News Archive 2007
Carrier Call adds a
member to its management team
To keep up with the growing customer base and the
requirements to implement even more complex processes and projects Carrier
Call has extended its management team by hiring Claudia Toth as Manager of
Consulting and System Engineering for the XCarrier voice trading platform.
While Carrier Call grows continuously and adds skilled employees throughout
its organization it is essential to have a management team with in-depth
relevant industry experience to successfully implement customer wishes.
Claudia Toth joins Carrier Call, after having worked as telecommunication
and wholesale engineer and manager of wholesale activities at COLT Telecom
and eTel Austria. Ms. Toth is well know in the European and international
telecommunication wholesale industry and respected for her experience in
wholesale trading activities. Carrier Call and foremost our customer base
will benefit from her experience and skills. We are proud to welcome Claudia
in our team.
Carrier Call embeds JasperReports library in it's own product line
With growing demand from customers for a flexible and
professional reporting solution Carrier Call decides to integrate and
license the world best reporting engine available in today's software
market. JasperReports provides flexible reporting capabilities embedded in
the XCarrier voice trading platform. This step demonstrates again Carrier
Call's leadership in providing innovative and cost effective solutions for
the voice carrier wholesale market. Build using its own Java based
Framework, Carrier Call is able to act and react extremely fast to new
demands from customers, governments or regulators without the hassle of
long-winded redesigns and re-implementations. The new reporting
functionality will be available in the next XCarrier Version and can be used
by all XCarrier customers. JasperReports allows generating black/white and
color reports for immediate printing or for saving and storing reports in
different file formats. A wide variety of dashboards, tables, crosstabs,
charts and gauge styles is supported and available for combination in
reports.
Carrier Call adopts Swiss made software label
Swiss made stands for ...
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quality
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reliability
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precision
The "swiss made" label is most commonly
known from Swiss watches. But Switzerland has a lot more to offer! Large
software companies like Google, IBM, or Microsoft have discovered the
benefits of the small Helvetic country and all three have established important
development centers in Switzerland. Upon an initiative by Luc Haldimann (anycase
gmbh), Swiss software development now has received a label and developers
are starting to mark their software with the "swiss made software" logo.
Important: the false or misleading use of "SWISS MADE" is prohibited by
law. There are two conditions that must be fulfilled for goods to be labeled
as being of Swiss origin:
The Swiss portion of the production cost must be at least 50%.
The most important part of the manufacturing process must have taken place
in Switzerland.
Carrier Call and Kabel Deutschland agree on broad strategic
collaboration.
As part of a strategic relationship Kabel Deutschland decides
to use software solutions and professional services offered by Carrier Call,
a Swiss Software Company, to continue the development of their voice carrier
business.
As part
of this collaboration Carrier Calls provides professional services related
to the delivery, installation, integration and deployment of a Voice Trading
Platform for the Voice Carrier Business. Carrier Calls integrated solution
is used as basis of Kabel Deutschlands
Next Generation Network
(NGN). Carrier Call will
deploy the following components, all part of the integrated solution
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The
Voice Trading Platform
XCarrier
by Carrier Call including the required and automated interfaces
to other systems.
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The
complete wholesale billing platform
XRate
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The
complete Traffic and Quality Management platform
XStat
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The complete
Reconciliation platform
XRecon
Schinznach-Dorf, 31. August 2007
– Carrier Call, manufacturer of complex software solutions for the
telecommunications industry adds Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable
net operator to the list of clients for its integrated solution
XCarrier
by Carrier Call.
XCarrier by
Carrier Call is an integrated product suite based on most modern
client/server technologies. The software solution supports highly complex
business processes in gathering, matching, analyzing and maintaining data
related to telecommunications voice carrier services. Data encompasses
destination code lists (DCL), price lists and call detail records (CDR) just
to name a few. Underlying data allows making informed decisions in real time
and ties seamlessly into operational systems.
The
XCarrier
solution serves
as Input System by gathering data from other systems, but also as output
system with capabilities including generation of sales side price list and
configuration files for voice switches to support least cost routing (LCR).
