Press Release:
Easynet Selects Telcordia to Assist Rollout of Innovative Corporate Infrastructure, Application, Broadband Solutions
Pan-European operator in production in one week
Piscataway, NJ - May 16, 2006 - Underlining its leadership in the fulfillment marketplace, Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) today announces that Easynet, a pan-European data networks company owned by broadcast corporation BSkyB, has expanded its existing Telcordia® Granite Inventory deployment and also purchased Telcordia® Expediter to streamline order management and automate its end-to-end fulfillment processes. The powerful, pre-integrated Telcordia Fulfillment Suite solution gives Easynet a competitive time-to-market advantage that dramatically improves its agility and efficiency when rolling out new services in the dynamic European market.
"As a leading innovator in managed corporate end-to-end solutions, we value our relationship with Telcordia as it allows us to become a more agile solution provider at a time when flexibility and time-to-market are crucial to our success," said Tony Garcia, director group service delivery, Easynet. "Easynet relies on Telcordia, which has the ability to manage complexity, propel us into these new time-sensitive markets, and ultimately help us consolidate on new opportunities ahead of our competitors."
The Telcordia Fulfillment Suite, already deployed at Tier 1 carriers worldwide, reduces the complexity, time and expense normally associated with rolling out national and international network services. If fact, with this project, Telcordia implemented Expediter in just one week and reduced Easynet's order processing from days to hours.
As part of the comprehensive Telcordia Fulfillment Suite, Easynet can now swiftly build complex service bundles using graphical tools for end-to-end service design, resource and lifecycle management. Understanding first-hand the business benefits inherent in Telcordia's solution, Easynet is using this solution to replace its existing enterprise workflow management engine, and further enhance its ability to service its customers, suppliers, and business partners.
"Carriers and operators are looking for a great deal more from what used to be known as inventory solutions," said Andy Bairsto, Senior Analyst at Yankee Group. "This entire area is broadening out to encompass the entire range of fulfillment solutions, which now provide pre-integrated service design, resource and lifecycle management capabilities as they look to activate more services, more rapidly and reduce total cost of ownership in the process."
"Easynet operates one of the most powerful, high-capacity IP networks in Europe and Telcordia's solution will help them deploy innovative network services in weeks compared to the industry average of months," said Jon Collins, Vice President EMEA, Telcordia. "Telcordia has invested significantly in enhancing its comprehensive Fulfillment Suite in order to help carriers accelerate their time-to-market and time-to-revenue from new services and continue to solve the most pressing and complex business problems facing operators today."
The Telcordia Fulfillment Suite includes the newest releases of Telcordia Granite Inventory for provisioning, discovery and activation, and Telcordia Expediter for order management and product catalog. This enhanced suite simplifies the fulfillment process by enabling operators to make a single change in service definition and flow that is automatically funneled down to other support systems, instead of having to make multiple changes at each point in the process. This helps operators speed new services to market, better manage sophisticated services and seamlessly integrate existing systems, which results in increased network efficiencies and lower total cost of ownership. Deployed globally, Telcordia has significantly invested in enhancing its Fulfillment Suite and has extended Granite Inventory to support a service-oriented model that enables operators to more closely link service creation with service delivery.
Telcordia Expediter is a key component of the Fulfillment Suite and the Telcordia® Maestro™ IMS Portfolio. Expediter is a highly flexible, configurable order management and lifecycle management component of the Fulfillment Suite built specifically for telecom operators. It guides service orders from start to finish, handling order decomposition, routing, status tracking, business rule validation, message mapping, provisioning, activation, and billing. With the new Expediter Product Catalog Manager module, operators can quickly create, modify, and abandon service concepts as the needs of their customers evolve.
Granite Inventory, which has more than 50 customer deployments, is deployed in Tier 1, wireline, wireless and cable operators worldwide. Since acquiring Granite Systems, Inc., Telcordia has fully integrated the company's solutions into its next-generation OSS product line and has created an innovative and comprehensive fulfillment solution in anticipation of operators' evolving requirements. In line with the Telcordia® Elementive™ business approach and in support of the Maestro IMS Portfolio, Granite Inventory combines intelligent inventory, provisioning automation, and data synchronization functions in a single, open, flexible service fulfillment solution. The first to support J2EE™ standards, Telcordia Granite Inventory gives operators and their business partners the ability to easily configure the software to support the new applications and scale with Easynet services growth.
More information on the Fulfillment Suite, Granite Inventory, Expediter and other mission-critical Telcordia solutions can be found at www.telcordia.com.
About Easynet
Easynet is a corporate networks company with operations in eight European countries and a presence in eleven. It is a British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) company. BSkyB has a market capitalisation in excess of £9bn.
Easynet provides managed networks and hosting services to a diversity of sectors, including public sector, manufacturing, professional services, retail, logistics, construction, leisure, and travel.
Easynet works in partnership with its customers to identify their key business drivers and to deliver corporate data network services across its 21st century IP infrastructure. Across Europe, Easynet's European Corporate Customer Care team provides a 24-hour, single point of contact with local expertise, proactive monitoring and detailed customer reporting.
Easynet's customers include Oil & Vinegar, The Pier, Kelloggs Italia S.p,A, Bouygues Telecom, Kohler Mira and Tchibo. For more information visit www.easynet.com.
Contact:
Krista Wald
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
732-699-5050
kwald@telcordia.com
Simon Marshall
Liberty Communications
44 (020) 751-4444
simon@libertycomms.com
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