Agilent Technologies Announces Industry-First Revenue Assurance Solution to Jurisdictionalize Wireless Intercarrier Traffic in United States.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Billing & OSS World 2004

Booth No. 729

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2004

Enhancements to Signaling-Based Solution Enable Service Providers

to Manage Revenue Flows for Maximum Profit

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced industry-first enhancements to its revenue assurance solution suite that enable telephone companies to measure and jurisdictionalize intercarrier wireless traffic in the United States. These precise measurements replace inaccurate estimates previously used for billing and also alert telcos to potentially unscrupulous practices that aim to avoid full payment of fees.

Agilent's enhanced acceSS7 Interconnect Analysis enables local exchange carriers (LECs) in the United States to ensure proper payment for use of their networks to transport wireless intercarrier traffic, maximizing billing revenue. Wireless service providers (WSPs) can use the same system to validate interoperator bills received from LECs and interexchange carriers (IXCs), minimizing their payments to other carriers for originating traffic and maximizing their revenue for terminating traffic. Additionally, many telcos have long suspected that the fees received from other service providers for transiting and terminating calls do not reflect the actual use of their networks. The Interconnect Analysis solution addresses this problem by introducing jurisdictional analysis of wireless originating and terminating traffic.

"Originally developed as an interoperator billing verification package, Interconnect Analysis can also identify suspicious practices by other operators," said Giorgio Dina, Agilent OSS vice president and general manager. "Used by most tier-one service providers in North America, our comprehensive suite of revenue assurance solutions has enabled the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars each year in the United States."

Interconnect Analysis captures and generates real-time and historical usage data from any SS7 network and gives an accurate picture of resource consumption. Because the system can now measure wireless originating and terminating traffic, wireless service providers can validate invoices from LEC interconnect partners, eliminating overbilling and reducing their operating costs.

Agilent's suite of revenue assurance solutions includes the following:

-- acceSS7 Interconnect Analysis - U.S. interconnect billing

verification solution that monitors inbound and outbound

intercarrier traffic to combat arbitrage and ensure maximum

billing revenue.

-- acceSS7 AMAT7 - Interconnect billing solution that enables

telcos to collect data about other operators' usage of their

SS7 signaling network and bill for that usage.

-- acceSS7 CDR7 - Interconnect billing solution that enables

telcos to collect data about other operators' usage of their

trunk network and bill for that usage.

-- acceSS7 Traffic QoS Manager - Intercarrier QoS and SLA 

management solution that enables service providers to monitor,

in near real-time and historically, the quality of service

that is being delivered to them by interconnected operators.

-- Data Mining Toolkit - Telecom-specific analytic tool that uses

OLAP technology to enable business-critical decisions.

-- Cerebrus(RE) - Fraud management solution integrated with

Agilent's revenue assurance solutions that provides unique

behavioral profiling using neural network technology.

Agilent in Communications

Agilent Technologies is a leading provider of components, test, measurement, monitoring and management solutions for the communications industry. Agilent enables designers, manufacturers and service providers to accelerate the delivery of next-generation devices, networks and services. Agilent's broad set of solutions and services includes optical, wireless, Internet and broadband technologies that span the entire communications life cycle.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $6.1 billion in fiscal year 2003. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com

Note to Editors: Further technology, corporate citizenship and executive news is available on the Agilent news site at www.agilent.com/go/news.