ADVISORY/XACCT Technologies to Showcase IPDR Interoperability With Daleen at the OSS 2000 Conference, Orlando, Florida; Market Leader Facilitates IPDR Standard.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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 ADVISORY... for Monday Monday: see week. (Jan. 31) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHO &WHAT: XACCT Technologies, Inc. and Daleen Technologies (Nasdaq:DALN) are demonstrating IPDR (Internet Protocol Detail Record) interoperability between XACCT's XACCTusage(TM)and Daleen's BillPlex billing solution for IP networks at the OSS 2000 Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., from January 31 - February 2, 2000. Interoperability using the IPDR reference is a major theme at the conference, and XACCT and Daleen will show how IPDR can be integrated in an end-to-end solution -- from the source of the service through to billing. Press and analysts are invited to visit Daleen at booth No. 509 and see the demonstration. WHERE &WHEN: OSS 2000 Conference, Orlando, Florida The Renaissance Orlando Resort January 31, 2000 9 AM -- 7 PM February 1, 2000 9 AM -- 5 PM February 2, 2000 9 AM -- 12:15 PM 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 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. and applications. XACCTusage provides a single point of interface between the Operations/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) and the network infrastructure for usage data collection, automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. user account provisioning, and pre-payment processing. Its multi-source Multi-source, as it applies to downloading data, or files from the internet, is a method of decreasing download time for large files by getting data from two or more sources. , 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 the physical layer to the application layer -- in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. 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 analogous /anal·o·gous/ (ah-nal´ah-gus) resembling or similar in some respects, as in function or appearance, but not in origin or development. a·nal·o·gous adj. to the Call Detail Records (CDRs) generated by the telephone switches. The XDRs are used by billing applications to create service-specific usage-based bills for a wide variety of IP-based services and applications, such as Voice over IP (VoIP), video, virtual private networks (VPNs), and more.
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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