Kabira to Share Strategies for Improving BSS/OSS and Process Efficiencies at Billing & OSS World Conference and Expo 2008

Kabira Telecom Solutions Provide Flexibility to Meet Near-term Financial Pressures While Positioning for Differentiated Offerings of the Future

Kabira representatives will be on hand to discuss how the Kabira Transaction Platform, Kabira Provisioning and Service Activation and Kabira Charging products can be leveraged by customers to meet the challenges and risks associated with today’s unpredictable economy. “Kabira’s highly reliable, high performance system flexibly integrates telecom transaction processing, in batch or real-time within a multi-service provider environment,” stated Dan Geiger, Kabira product marketing director for telecom. “Functions currently handled in BSS/OSS silos can be integrated into a single platform.”

“Kabira technology delivers major performance improvements for transactional business applications because of its 64-bit, memory resident architecture,” explained Bruno Rossi, product manager for telecom charging solutions for Kabira Technologies. “Since our solutions tap memory resident data, there is far less need to pull information from remote databases in order to perform necessary transactional processes. By functioning at “memory speed” and not “database speed’, performance improvements of up to 10 to 20 fold are attainable.”

With this type of performance improvement, service providers need fewer servers to handle skyrocketing transaction volume, therefore savings are inherent, a smaller footprint is required and energy consumption is reduced. The ability to smoothly scale in response to demand growth is also enhanced.

“Today, it’s more the norm than the exception that telecom service providers are embarking on huge renovations of their billing or provisioning and activation systems,” said Dan Geiger. “When companies are faced with the current volatile market conditions, Kabira solutions can be deployed to postpone large-scale overhaul and still cost-effectively accommodate increases in transaction volume.” Geiger explained, “This is an example of a ‘One Step Back — Two Steps Forward’ situation. Economic forces delay full-scale renovation in the short-term, but flexibility from the interim Kabira solution positions the company to more rapidly activate and deliver emerging services like 3G and ‘Triple Play’ and those that work in both pre- and post-paid environments.”

Kabira solutions can help companies leverage existing BSS/OSS investment and systems and provide a migration path for next generation networks. Moreover, with the flexibility of Kabira technology, telecom services providers can build custom solutions to meet their specific needs. Kabira solutions include network and service enablers so customers can build solutions that satisfy their current requirements, as well as those for the future.