Tatara and Airpath Offer Carriers Turnkey Wireless Solutions; Companies Partner to Make Available Network Footprint with Wireless Services.ACTON, Mass. and WALTHAM, Mass. -- Tatara Systems, the market leader in mobile services convergence, and Airpath Wireless, the leader in enabling management and roaming The ability to use a communications device such as a cellphone or PDA and be able to move from one cell or access point to another without losing the connection. for wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 networks, today announced a partnership and joint marketing agreement. By leveraging Airpath's clearinghouse, carrier-class roaming, and operational support systems capabilities with Tatara's Mobile Services Convergence Platform, service providers can quickly acquire footprint to deploy and manage wireless broadband services. The combined solution has been jointly certified See certification. enabling service providers to accelerate their time to revenue for new mobile services across a variety of devices and networks. "Partnering with Tatara greatly enhances the value we can extend to carriers by offering a complete solution," said George McHorney, president of Airpath. "Simplifying deployments and enabling service providers to tap into a flexible roaming ecosystem are the first step towards offering converged mobile services." "Fragmentation (1) Storing data in non-contiguous areas on disk. As files are updated, new data are stored in available free space, which may not be contiguous. Fragmented files cause extra head movement, slowing disk accesses. A defragger program is used to rewrite and reorder all the files. across Wi-Fi operators has made it complicated and expensive for content and service providers to cost effectively enter the business," said analyst Deb Mielke of Treillage Network Strategies. "Making end-to-end turnkey solutions available is important for content providers and smaller carriers due to their more limited resources and infrastructure constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 14(1):1-39 (Aug 1980)]. ." Airpath's InterRoam offers service providers an online tool to acquire and make roaming footprint available to their end users and to manage and deploy wireless services around the globe. InterRoam delivers an online, e-commerce exchange for roaming contract management and a clearing and settlement platform for inter-provider authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , clearing and settlement services. By integrating with Tatara's Converged Mobile Services Platform, service providers are able to obtain a turnkey solution including everything from service provider specific branding and 3G/Wi-Fi connection management on client devices to an array of new offerings such as converged messaging, VoIP and intelligent content delivery. "As a neutral roaming broker, Airpath delivers a unique set of capabilities to providers looking to capitalize upon the large demand for mobile wireless offerings," said Steve Nicolle, 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. and President of Tatara. "We have already successfully extended this value to the market as evidenced with a recent commercial deployment by a service provider in Europe. Streamlining the service commercialization process enables providers to apply more focus to offering value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services beyond basic wireless connectivity." About Tatara Systems Tatara Systems invents, develops, and deploys solutions for service and content providers who want to deliver converged mobile offerings to their customers across networks and devices. Tatara's Mobile Services Convergence Platform(TM) makes it possible to deliver a rich and consistent set of services and content over multiple IP access networks and across secure client connections to laptops, PDAs, and smartphones providing the ultimate in real-time control Real-time control is a popular term for a certain class of digital controllers. For effective digital control, it is critical that sample time be constant. Real-time control achieves nearly constant sample time. See also
VoIP Mobile requires a mobile handset that supports, at minimum, high speed IP communications. , and intelligent content delivery all independent of network ownership. For more information, visit www.tatarasystems.com About Airpath Wireless, Inc. Airpath Wireless, Inc. is "clearing the way," enabling providers to easily manage their wireless broadband networks and roaming. Using its powerful hosted-software applications, Airpath enables providers with the flexible tools and services to manage their business, offering seamless, global access to wireless broadband services across disparate networks on a global scale. Founded in 2001, the company is a privately held, venture-funded corporation with lead investments from Boston Millennia Partners. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. . For more information, visit www.airpath.com. |
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