New Products from FTS, Orca Interactive, Oracle and More

Razorsight Partners with IBM
Razorsight Inc. signed a teaming agreement with IBM Corp. for its PartnerWorld Telecommunications Industry Network program. Under the terms of the agreement, which builds on the existing PartnerWorld relationship, Razorsight and IBM telco-focused solutions will be made available to mutual customers on IBM platforms through joint marketing and sales efforts. Razorsight’s AIM Communications solution, which delivers on-demand automation and analytics capabilities for network cost management and revenue assurance, aligns with IBM’s BSS/OSS and Billing Transformation solution.

ECtel Launches Roaming Assurance Solution
ECtel introduced a new roaming assurance solution as part of its IRM application to help operators comply with the GSMA NRTRDE (Near Real-Time Roaming Data Exchange) initiative. This application supports NRTRDE solutions by collecting raw usage CDRs from different data sources in the network and processing them to create NRTRDE usage files to be distributed to home networks. Using the solution, operators can ensure roamers’ revenue and reduce NRTRDE compatibility costs. ECtel’s Integrated Revenue Management product framework consists of fraud management and revenue assurance solutions, FraudView and RAP. FraudView features an array of unique detection and prevention technologies enabling thousands of fraud controls. RAP is ECtel’s automated revenue assurance platform that facilitates assurance of revenue and processes.

FTS Launches Leap BCE Broadband Edition
FTS has launched Leap Business Control Engine (Leap BCE) Broadband Edition. Leap BCE Broadband Edition offers quota-management services, including usage-quota per application (such as quota for P2P traffic or for video); usage-quotas that ignore certain services (such as operator-branded-gaming) and on- and off-peak plans. New functionality allows customers to manage their bandwidth usage on demand by monitoring quotas and costs accruing on their account as well as purchasing extra quotas. Pre-integrated Web self-care enables customers to monitor their usage throughout the month, set alerts and notifications, and determine parameters for how an account should behave when a quota is depleted.

Operax, Orca Interactive Bring QoS to IPTV
Operax and Orca Interactive Ltd. announced they will integrate their offerings to provide a solution designed to allow operators to manage service expansions while ensuring QoS for advanced video and IPTV services. Operax provides pre-IMS and IMS-compliant dynamic resource and admission control solutions to operators worldwide, allowing them to guarantee end-to-end QoS for any IP session. These Operax solutions will be combined with Orca Interactive’s IPTV middleware. Optimizing network capacity, the Orca RiGHTv ensures subscribers have access to first-rate video offerings for high-definition TV and video on demand. The new solution enables operators to deploy new applications and services without reconfiguring network infrastructure. It is operable in both pre-IMS and IMS environments, and helps operators manage QoS in single-service IPTV deployments as well as across multiple blended services, such as IPTV, VoIP, games and broadband.

Kabira Introduces Convergent Charging Solution
Kabira Technologies Inc. formally launched and expanded its Kabira Convergent Charging (KCC) product architecture. The charging application enables telecom providers to charge for new data and voice services offered over 3G/4G wireless, FTTx/ broadband, WiMAX and other service provider network scenarios. Kabira’s convergent charging product architecture specifically addresses current time-to-market, flexibility and scalability concerns facing service providers. The new product’s speed and scalability enable Kabira systems to handle substantial increases in transaction data volumes that are captured from the network, all while manipulated and acted upon in real time. By leveraging the solution’s high-performance, memory-resident architecture, providers can charge for any combination of services in real-time or batch modes.

Oracle Announces Productized Integration Approach
Oracle Corp. announced a productized integration approach that is based on the Oracle Application Integration Architecture. Oracle plans to deliver Industry Reference Models, which will give customers and partners the tools and documented business processes to create integrated process flows across heterogeneous environments. With these models, customer and partners are expected to adopt industry best practices more easily and implement unique processes that meet specific business needs and that should be protected through upgrade cycles. Additionally, Oracle is working with leading systems integrators to co-develop best practice industry processes and models. Addressing key business needs of service providers worldwide, these pre-built integrations will enable service providers to speed time-to-market for new services, discover new revenue streams through enhanced data analysis and capitalize on new opportunities by rapidly adapting streamlined business processes.