Telica Announces Industry's Most Advanced and Reliable Next-Generation Element Manager and Billing System for the Plexus 9000.Business/Technology Editors MARLBORO Marlboro or Marlborough (märl`bərō), city (1990 pop. 31,813), Middlesex co., E Mass.; settled on the site of a Native American village 1657, inc. as a city 1890. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 9, 2001 New Services Offer Total Network Control and Call Accounting for Continuous Revenue Generation Telica, Inc., a leading developer of intelligent multiservice switching platforms, today announced two new capabilities for its Plexus 9000 next generation switching platform. With these capabilities, service providers gain powerful, modular network management tools for legacy and next-generation service environments, as well as an accurate, highly reliable billing record generation system that can prevent lost revenue from network or processor failures. The Plexus 9000 redefines multiservice edge switching by offering the flexibility of either an integrated or distributed architecture for call control, switching, signaling, service intelligence and circuit/session aggregation. Service providers benefit from unprecedented flexibility to provision broadband and narrowband access and provide voice and data services. Existing network resources are optimized because the Plexus 9000 grooms traffic for the optical core, in addition to efficiently bridging the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. and packet-switched networks. This carrier-grade switching system features a fault-tolerant architecture designed to exceed the availability of current central office switches in a highly compact, NEBS Level 3 certified central office package. Breakthrough levels of density, performance and scalability easily handle a dynamic mix of circuit- and packet-switched traffic. "The PlexView Element Manager and the PlexView Billing System are mission-critical capabilities that service providers need to accelerate the provisioning of new services and to increase billing accuracy for non-stop revenue generation," said John St. Amand, 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 Telica, Inc. "With these applications, both incumbent and next-generation service providers can more rapidly integrate the Plexus 9000 into their network and quickly generate new revenue streams." PlexView Element Manager The PlexView Element Manager is a single solution for service provisioning, billing, performance monitoring and fault management in mission-critical environments. PlexView runs as a stand-alone management system to facilitate next-generation services, or integrates quickly and easily into existing support systems. In a stand-alone configuration, PlexView offers a highly scalable solution for monitoring a single Plexus 9000 switch or an entire Plexus network. PlexView's highly intuitive GUI delivers full visibility into network status and performance as well as greatly simplifying provisioning and maintenance operations. For environments with embedded Operations Support Systems Operations Support Systems (also called Operational Support Systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers. The term OSS most frequently describes "network systems" dealing with the telecom network itself, supporting processes such , the PlexView Element Manager's TL-1 gateway interface supports legacy OSSs such as Lucent's NFM and Telcordia's NMA systems. PlexView will also offer both CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. interfaces to interoperate with a broad range of forward-looking operations support systems and network management platforms. The PlexView Element Manager is built on a client/server architecture that offloads processing from the Plexus 9000 and allows management from a single or multiple Java-based clients. Its modular architecture allows the addition of optional modules for advance performance and traffic monitoring, as well as a customer network management (CNM CNM Certified Nurse-Midwife; see nurse-midwife. CNM abbr. Certified Nurse Midwife ) module. The PlexView Element Manager runs on Sun Solaris 2.7 or higher and will be generally available on February 15. PlexView Billing System The PlexView Billing System works as an extension of the Plexus 9000 to generate accurate call detail records (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. ) in critical revenue-generating environments with non-stop, non-drop performance. The fully redundant architecture of the Plexus 9000 allows for the storage of several million records, providing freedom from data network or billing processor failures that could impact record capture and revenue generation. For small networks, the PlexView Billing System converts CDRs into ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. formatted records that can be retrieved through an ODBC interface. For larger networks with high traffic volumes, Telica offers the PlexView Pro Billing System that provides additional record formatting, such as the standards-based 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 (BAF), interoperates with third party billing management systems from Lucent and others, and supports the verification and viewing of historical records and files. In addition, the PlexView Pro Billing System supports the AMADNS AMADNS Automatic Message Accounting Data Networking System AMADNS Ama Data Networking System (automatic message accounting Automatic Message Accounting (AMA) provides detail billing for telephone calls. When Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) was introduced in the USA, message registers no longer sufficed for dialed telephone calls. data networking system) architecture. The PlexView Billing System runs on Sun Solaris 2.7 or higher, and can function as a stand-alone application or in conjunction with the PlexView Element Manager System. It can be customized to meet many billing configuration options and support new AMA structure codes and module formats. Both the PlexView Billing System and PlexView AMA billing software, which supports up to eight switches, will be generally available on Feb. 15. About Telica Telica is a developer of intelligent multiservice broadband switching platforms for ILECs, CLECs and next generation service providers. Telica's Plexus 9000, a carrier-grade edge switching system, enables service providers to simplify their network architecture, normalize the switching and transport of voice and data traffic over a unified broadband packet network and enable highly cost-effective switched voice and data service delivery. Telica has received funding from Prism Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices located in Boston, Silicon Valley, Geneva, and Shanghai. Since its inception in 1988, the firm has invested in more than 180 early and growth stage companies and taken a sector-focused approach to investing in , Oak Investment Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. and Nassau Capital. Redback Networks (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 : RBAK) added its financial support on the corporate investment side. Telica was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Marlboro, MA, with offices in Colorado, Texas, Virginia, Georgia and Toronto. Trademark Note Telica, the Telica logo, Plexus and PlexView are trademarks of Telica, Inc. Other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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