The
XCarrier
integrated Voice Trading Platform uses a central repository as a solid base
to eliminate data matching errors between external offers and internal
systems, to improve and refine the quality of data and to optimize
operational systems and routing. Carrier Calls solutions allow decisions-,
business- and operational- support and help automating key processes. All
these factors help to increase margins, improve profitability and allow
crystallizing new components in the value chain to define new sources of
income. Improved margins and new services are key for a Telecommunications
Operators to consolidate market position and secure leadership in very
competitive markets.
The
XCarrier
Voice Trading Platform supports traditional fix-net telephony, mobile
telephony and telephony using IP infrastructure (VoIP). The complete
solution, as used by Kabel Deutschland, builds an important part for any
service provider building a NGN (Next Generation Network) of integrated
services.
About Kabel Deutschland
Kabel Deutschland (KDG)
operates cable networks in 13 German states and supplies its services to
more than 9 million connected TV households in Germany. Kabel Deutschland is
Germany's largest cable network operator. The company develops and markets
new triple play offers for digital TV, high-speed Internet and telephone
connection via cable. KDG offers an open digital TV platform for all program
providers. The company operates the networks, markets cable connections and
provides comprehensive services for all matters of cable connectivity. In
fiscal year 2006/2007 (12 months ended March 31, 2007), Kabel Deutschland
reported a total revenue of approx. EUR 1.1 billion. The company has around
2,700 employees.
About Carrier Call
Carrier Call builds
solutions to solve the complex problems of the international
telecommunications market. The Swiss Software and Services Company develop
all solutions with its own development team in-house. Carrier Call uses its
long-term industry specific knowledge as well as feedback from customers to
constantly refine and enhance its solutions. Software is designed,
developed and tested using a standards based framework.
Components of leading
technology companies like Oracle (Data Base), SUN Microsystems (Java) and
Canoo (Rich Interactive Client) allow fast realization of solutions based on
changing market needs. The Modular
XCarrier
by Carrier Call Voice Trading Platform is a software suite provided
under a traditional software license agreement but is also made available as
ASP and SaaS (Software as a Service) offering.
XCarrier by Carrier Call available
on Oracle 11g
In an increasingly competitive world, business executives depend on
Information Technology (IT) to make more effective use of information,
streamline business processes and control costs.
July 11th, 2007 - Carrier Call Ltd. today announces the availability of its
voice trading solution XCarrier
by Carrier Call, based on the Oracle Database 11g. Shortly after the Oracle
Database release 11g is made available to the public. The new
XCarrier by Carrier Call release
benefits from new features and capabilities of Oracle 11g. Customers and
users of XCarrier by Carrier Call
benefit immediately from new functionality and performance enhancements of
the database release.
Features are:
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New partitioning capabilities make it easier to deploy multiple
storage tiers based on activity and manage information throughout it's
entire lifecycle,
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New Advanced Compression Option reduces the amount of storage
required and helps businesses maximizing storage usage and reducing
overall costs while maintaining the highest levels of system
availability and performance, and
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SecureFiles compression and deduplication improves the performance
and security of file-based data stored in the database providing an
excellent infrastructure for the storage of complex data types.
As a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Carrier Call Ltd. continues to
set new standards in the telecommunication wholesale carrier industry by
implementing the markets first voice trading platform based on Oracle 11g.
Voice trading customers demand a highly scalable backend with extreme short
response times. Inter carrier voice minute trading is a real-time activity
where inadequate performance of the trading system can cause loss of
revenue, loss of customers or increased cost. To guarantee positive margins
you need to be able to make the best offer to your customers at the right
time. Only a system based on a platform like Oracle 11g with high
performance and high scalability delivers customer satisfaction and
guarantees economic success in a high volume, small margin business. These
are the reasons why Carrier Call Ltd. relies since the first release of the
XCarrier by Carrier Call voice
trading system on Oracle application server and Oracle database technology.
XCarrier by Carrier Call is
the first fully integrated enterprise voice trading platform for a new
generation of ambitious wholesale voice carriers. Improved margins,
increased revenue opportunities, elimination of code mismatches and
optimized operating efficiencies through
XCarrier deliver the key fundamentals to stay ahead of the
competition in today’s fast changing voice carrier market. Voice carriers
must improve profitability through cost management while finding new ways to
generate revenue. Consequently, managing product portfolios and automating
business processes are the key strategies for safeguarding the long-term
financial health of voice carriers. Carrier Call’s
XCarrier enables carriers worldwide to optimize and
automate their business decisions and supports building additional value and
profitability. XCarrier combines
and improves financial and operational aspects of a business.
