Cygent Joins the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2000 Cygent, Inc., the first software company to offer a comprehensive eBusiness Support System (eBSS) solution for 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. , today announced that it has joined the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program. The Cisco New World Ecosystem is a community of technology and deployment partners committed to creating integrated and profitable solutions for service providers. Cisco and its partners offer a wide range of solutions for Packet Telephony Synonymous with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), in which a digital voice stream is broken up into small chunks (packets) and transmitted over a packet-switched network. See IP telephony and packet switching. , Voice Applications, OSS/BSS, Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. and Solution Integration/Deployment. By gathering information through other Cisco New World Ecosystem members like MetaSolv, Portal, and Syndesis, Cygent enables flow-through provisioning of broadband and voice service through Cisco products. Cygent is the first software company to create a communications-specific solution from the customer perspective, enabling any interaction, for any service, through any point of contact. Cygent-powered solutions streamline the customer-retailer-wholesaler demand chain for communications services, increasing revenues by enabling the one-stop shop One-Stop Shop A company or a location that offers a multitude of services to a client or a customer. The idea is to provide convenient and efficient service and also to create the opportunity for the company to sell more products to clients and customers. for transport, content, and applications while reducing operations costs. Because it is built for the communications industry, Cygent has a rich set of Communications Messaging Interfaces (CMIs) that facilitate integration. "Cygent has a compelling solution and we are pleased to expand the Ecosystem offering in this area of 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. ," said Steve Hoch, director, Service Provider Marketing at Cisco. "The Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program delivers the power of choice to service providers and customers who deploy solutions provided by program members such as Cygent benefit from industry leading technologies and innovative, integrated products for greater flexibility and efficiency in deploying New World services." "Cygent is honored to be included in the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program," said Steven Bamberger, Cygent's vice president of marketing. "We are pleased that Cisco has recognized our core capability of providing a complete customer facing solution. We fully support open, standards-based architectures and share Cisco's commitment to interoperable, multi-vendor solutions." The Cisco New World Ecosystem is a community of technology and deployment companies enabling service providers to seize revenue and service opportunities created by the transition from circuit to packet networks. With the ecosystem model Ecosystem models, or ecological models, are mathematical representations of ecosystems. Typically they simplify complex foodwebs down to their major components or trophic levels, and quantify these as either numbers of organisms, biomass or the inventory/concentration of , service providers gain efficiency, innovation, and flexibility along with the power to choose from best-of-breed products and services based on open industry standards. Key categories of member focus include OSS/BSS, Voice Applications and Packet Telephony, Broadband Access, and Solution Integration/Deployment. About Cygent Cygent is the first Internet software company to offer a comprehensive eBusiness Support System (eBSS) solution for the communications industry. Cygent links wholesalers and retailers of communications services to each other and to their customers across all interaction points. Cygent provides capabilities for (1) one-to-one marketing, (2) order entry and online shopping and ordering, (3) bill presentment and payment See EBPP. , (4) account management, and (5) customer service. Cygent enables end-to-end solutions through alliances with communications and eBusiness leaders including BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , BusinessEdge Solutions, Deloitte Consulting, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, MetaSolv Software, Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. , Sun Microsystems, and Vitria Technology. Cygent is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in San Francisco and offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.cygent.com. |
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