Sylantro and Primal Solutions Partner to Provide Telco-Compliant Mediation and Billing Choices for Managed Telephony Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL & IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001 Partnership Gives Service Providers Scalable Carrier-Grade Options in 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. Solutions for Next-Generation Hosted 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). and IP Centrex A telephone service in which an IP-based PBX is located in the telephone company's facilities. It connects to the customer via the LAN rather than by telephone wires. IP CENTREX offers voice over IP and other IP-based services as well as connectivity to the regular telephone system (PSTN). Services Sylantro(TM) Systems and Primal Solutions, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. :PSOL PSOL Proportional Solenoid .OB) today announced a strategic partnership that gives service providers a suite of back office integration options for their Hosted PBX and IP Centrex service offerings that are fully compliant with industry-standard telephony billing formats such as BAF BAF British Athletics Federation (Billing AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. Format). Through the partnership with Primal, Sylantro is the first vendor in the managed telephony space to offer service providers the flexibility to easily integrate real-time billing records with both legacy OSS systems and next-generation solutions. Primal's Access IM(TM) mediation platform can format and deliver Call Detail Records (CDRs) from Sylantro's applications-enabled softswitch that are fully compliant with industry standards such as BAF (GR-1100-CORE), CIBER CIBER Center for International Business Education and Research (various locations) CIBER Center for International Business and Research (Michigan State University) CIBER Cellular Inter-Carrier Billing Exchange Record and 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 . In addition, Primal's Access IM(TM) can be quickly configured to support service providers' proprietary formats. Primal Solutions, Inc. is an innovative provider of advanced mediation, customer management and billing, and customer analytics for service providers. Sylantro Systems Corporation supplies the industry's premier suite of managed telephony services such as innovative Hosted PBX and IP Centrex applications and other advanced services via the company's applications-enabled softswitch. Sylantro's managed telephony applications modules and Applications Switch(TM) are fully interoperable with Primal's packet network and circuit switch mediation solution, Access IM(TM). Through the partnership, Primal and Sylantro offer a rich suite of network-hosted business communications services that can be easily integrated into legacy OSS systems, as well as newer billing and provisioning systems that are becoming increasingly popular among service providers. Interoperability with Access IM(TM) immediately enables service providers to implement Primal's entire Switch-to-Bill OSS/BSS suite, which includes Access IM(TM), Connect CCB CCB Calcium channel blocker, see there (TM) customer care and billing, and Outfront CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. (TM) customer analytics. "In order to deploy innovative network-hosted Hosted PBX and IP Centrex services that generate much needed new revenue streams, carriers must have the capability to easily and quickly integrate billing and other operational mechanisms with their existing or next-generation OSS systems," said Dave Scarborough, Sylantro's vice president of strategic alliances. "Through our partnership with Primal, service providers for the first time have access to a proven OSS solution for their managed telephony services offerings that is fully compliant with billing formats that are widely used in the industry today, as well as with newer solutions." Sylantro's applications-enabled softswitch provides streaming, real-time CDRs designed to give service providers maximum flexibility by providing extensive usage information for phone calls, as well as individual features and applications. Primal's software solutions provide a mediation layer that converts the Sylantro records to Extended Billing AMA Format (EBAF EBAF Endometrial Bleeding-Associated Factor EBAF Extended Bellcore AMA Format EBAF Enhanced Bellcore AMA Format (Nortel) EBAF Electronic Bellcore Administrative Format EBAF Electronic Business Application Framework ), BAF or other AMA formats, facilitating integration with service providers' OSS systems. Sylantro's real-time CDRs allow service providers to process and generate customer billing and analysis on an ongoing basis and conserve resources by offloading the CDR (1) See CD-R and extension. (2) (Call Detail Reporting) See call accounting. (3) (Common Data Rate) A standard sampling rate for digital video for 480i and 576i systems. The rate is 13.5 MHz. See ITU-R BT. data from network element memory. "Sylantro's revenue-ready managed telephony applications provide an incredible value to service providers looking to offer these next-generation business communications services," said David Haynes, vice president of marketing and business development of Primal Solutions. "With our experience in both IP-based and circuit-switched networks, Primal will help service providers deploy Sylantro-based services much faster so that they can start generating new revenues and gain market share more quickly." Commercial availability of the Primal/Sylantro combined solution is planned for 1Q02. About Primal Solutions, Inc. Primal is an innovative software company providing customer management and billing, mediation and analytics software for IP and Wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. service providers. Primal's product suite, comprised of Access IM(TM) for switch mediation, Connect CCB(TM) for customer management and billing, and Outfront CRM(TM) for customer analytics, enables communications service providers to manage all aspects of the subscriber relationship across both IP and wireless networks. This includes mission critical functions such as account creation, mediation, provisioning, usage tracking, rating, billing, customer management, reporting, and analysis. Primal's integrated product suite provides a comprehensive "quick start" platform for providers of voice, data, content, and unified communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. , as well as field-proven scalability to support millions of subscribers. About Sylantro Systems Corp. Sylantro Systems is a software company providing the industry's premier suite of Hosted PBX & IP Centrex services, as well as other advanced managed telephony services, via the company's Applications Switch platform for next-generation networks. This award-winning set of services allows service providers to rapidly deploy and deliver high-margin, high-value telephony services. Sylantro's solutions offer an advanced class of managed telephony services that replace today's in-house PBX and key system offerings, and generate substantial new revenues for service providers. Sylantro 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. backed by premier investors. For more information, visit the company's website at www.sylantro.com. Note to Editors: Sylantro and Applications Switch are trademarks of Sylantro Systems Corporation. Access IM, Connect CCB, and Outfront CRM are trademarks of Primal Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. All other products and brands mentioned are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners. Forward-looking Statements This news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These statements involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the company's actual results or outcomes to be materially different from those anticipated and discussed herein. These include the company's historic lack of profitability, end-use customers' acceptance and actual demand, which may differ significantly from expectations, the need for the company to manage its growth, the need to raise funds for operations, and other risks associated with the regulation of the Internet and the telecommunications industry. Additional discussion of these and other factors affecting the company's business and prospects is contained in the company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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