Press Release:
Telcordia Leads TM Forum Excellence Awards Finalist Field
Telcordia's Innovative Fulfillment, Real-Time Charging, Hosted Solutions, Industry Information Infrastructure Initiatives Recognized
Piscataway, N.J., April 16, 2008 - The innovation, experience and reach of Telcordia, a strategic partner for communications service providers (CSPs) around the world, has been recognized by the TM Forum as an Excellence Awards Finalist for leadership in developing and delivering innovative solutions and for championing best practice across the industry. Telcordia has been shortlisted for three awards and winners will be announced at Management World 2008, being held May 18-22, 2008 in Nice, France.
Telcordia® Real-Time Charging and Hosted Solution and Telcordia® Common Language® Information Services have both been named as finalists for the Best Practices – Supplier award. The Telcordia Integrated Inventory solution, which won the IEC's Infovision award at Broadband World Forum 2007, is a finalist in the Excellence Awards Best New Management Product category.
"Telcordia continues to demonstrate rapid traction and innovation in a number of key areas that enable wireline and wireless CSPs to manage the evolution of their networks and business processes, and that allow them greater flexibility to meet the personalized needs of subscribers," said Mark Greenquist, CEO Telcordia. "As a proponent and driver of a myriad of TM Forum initiatives, Telcordia is a primary innovator across the fundamental disciplines of fulfillment, real-time charging, and industry information infrastructure services as we continue to deliver market-leading offerings that enable the industry to evolve, profit and grow."
Telcordia Real-Time Charging is a convergent online charging solution that can handle the demands of prepaid-postpaid, voice-data-content, fixed-mobile-cable, and circuit-packet convergence. It enables CSPs to drive revenue, foster customer loyalty and establish significant differentiation through the flexible delivery of personalized, customized services that subscribers increasingly expect and demand. It is available as licensed software or as a hosted solution on a single, feature-rich, platform for existing networks and can be migrated to an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environment.
Telcordia Common Language Information Services provides operators and equipment vendors with one well-defined, managed information infrastructure based on industry standards to help simplify systems integration and streamline internal operations and interactions with CSP partners, equipment vendors and regulators. Common Language Information Services is used by nearly 100 CSPs worldwide and provides the information foundation that is so critical to optimal automation.
Telcordia Integrated Inventory offers a strategic advantage to operators worldwide by combining detailed, real-time logical and physical inventory data to provide a single, federated view that is necessary for operators to make rapid and far reaching business decisions on how to use their network to deliver new services.
The Excellence Awards will be presented at a Gala Dinner at the Palais de la Méditerranée, Nice, on May 19, 2008. For more information about Telcordia visit www.telcordia.com. For more information about Telcordia's presence at the Management World 2008, visit www.telcordia.com/news_events/events/2008/tmw_nice.html.
Contact:
Sharon Oddy
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
(732) 699-4203
oddys@telcordia.com
Claudette Cameron
Mi liberty
+44 (0) 20 7751 4444
ccameron@miliberty.com