Cincinnati Bell Integrates Harris Traffic & Billing

Cincinnati Bell has integrated the Harris Novar traffic and billing system into its daily business operation. Focused specifically on the broadband industry, Harris Corp. says the Novar suite delivers a comprehensive set of tools to schedule and insert ads, reconcile logs and invoice customers, among other tasks, by way of a highly efficient, completely paperless operation.

The Novar family of traffic and billing solutions replaces a legacy analog system that required three operators to perform multiple tasks for nine channels. Since upgrading to Novar, Cincinnati Bell has tripled its capacity and maximized its staff utilization, requiring just one operator to manage traffic and billing for 27 channels. Cincinnati Bell is using the Novar system to manage advertising on its Fioptics television service.

Harris Broadcast Communications offers products, systems and services that provide interoperable workflow solutions for broadcast, cable, satellite and out-of-home networks. The Harris ONE solution brings together highly integrated and cost-effective products that enable advanced media workflows for emerging content delivery business models, according to the company.