XCarrier enables and supports
streamlined business processes, providing the business with full control
over the financial and operational aspects of an improved margin management
system. XCarrier is a highly
scalable enterprise system that adapts to current and future needs and grows
with your business.
Watch our interactive how-to. In just 5 minutes you will discover how
XCarrier by Carrier Call can help
improve your margins, increase your revenue opportunities, point out
code mismatches and improve your operating efficiencies. Carrier Call is
providing this interactive presentation to all potential new customers to
get a first hand impression about the capabilities of the
XCarrier voice trading platform. Watch
the interactive presentation and try yourself the learned transaction in the
available online version of XCarrier
by Carrier Call.
Carrier Call starts an international advertisement
campaign showing the benefits of the XCarrier
by Carrier Call SaaS (Software as a Service) offering.
XCarrier by Carrier Call is offered as
pure software license, ASP package or SaaS offering. These different levels
make XCarrier suitable for voice
carriers of all sizes. Whether new startup voice carrier, VoIP carrier,
cable network provider with triple play offering or large sized
multinational voice carriers; Carrier Call has an offer that suits your size
and needs. The demand of buying services instead of pure software licenses
grew dramatically over the last half year. Customers prefer integrated
service solutions over pure software licensing. Attractive pricing and
flexible licensing made the new SaaS model the right choice for any
telecommunication carrier or carrier with old legacy software solutions in
place which can be replaced through our service offering. Download our
whitepapers from our document
download area to see how you can benefit from
XCarrier by Carrier Call and how your
investment will be paid back in short time.
Carrier Call continues to invest in its infrastructure
for SaaS and ASP services for their voice trading platform
XCarrier by Carrier Call. With the
integration of the newest generation Sunfire Server from SUN Microsystems
and latest generation Intel based dual CPU / Quad core XEON Processor
Systems, Carrier Call now supports most modern hardware technology for their
continuously growing SaaS and ASP customer base. With this investment,
Carrier Call demonstrates again its leader position. Martin Christen, CTO of
Carrier Call, comments: “I feel confident, that our enterprise customers
will appreciate the top performance we are able to deliver for our hosted
services. We run our XCarrier by
Carrier Call SaaS trial service on a Sunfire Server from SUN Microsystems
with AMD 64Bit CPU equipped hardware; which should convince our potential
customers of the exceptional performance they can expect from us in a
production deployment.” We invite potential customers to test drive the
XCarrier by Carrier Call voice
trading platform at our
corporate web site to experience the performance and ease of use of the
application.
Carrier Call re-launches its customer service and support
portal on a new, reliable and customer friendly platform. The highly
integrated WebExOne platform uses a user interface where users with
Microsoft Office experience will feel immediately feel at home. Carrier Call
customers now have access to personal and customer specific information and
data accessible over a secure Internet connection.
Features include:
• A complete virtual office
• Error and issue tracking database
• Knowledgebase
• Bulletin board
• Section with frequently asked questions
These key services are important to keep informed and
connected Carrier Call’s continuously growing customer base. Are you
interested? Try Carrier Call’s customer portal at
https://ccvoffice.webexone.com and login with account name Guest.
Certain services are only available to registered customers.
Carrier Call introduces a
third, new licensing model for its voice trading platform XCarrier. With customer demanding higher level of services instead of pure software licenses, Carrier Call introduces a
Software as a Service (SaaS) model Standard software licensing as well as an ASP package have been available for some time.
The new SaaS package is specially designed for:
Customers requiring an integrated voice trading platform with interfaces to existing billing, finance and voice switch elements. SaaS customers are usually Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Customer requirements include the need for handling large volumes of trading data, flexible changes in routing and pricing tables, provisioning of voice switches and generating sales price lists. Characteristic of such a customer is usually an international presence with one interconnection point of presence and more then 10 interconnections to different national and international carriers. SaaS customer receive from Carrier Call, with little up-front investment in Hardware and Software, a fully maintained
and supported platform with strong business and service support. Please use our contact form to
receive more information about the different XCarrier licensing models. | 
News 2007
