Amdocs and HP to Deliver New-generation Prepaid Billing Solution.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 Telestrategies Billing 2000 Integration with IN Capabilities Enhances Amdocs' Prepaid Offering Amdocs (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DOX DOX Design of Experiments DOX Direct Operational Exchange ), the world's leading provider of customer care, billing and order management solutions to the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. , and Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that they will provide a real-time prepaid billing solution capable of running on Public Switched Telephone (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) and Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) networks. The solution integrates HP's OpenCall platform with Amdocs' prepaid offering to bring communications and Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. a real-time, Intelligent Network (IN)-based prepaid billing environment for voice, data and IP-based services. The real-time functionality allows service providers to effectively combat prepaid fraud by monitoring customer credit levels as customers use the service, which prevents exceeding prepaid limits. The solution also offers location-based billing options, such as reduced-rate or free calls within specific zones. The IN architecture of the solution allows more efficient use of network resources for greater services scalability. The solution is part of Amdocs' Ensemble customer care and billing system, which provides a fully scalable and convergent platform for prepaid and postpaid operations. The system enables prepaid and postpaid services bundling, allowing free prepaid minutes as a reward for postpaid usage. In addition to supporting traditional prepaid telephony, Ensemble supports a wide range of prepaid voice, data and IP services, such as mobile commerce and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. ), and postpaid real-time credit watch. The solution will be distributed through Amdocs' worldwide sales organization. HP's OpenCall IN platform is an integrated, standards-based platform that provides a real-time service execution environment, carrier-grade high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , and Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) and IP signaling. The programming and database tools in the HP OpenCall OpenCall is a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and telephony products. It is most commonly described as a suite of software and hardware applications which allow implementation of common telecom operator services such as platform enable Ensemble to capture subscriber information from differentiated billing services. "With the integration of HP's OpenCall, Ensemble is the first customer care and billing platform that is seamlessly integrated with IN-based prepaid capabilities," said Norman Rafalowitz, senior vice president, International Marketing, Amdocs. "In the face of tremendous worldwide demand for prepaid voice and data services, Amdocs' solution offers communications providers the ability to support the convergent offerings needed to create business differentiation and win market share." "HP is delighted to extend our long-standing business relationship with Amdocs to the area of prepaid applications," said Jean-Rene Bouvier Bouvier refers to several things:
About Ensemble Ensembletm is Amdocs' platform for customer care, billing and order management. Ensemble supports convergent multi-service operations, including voice, data and IP services in wireline and wireless environments. The system utilizes a scalable, multi-tier, client-server UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platform and has been proven to support the high-volume performance requirements of leading carriers. About HP OpenCall HP is powering the communications industry by supplying communications IT infrastructure to every Fortune 500 telecommunications company See telecom company. in the world today. HP and its partners deliver management, CO-compliant and NEBS-certified servers, signaling and service control platforms, and billing and customer-care solutions for UNIX(R) and Windows NT(R) system platforms, enabling service providers to migrate from network-focused to customer-focused business models as the Internet and telephony worlds converge. More information is available on the Web at http://www.hp.com/go/opencall. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on. HP has 86,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. About Amdocs Amdocs is the world's leading provider of customer care, billing and order management solutions for communications and Internet services. Amdocs has an unparalleled success record in project delivery of its mission-critical products. With human resources of more than 5,900 information systems professionals, Amdocs has an installed base of successful projects with more than 75 major service providers throughout the world. In April 2000, Amdocs completed the acquisition of Solect Technology Group Inc., a leading provider of customer care and billing systems for IP service providers. For more information visit our Web site at www.amdocs.com UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. |
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