers to deploy the discovery capability without paying an up-front “integration tax”. In contrast, other vendor solutions require costly and time-consuming development work before launch, thus indefinitely extending ROI and payback periods. Telcordia Granite Inventory has proven performance and production ready credentials in Tier 1 operators around the world. More information on Telcordia Granite Inventory and other Telcordia solutions can be found on the web at www.telcordia.com.