ADVISORY/XACCT Technologies and Amdocs Demonstrate IP Billing Solution at the OSS 2000 Conference, Orlando, Florida; XACCT and Amdocs To Exhibit End-to-End IP Billing Solution.Business Editors &High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Monday (Jan. 31) OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. 2000 Conference Booth No. 415 --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHO &WHAT: XACCT Technologies, Inc., developer of the XACCTusage(TM) Mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, solution for IP networks, and AMDOCS Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DOX DOX Design of Experiments DOX Direct Operational Exchange ) will co-host demonstrations of an end-to-end IP billing solution that integrates XACCTusage(TM) with Ensemble(TM), Amdocs' premier billing and customer care platform at the OSS 2000 Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. from Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2000. The demonstration will show how service providers can benefit from providing end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for differentiated services Offerings that can be classified by type, or quality, of service. For example, a differentiated services network could prioritize real time traffic for a higher fee. -- from the source of the service through to billing. There will also be opportunities to learn about the revenue generating possibilities in providing value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. over networks. Press and analysts are invited to visit Amdoc's booth No. 415 and see the demonstration. WHERE &WHEN: OSS 2000 Conference, Orlando, Fla. The Renaissance Orlando Resort Jan. 31, 2000, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Feb. 1, 2000, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 2, 2000, 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. TO SCHEDULE A MEETING: Call Frank D'Angelo, director of Market Development, to schedule a meeting at the show with XACCT. Mobile: 408/202-4265 BACKGROUND: XACCT Technologies develops a new class of business infrastructure software that enables Integrated Communications Providers (ICPs) to design and execute flexible pricing models for differentiated value-added services and applications. XACCTusage, IP Mediation solution provides a single point of interface between the Operations/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) and the network infrastructure, for usage data collection, automated user account provisioning, and pre-payment processing. Its multi-source, multi-layer architecture, and business policy-based record synthesis capabilities enable XACCTusage to extract comprehensive usage information from a multitude of network devices from all layers of the network -- from physical layer to the application layer, in real-time and synthesize To create a whole or complete unit from parts or components. See synthesis. it to produce meaningful billing records called XACCT Detail Records (XDR (1) (EXternal Data Representation) A data format developed by Sun that is part of its networking standards. It deals with integer size, byte ordering, data representation, etc. and is used as an interchange format. ). XDRs are analogous to the Call Detail Records (CDRs) generated by the telephone switches. The XDRs are used by the Billing applications to create service-specific usage-based bills for a wide variety of IP-based services and applications, such as VoIP, Video, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , etc. AWARDS XACCT and its product have received the following awards and citations:
-- Data Communications magazine recognized XACCT as one of the &uot;Top
25 Hot Startups of 1998&uot; and named XACCTusage(TM)as one of the
&uot;Hot Products of 1999.&uot;
-- XACCT was one of the six companies named to the &uot;Winners Circle:
Software Companies to Watch,&uot; in Telecommunications magazine's
March 1999 issue.
-- XACCTusage(TM) received &uot;Most Innovative Billing Product&uot;
recognition at the Billing Systems `99 Conference and Exhibition
in April 1999.
-- Internet Telephony magazine selected XACCTusage(TM) as &uot;Product
of the Year&uot; in the Billing category in its November 1999 issue.
For more information about XACCT Technologies and its products, contact the company at 408/654-9900, send electronic mail to info@xacct.com, or visit the company's website @ www.xacct.com. |
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