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Intec Sets New Standard in Multi-Service Telecom Mediation
— Inter-mediatE v5 helps carriers bring new services rapidly to
market —
Atlanta/London, September 24, 2004 – Intec has launched
the latest version of Inter-mediatE™, its market leading, award
winning, multi-service mediation solution. Inter-mediatE v5,
which is already in production processing 1 billion events per
day at one of the world’s top 5 carriers, is the product of two
years of focused development. v5 illustrates the company’s long
term commitment to Inter-mediatE and to the 220 service
providers using it today. In response to customer market
drivers, v5 delivers tools that enable rapid service
introduction, including a new Rapid Development Environment. v5
also addresses an operator’s financial and operational
challenges by delivering an exceptionally low total cost of
ownership enabled by efficient and scalable use of hardware,
assured revenue processing, and an environment that facilitates
operational excellence.
This point is reinforced by Inter-mediatE customers such as KMC
Telecom, the largest privately-held US telecom operator, which
recently conducted a lengthy evaluation of mediation solutions
before selecting Inter-mediatE v5. George Stowers, IT manager at
KMC, commented, “Network technologies and network services are
changing rapidly. KMC needed a multi-service mediation solution
that could handle our network and service evolution.”
“Service Providers are now forced to compete based on the
service bundle that they can offer, and that encompasses the
entire spectrum of voice, video, and data – the so-called
triple-play,” says Rick Woods. “In 2004, we’ve found that
correlation of network usage across multiple services is no
longer the exception but the rule. A true multi-service
mediation system is now a fundamental requirement for efficient,
customer-centric operations.”
In addition to KMC, Inter-mediatE v5 is already implemented and
in production at one of the top 5 operators globally, and is
being delivered to other projects Intec has underway. Existing
customers are excited by the new capabilities and many are
planning the simple upgrade procedure in the coming months. The
reliability of this process, which with many mediation systems
is difficult or costly, requiring very expensive vendor services
and extensive system reconfiguration, is straightforward with
Inter-mediatE v5.
Inter-mediatE v5 cost effectively scales and supports operators
processing less than a million events per day to operators
processing in excess of 1 billion events per day. As an example,
implemented on an entry level server costing less than $50,000,
v5 processes 100 million events per day through its advanced,
highly-tuned architecture. This hardware and operational
efficiency results in a significantly reduced TCO compared to
other vendors’ solutions, making Inter-mediatE uniquely suitable
for small/medium size service providers. Tier 1 operators are
fully supported with performance benchmarks that prove the
ability to process 12.8 billion events per 10 hour processing
day on a single server, which represents approximately ten times
the daily average of the world’s largest operators.
About Intec
Intec is a leading OSS product vendor for fixed, mobile and
next-generation networks (i.e. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than
650 installations of its products worldwide in 450 customers.
Founded in 1997, Intec was listed on the London Stock Exchange
in June 2000. Intec is a market leader in inter-carrier billing
systems and convergent mediation software, and has recently
acquired strong capabilities in retail billing, IP billing and
real-time mobile service charging and control. For the year
ended 30 September 2003, Intec reported revenues of £50.7
million, with adjusted net earnings after tax of £4.1 million.
Intec’s product portfolio includes:
· Singl.eView™ – dynamic transaction management/retail billing;
· Inter-mediatE™ – convergent billing mediation solution;
· InterconnecT™ – inter-carrier billing including US CABS and
ITU-based settlement;
· Inter-activatE™ – flow-through provisioning and activation;
· InterconnecT CPM™ – end-to-end content partner management; and
· Intec DCP™ (Dynamic Charging Platform) – real-time
pre/post-paid charging.
For more information on Intec and its products and solutions
visit
www.intecbilling.com.
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