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Carrier Call and Versatel agree on extended cooperation.
Versatel is using the software solutions and services of the
Swiss solutions provider Carrier Call to build out the Voice Carrier
business unit.
Carrier Call is responsible for consulting, delivery,
installation; integration and long term build out of a complex trading- and
administration-application to the telecommunication solutions business unit
responsible for Versatel’s carrier domain.
Versatel performed over the last six month an intensive and
detailed evaluation process comparing the solutions of all major providers;
we are pleased that Carrier Call was selected by Versatel. Carrier Call has
shown high flexibility and convinced Versatel with its agility to adapt to
changing requirements. Being able to realize the complex project within the
given time-frame Carrier Call was able to outperform its competition.
The integrated solution offered by Carrier Call forms the
basis of Versatel’s Next Generation Network (NGN).
The solution contains delivery and integration of:
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The
Voice Trading Platform XCarrier by Carrier Call
containing all required and automated interfaces to existing systems.
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The
complete Rating and Guiding Platform XRate
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The
fully built out Traffic and Quality Management Platform
XStat
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The
XBilat application to handle and administer bilateral
agreements and to supervise the fulfillment.
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The
comprehensive XConverter Platform to convert and aggregate
binary data streams generated by Voice Switches.
Schinznach-Dorf, June 23, 2008
– Carrier Call, provider of integrated software solutions to solve the
complex problems of the telecommunications domain is pleased to announce
Versatel, one of the largest providers of Voice-, Internet- and Data-
Services for Private and Business customers as a new significant customer of
its fully integrated XCarrier by Carrier Call solution.
XCarrier
by Carrier Call is an extensive integrated product suite based on
most modern decentralized
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 issues for 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 Versatel, builds an important part for any service
provider building a NGN (Next Generation Network) of integrated services.
About Versatel
Versatel AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(Frankfurt: VTW) and is one of the largest alternative providers of voice,
Internet and data services for residential and business customers on the
German market. Versatel has a strong local and regional presence in the
German broadband market. Covering 12 of the 16 German states and 28 of the
50 largest German cities, the company has a market coverage – based on its
own calculations – equivalent to some 25% of all German households in the
potential coverage range. Versatel is Germany’s third largest
infrastructure-based telecommunications provider in terms of revenue. In
2007, the company generated preliminary sales of €700 million and had over
680,000 customers under contract at the end of the year. Versatel has a
workforce of approximately 1,400 at 14 locations.
Further information:
www.versatel.de
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), Canoo
(Rich Interactive Client), Enterest
EDR Workbench (OEM conversion Module), JasperSoft (Reporting)
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.
Full Pressrelease on Pressportal
August 2007
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.
Full Pressrelease on Pressportal
July 2007
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.
Full Pressrelease on Pressportal
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.
January 2007
Telecom Advisors International S.A. announces the availability of the
XCarrier Product Suite as a SaaS
(software as a service) offering as a managed service for the Latin America
and the Caribbean market. XCarrier
is a complete solution for international wholesale carriers with modules for
carrier margin management and least cost routing processes. Telecom Advisors
International S.A. as qualified and preferred partner will host
XCarrier for the Latin America and
Caribbean market in their Hosting Center in Panama City. Customers with SaaS
or ASP needs have direct regional access to a secure and professionally
hosted environment. Regional Support in local languages and access to
premium class services allows carriers in Latin America and the Caribbean
regions to grow and improve the quality of their important wholesale
business.
Announcement from Telecom Advisors International S.A.
May 2006Telecom Advisors International S.A. announces
availability of the XCarrier voice trading platform and related
consultancy services for the Latin America market. Telecom Advisors International S.A. attends the TeleManagement World in Nice from May 15 - 18, 2006
and will have demonstrate the new XCarrier voice trading platform in their
exhibition booth. Announcement from Telecom Advisors International S.A.
March 2006Canoo Engineering AG is announcing the availability of the XCarrier 4.0 trading platform.
A case study about the Carrier Call voice carrier trading platform is
available on the canoo Engineering AG web-site. Announcement and case study voice carrier trading platform
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