Systems integrator Science Applications International Corp. (www.saic.com) has come out with RapidApps, an operations and business support solution for ASPs. Offered in concert with SAIC subsidiary Telcordia Technologies Inc. (www.telecordia.com), RapidApps gives smaller organizations easy access to sophisticated applications that once were only available to large enterprises, but allows them to pay only for what they use. Payment per transaction or per subscriber circuit enables service providers to flexibly select the functionality, such as fulfillment, assurance or billing, while maintaining the option to add additional applications as growth demands.
Addressing service provider requirements for a cohesive management platform, intelligent optical networking vendor Sycamore Networks Inc. (www.sycamorenet.com) has announced the SilvxOSS Server. This server-based software solution interfaces with existing back-office OSSs to enable service providers to easily extract data from the optical network and integrate it within their existing network management environment to create and maintain new optical services. This level of integrated functionality will allow service providers to achieve greater operational efficiencies, faster time to market, and faster time to revenue for new service offerings.
Canadian communications provider C1 Communications (www.c1communications.com) has chosen MetaSolv Software Inc.'s (www.metasolv.com) Telecom Business Solution software for part of its back-office infrastructure. C1 provides medium-sized and small businesses with converged communications services, including data, voice, video, Internet service, DSL and IP-based communications. The MetaSolv solution will be used for order processing, service provisioning, network inventory and design, trouble resolution, gateway interconnections, and work-flow management.
In other MetaSolv news, Reliant Energy Communications (RECI, www.communications.reliantenergy.com) has completed initial implementation of TBS.
Daleen Technologies Inc. (www.daleen.com) recently won contracts for its BillPlex Plus ICP billing software, which supports DSL, T1, phone and web hosting services, from Digital Broadband Communications Inc., (www.digitalbroadband.com), QoS Networks Inc. (www.qosnetworks.net) and Vitts Networks Inc. (www.vitts.com).
IT services and financial software company Barron McCann Ltd. (www.bemac.com) has launched etaps, a payment file reformatting application that simplifies the payment processing and reconciliation requirements of a billing system and allows new payment methods and countries to be added quickly and seamlessly.
Network Telephone Corp. (www.networktelephone.net) has completed its move to ADC's (www.adc.com) Singl.eView billing platform, a major benchmark in the company's phased launch of a $12 million automated back-office system. Network Telephone is the first company to subscribe to ADC's Singl.eView billing and customer management systems side by side.
Tekelec Inc. (www.tekelec.com) has enhanced its next-generation networks test solution, velOSity IP, to provide equipment manufacturers with support for the emerging media gateway control (MEGACO) H.248 media gateway control protocol (MGCP).
