Total Solutions
Intec Telecom Systems recently announced the first customer, United Telecom, to license all Intec flaghip products. These include Inter-mediatE - convergent mediation platform, Inter-activatE - flow-through activation and InterconnecT CABS CG - carrier access billing platform. United Telecom decided to upgrade its mediation system to accommodate its expected 80 percent growth over the next seven years and to gain tighter control of the records being processed. Inter-mediatE will collect EBAF or CDRs (Extended Bellcore AMA Format or Call Detail Records) from the network, validate, filter, check for errors and guide the AMA Structure Code and Call Code variations that require transformation into EMI (Exchange Message Interface) records for output to downstream systems including Intec's InterconnecT CABS CG billing system which was implemented in 1994.
One Bill
Verizon small business customers in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island can now consolidate charges for the company's local, long-distance, wireless, DSL and optional services on one bill.To sign up for Veriations ONE-BILL, customers need to have Verizon local service and Verizon Wireless service. Both accounts must be in the same name and have good credit records. ONE-BILL customers who are registered users of Verizon's Web site, www.verizon.com, can view all their Verizon charges -- including Verizon Wireless charges -- online, and they can pay their consolidated bill electronically via the Web.
Closing the Deal
MetaSolv Inc. has acquired IP service activation software provider Orchestream for approximately $12.4 million. The Orchestream acquisition furthers MetaSolv's growth strategy and strengthens its leadership position in IP service activation, including multivendor IP VPN services. As a result of the ongoing rapid migration of global communications networks to cost-efficient IP technologies, market research firm IDC predicts that overall IP service revenues will grow at 27 percent CAGR, with IP VPN service revenues experiencing 57.9 percent CAGR over the next three to four years. With the acquisition, MetaSolv will add a number of top tier service providers to its global customer base, such as Orange, France Telecom, and Sonera, as well as expand its penetration into existing major service provider customers such as Vodafone, Verizon, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, and Telstra.
Service providers are likely to adopt GMPLS with a phase-in strategy -- initially deploying GMPLS in overlay or vendor-specific network segments and establishing semi-automated capabilities, then, subsequently, addressing multivendor interoperability to extend the GMPLS control plane on an end-to-end basis for full automation.
