Espial and NEC Partner To Provide First Standards-Based Billing Solution for Smart Internet Devices; Carrier-grade service-delivery platform integrates with existing OSS systems.Business Editors JavaOne 2001 SUPERCOMM 2001 OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001 Espial es·pi·al n. 1. The act of watching or observing; observation. 2. A taking notice of something; a discovery. 3. The fact of being seen or noticed. , creator of software that powers the world of smart Internet devices, announced today that it has integrated NEC's recently released billing mediation software Software that gathers and consolidates users' transmission usage from the network. It converts that data into a billing format for accounting and creates usage and marketing reports. , IPHarvest, with Espial(R) DeviceServer(TM), a service provisioning system. This expansion of DeviceServer capability enables service providers to integrate with traditional or new billing systems and allows subscriber transactions to be flexibly billed based on any business model. "Billing integration and the ability to offer new services to existing users are some of the most difficult requirements that service delivery platforms face," emphasized Jaison Dolvane, Espial 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. . "We selected NEC's IPHarvest because of its open, standards-based architecture and ability to import data records into any of the hundreds 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. systems in use by service providers worldwide. The result is a billing ready system that can be customized for any service provider, and which fully supports new services in a fraction of the time normally needed for billing integration. This solution truly complements the Espial Pervasive Internet vision of delivering application services to new smart Internet devices." IPHarvest is a software-based billing mediation solution from NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. . After a single data collection, the data is persistently stored for use by any number of target systems and is presented in the target system's native format. Key advantages include: user-definable input and output data mappings, real-time data conversion, data augmentation, attribute-level data filtering and the ability to dynamically effect changes that all but eliminates scheduled downtime scheduled downtime Informatics A planned, suspension of one or more computer functions to perform maintainance or enhance system operations. Cf Extended downtime. . Users can leverage existing billing interfaces and incorporate billing system enhancements with minimal risk of data loss. IP Harvest enables DeviceServer integration and customization capabilities for a variety of service providers in any vertical market. "We are pleased to integrate IPHarvest's Java/XML based architecture with Espial. The result is a fully scalable billing ready solution for service providers that can manage numerous devices based on any business model," said Ken Dilbeck, Software Development Director, NEC America, Inc, Network Management Division, Public Networks Group. "IPHarvest's flexibility allows it to rapidly deploy interfaces to a wide range of systems and enables it to have proven carrier-class interoperability with any OSS that adheres to the standards specifications defined by the Internet Protocol Detail Records Organization (IPDR IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record IPDR International Project Development Roadmap (Canada) IPDR Internal Preliminary Design Review IPDR Individual Program Data Records )." Partners and expert group members of the IPDR and Java OSS standards processes include some of the service provider community's most influential companies, including Telcordia Technologies, AT&T, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Lucent, Ericsson, Motorola, Narus, NEC, Nokia, Nortel, Siemens, Sun Microsystems and Vitria. Additional standards bodies affiliated with the IPDR organization include the Global Billing Association, International Engineering Consortium and TeleManagement Forum. DeviceServer and its new billing integration feature set are available immediately. For more information, visit www.espial.com, or call 1.888.4ESPIAL. About NEC America As an affiliate of NEC Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : NIPNY), NEC America Inc., develops, markets, installs and services a complete line of advanced communications products and software for public and private networks, including digital key telephone and PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). systems; ATM switching systems; wireless communications; facsimile equipment; fiber optic transmission systems; data communications products; digital microwave radio; satellite communications and network management systems. NEC Corporation and its affiliates worldwide are a $43 billion global leader whose 150,000 employees are dedicated to providing leading-edge computer, communications and semiconductor products and services. For more product information visit http://www.ipharvest.com for additional information about NEC America visit the company web site at http://www.necamerica.com Espial Espial is the first to provide a comprehensive approach to the development of open software for the next generation Internet See Internet2. - the Pervasive Internet. Partners and customers such as Intel, Motorola, NEC, Philips, National Semiconductor and Sun are helping Espial to realize its Pervasive Internet vision, where billions of users access highly personalized information through a variety of smart Internet devices. Completely portable across any platform, Espial software allows customers to quickly create services, deliver devices and manage infrastructure. The technology applies universally, across such sectors as Internet Appliances, TV, wireless, and automotive. Visit www.espial.com. Espial products are supported on leading device operating systems and environments with Java support including Microsoft's WinCE using the Insignia- Jeode, Linux and Embedded Linux, Symbian's EPOC A 32-bit operating system for handheld devices from Symbian Ltd., London, (www.symbian.com). Used in Psion and other handheld computers, it supports Java applications, e-mail, fax, infrared exchange, data synchronization with PCs and includes a suite of PIM and productivity applications. , Wind River's VxWorks and pSOS, QNX's QNX A multiuser, multitasking, real time operating system for PCs from QNX Software Systems, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario (www.qnx.com), that is noted for its low-memory requirement and rapid response. Similar to Unix, it has been in use since the early 1980s. 4, Microware's OS9, Sun Microsystems' Java platform and Tao Group's - intent(TM). |
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