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Azure and Narus Team Up to Bring IP Monitoring Capability to Revenue Assurance.


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Azure azure /az·ure/ (azh´er) one of three metachromatic basic dyes (A, B, and C).

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n.
Any of various dyes used in biological stains, especially for blood and nuclear staining.
 Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced that it has signed a reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers.  agreement with Narus, a provider of unified IP Management and Security. The agreement brings together both companies' combined IP and revenue-assurance expertise to enable them to provide operators worldwide with the capability to bill for usage and identify fraud effectively on their next-generation telecom networks.

With the increasing complexity of value chains and partnerships in next-generation IP networks, a key requirement for operators is to ensure all relevant data is secured by monitoring traffic. The Narus IP Platform captures and analyzes IP traffic in real time across an entire IP network. Combining this with Azure's interconnect (1) To attach one device to another.

(2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another.
, data-integrity (Certo) and fraud-detection capability, operators can now extract information from IP networks to validate billing records and identify fraud on voice and data services.

Through this partnership, operators will be able to maximize revenue through the introduction of differential billing for next-generation products and services, as well as the detection of revenue leakage LEAKAGE. The waste which has taken place in liquids, by their escaping out of the casks or vessels in which they were kept. By the act of March 2, 1799, s. 59, 1 Story's L. U. S, 625, it is provided that there be an allowance of two per cent for leakage, on the quantity which shall appear  due to fraud and third-party services on their networks. The partnership also complements Azure's next-generation revenue-assurance product portfolio, following the recent launches of Azure Inter-Party Management and the next-generation Azure Fraud Control System.

"Being able to understand activity on their networks is the first stage for carriers wanting to implement revenue assurance for next-generation networks," said John Cronin The name John Cronin corresponds to five men of note in four countries: Australia
  • John Cronin was the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, from 1909 to 1923.
, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Azure Solutions. "This partnership with Narus will enable us to combine our sales and R&D development to deliver even more effective next-generation revenue assurance."

"Customers are looking for Looking for

In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
 more information about their networks and traffic," said Jay Thomas Jay Thomas (born Jon (or John) Thomas Terrell on July 12, 1948 in Kermit, Texas) is an American actor and disc jockey. He was raised in New Orleans, where he attended Jesuit High School, New Orleans. , vice president of product marketing at Narus. "Combining Azure's capabilities with Narus unified IP Management and Security brings a new understanding of traffic, capabilities and revenue to carriers' businesses."

Both Azure and Narus were judged top startups in the revenue assurance and mediation categories, respectively, in the recent Heavy Reading 2005 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.  Market Perception Study.

About Azure Solutions (www.azuresolutions.com)

Azure Solutions is the world's largest revenue-assurance company. It is headquartered in London, with people in Westminster (Colorado), Ipswich, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (kwä`lə lm`pr), city (1990 est. pop. , Jakarta, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and Mexico City Mexico City
 Spanish Ciudad de México

City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi
. Azure's end-to-end revenue-assurance product portfolio for current-generation networks includes Data Integrity, Wholesale and Interconnect Billing, International Settlements, Fraud Management, Mediation, Management, Translation and Rating, Event Integrity and Route Optimisation. Azure has launched Azure Inter-Party Management and Azure Fraud Control System as the first products in its next-generation portfolio. Azure provides individual products or complete revenue-assurance solutions using a common platform and any combination of products that a customer might need. Customers can choose a system that they own and operate themselves or a bureau that Azure manages on their behalf. Azure has over 60 customers across the world comprising PTTs, mobile operators, national operators, carrier's carrier and cable TV companies. Azure has significant carrier experience and understands the problems faced by all these operators.

The company's heritage can be traced back to BT in the early 1990s. Azure was spun out of BT in April 2003 and is backed by New Venture Partners, Doughty dough·ty  
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Marked by stouthearted courage; brave.



[Middle English, from Old English dohtig; see dheugh- in Indo-European roots.
 Hanson Technology Ventures and Intel Capital.

Recently Azure won the 'Best Revenue-Assurance Project' award at the World Billing Awards 2005 in London, and 'Most Promising Company' at the TeleStrategies Billing & OSS World Excellence Awards 2005 in Philadelphia.

About Narus, Inc.

Narus provides a carrier-class IP platform for the largest, most profitable networks in the world. The Narus IP platform offers a "total network view" through the real-time collection and analysis of one packet to billions of packets across multiple networks at up to OC-192 rates. The Narus IP platform is used by Tier 1 carriers to enable IP applications such as billing, infrastructure protection, policy enforcement and IP monitoring. Narus is privately held and fully funded. For more information, visit www.narus.com.
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