Florida-based Ocius Communications has selected Protek to supply customer care and billing (CCB) and service provisioning (SP) systems for its patent-pending Very high bit rate DSL (VDSL) network.
Ocius offers next-generation broadband services such as hundreds of digital TV channels, high speed Internet access, voice telephony and video-on-demand; future offerings include VOIP, virtual private networks (VPN), interactive gaming, data storage and other innovative, value-added services.
This project underscores Protek`s OSS technology leadership for ATM/IP transport networks and its commitment to providing quality systems for VDSL and other high-speed digital access service providers, a market expected to reach $19 billion in revenues by 2005, say analysts with Adams Media Research.
"We must be able to provision digital, wide-bandwidth services in real time and charge for actual usage in order to maximise business returns. We considered all leading billing vendors, but realised Protek`s usage-based billing system measures our digital, high-bandwidth services most accurately.
"As an integrated services provider, it is also crucial that our systems work in a multi-technology environment and interface with our workforce management system," said Ted Mahoney, President and Founder, Ocius Communications.
"Beyond meeting these requirements, Protek`s payment structure affords long-term savings for our growing subscriber base."
Because Protek`s systems can process usage data, Ocius gains the billing and provisioning management needed to assess and deliver its digital, multimedia services in real time. This will give Ocius greater business efficiency than pre-paid or post-paid services rating could provide.
Furthermore, Ocius can offer its business and consumer subscribers, high bandwidth services and various applications on one line and on one bill. Ocius can also charge third parties for subscriber bandwidth pulls and achieve increased revenues, as interactive marketing via content delivery becomes viable.
"We are very proud to partner with Ocius by assisting their delivery of innovative, high bandwidth services and are confident this project will establish our capture of the high speed digital access market here in America and abroad," said Rick Aguirre, General Manager-Americas, Protek.
"Additionally, this project demonstrates that our broad range of communications management functionality and open systems platform make us the ideal infrastructure partner for multimedia service providers."
In order to achieve a successful implementation, Protek`s project team will interface Protek CCB and SP systems to Ocius`s workforce management system. Protek will also develop accurate and extensive mediation capabilities for Ocius`s high-speed digital service transport.
"The time for bottom line OSS has arrived," said Seth Waites, Director of Gartner`s OSS Consulting. "OSS vendors need to provide carriers with integrated products that either reduce costs or increase revenue. Protek`s ability to provide provisioning, mediation and billing as well as other critical OSS capability gives carriers a competitive advantage and is a huge improvement over best-of-breed systems that are overly-engineered, overly-expensive and require lengthy systems integration."
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Founded in 1999, Florida-based Ocius Communications is a video, data and voice service provider targeting residential broadband customers.
Ocius`s next-generation network augments last-mile connectivity to deliver digital television, high-speed Internet connections and voice services. Ocius reaches diverse markets with selective programming and advertising from targeted data.
It offers premier customer assistance through specialized service initiatives. Corresponding business services will also include application hosting. For more information, please call (877) 772-2104.
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