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16th September 2004 - Text and voice infrastructure
supplier Telsis has added interoperability with Siemens
core network switches to its proven Ocean fastSCP intelligent
services platform, making flexible and economical value
added services available to yet more telcos.
The move means network operators with single vendor
or multi vendor networks based on Ericsson, Nokia and
now Siemens switches - as well as those from Telsis
- can easily and seamlessly roll out identical services
to all their subscribers, irrespective of which vendor’s
switch they are connected to.
Customers of Germany’s largest independent, locally
operating telco EWE TEL will be the first to benefit.
EWE TEL is now using its Telsis Ocean fastSCP to add
intelligent call routing and interactive services to
its 10 Siemens core network switches. The alternative
would have been a switch upgrade costing around five
times more than the Telsis solution.
“We are very proud to be driving the services
market in Germany. Other telcos simply cannot offer
this level of services to their customers,” says
EWE TEL’s Thorsten Thews, leader of the company’s
intelligent networking group. “Upgrading the switches
themselves would have cost 500% more and would not have
given us the flexibility of a Web interface for programming.”
At EWE TEL, a Telsis fastSCP controls Siemens EWSDs
via intelligent network application protocol (INAP),
adding intelligent call routing and interactive services
that were previously unavailable. The fastSCP was originally
installed to provide similar facilities via Telsis switches,
and subsequently extended to support Nokia switches
in another part of the telco's network.
The success of this earlier move influenced the decision
to go with Telsis again. “It means we can simply
roll out the same proven services across the whole of
our network and save a lot of effort in development,”
says André Wieschollek, head of switching systems.
“Now all of our customers can benefit and we can
even think about selling services to customers of other
telcos too.”
The EWE TEL contract further underlines Telsis’
commitment to the German market. Recently the company
gained approval to the ITU-T Q.788 requirement for the
latest version of the Ocean fastSSP, its flagship programmable
switching platform.
The fastSCP is a flexible, high performance platform
for controlling network elements including Telsis’
own fastSSP and fastIP intelligent peripheral, together
with third-party switches using INAP. Each fastSCP supports
up to 10 000 simultaneous calls and features its own
fastSCE service creation environment for the rapid development
and deployment of new applications.
With its headquarters, research and production site
in the UK, Telsis (www.telsis.com) has sales and support
operations in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands,
Spain, Singapore and Australia. The company offers a
range of carrier-grade infrastructure platforms including
intelligent SMS Routers, IN service control points,
switches, protocol converters and advanced IVR solutions
that support a wide variety of innovative value-added
text and voice services. Telsis products are in use
with major fixed and mobile network operators around
the world.
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