Stakeholders
The following Stakeholders are partners to the IMS ARCS project: Adaptive Mobile, Mobile Aware, Solano Tech, LAKE Communications, Shenick, Openet, Voxpilot, O2, Rococo, Vennetics, Accuris Networks, Vodafone, Aran Technologies, Cellusys, 3PlayPlus, Anam, Openmind Networks, Eircom, Trust5, Business Runways, Alcatel Lucent, Cibenix, NCL Technologies.
Adaptive Mobile
The Adaptive Mobile Policy Control Framework provides protection against illegal or inappropriate content, mobile viruses and malware, and unsolicited or unauthorised communications. It works across all mobile services (WAP, SMS, MMS, email), all forms of access (Mobile, WiFi, WiMax) and for all media including mobile internet, text, images, music, voice and video. This unified protection ensures the growth of data ARPU for mobile and convergent operators, and reduces churn through increased customer profiling. Mobile operators globally are using the Policy Control Framework to respond to regulatory pressures, provide Parental Controls and extend corporate security policies through to mobile devices.
Mobile Aware
Principal Market Area: MobileAware is a vendor of adaptive technology for the Mobile Web, for use in mobile customer self-service and related Web commerce. This is a unified framework that can integrate with existing enterprise
systems to create mobile solutions across all lines of business. MobileAware's technology supports creative and adaptive user interfaces that work seamlessly across thousands of different mobile Web-enabled devices. Market-specific vertical solutions are available for particular sectors including airlines, banking, utilities, public transport and telecoms.
Solano Tech
SolanoTech is an Irish based Telecoms Software Product and Services Company specialising in Next Generation Services, particularly in the areas of IMS and IPTV. Founded in 2007 by Telecom Industry experts with extensive experience in fixed, mobile and wireless networks, the company has specialist expertise in combining competencies in Java enabling technologies, IMS, IN, IPTV, Telecom Legacy and NG Networks and Telecom Web Services. This expertise is focused on delivering 2nd Generation IMS enabled middleware solutions for IPTV and end to end IPTV System Integration for Service Providers. SolanoTech also offers specialised Telecommunication Design and Consultancy services (on IMS, NGN, Triple Play, IPTV etc) for Service Providers and Equipment Manufacturers.
LAKE Communications
LAKE Communications specialises in developing converged communications products for the Small Office & Home Office market segments. LAKE is one of the global leaders in this segment with distribution partners throughout Europe, US & Australia. LAKE employs 95 people in Dublin and Sligo, together with Sales & Support offices in Australia and the US. LAKE's operational strategy is to develop strong partnerships with channels that have leading brand recognition in their local territory. LAKE has a proven track record of growing significant market share through a combination of product excellence & strong brand awareness. LAKE's product line provides a unique combination of technology richness, reduced in-life costs and styling that compliments major brands such as BT, Telecom Italia, & Commander (Aus).
Shenick
Principal Market Area(s):Shenick develops per flow test and monitoring solutions for converged IP networks, Shenick's solutions are used to determine network Quality of Service and Quality of Experience for individual application flows.
Main Products:diversifEyeT - through its unique per-flow architecture provides test and performance measurements of advanced next generation networks through emulation of individual application flows such as Video, Voice and leading Data applications. diversifEye's per flow uniqueness is only outweighed by the superior performance measurements
delivered across individual flows to aggregated network nodes. Potential relevance of IMS: Shenick's interest in the IMS ARCS project is two fold, firstly to understand the type of applications that will be offered as a service on IMS enabled networks and secondly evolve the diversifEye product line so as to deliver the most advanced industry test solution for IMS networks and services.
Openet
Openet products are built on the FusionWorks Framework which gives the products their name and is the cornerstone for our suite of Transactional Intelligence solutions. The FusionWorks Framework provides carrier-grade performance, processing billions of events daily and managing thousands of transactions per second with low latency. The following products are built on the FusionWorks Framework: FusionWorks products integrate seamlessly with any network, enabling service providers to deploy highly configurable, convergent solutions to support voice, data, content, and multimedia services on one platform Potential relevance of IMS:Openet will have an interest in learning about IMS, what the existing billing protocols are, what types of systems, including service enablers, are involved in the delivery of the service for the purpose of collecting billing data, performing real-time charging and managing subscriber and session
policies.
Voxpilot
Voxpilot provides next generation IVR platforms & solutions to enterprises, integrators, carriers and service providers. Our flagship product, Voxpilot Open Media Platform (OMP), has been installed in a variety of networks across Europe, America, Africa and Asia. Our open standards platform enables self-service and advanced telephony applications using speech recognition, speech synthesis, call routing, conferencing, outbound and video calling functionality. The Open Media Platform supports IMS, SIP, ISDN & SS7 Networks. They are also pioneers in the field of Video IVR.
O2
O2 Ireland is a leading provider of mobile services, offering communications solutions to 1.6 million customers in Ireland. We have offices in Dublin, Cork and Galway as well as a Customer Care Centre in Limerick and a total workforce of over 1,700 employees. In 2006, O2 Ireland was named the best company to work for in Ireland and one of
the 10 best companies to work for in Europe. Until recently O2 Ireland was a wholly owned subsidiary of O2 plc. On March 7th 2006, O2 plc delisted from the London Stock Exchange, on completion of a corporate take-over of O2 by Telefónica S.A. O2 is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telefónica S.A., comprising mobile network operators in the UK and Ireland, along with integrated fixed/mobile businesses in Germany, the Czech Republic (Telefónica O2 Czech Republic) and the Isle of Man (Manx Telecom). It also owns 50% of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany respectively. As part of an enlarged company, O2 will build on its track record of
operational delivery, the strength of its brand, and the momentum it has established in all its markets.
Rococo
Rococo is a leader in Java/Bluetooth technology and social proximity frameworks. Rococo has licensed its software to handset manufacturers around the world, and to date, Rococo's software has shipped on over 150M mobile phones. Rococo is active in Java/Bluetooth, SIP Applications, and enterprise voice offerings that integrate the web and the regular voice network. Rococo has incubated the hands-free voice activation platform, Dial2Do, currently being split out as a separate entity from Rococo.
Vennetics
Vennetics is an internet age company that brings together a forward looking, business orientated team with proven experience in both the communications and information technology industries. They are committed to enabling mobile operators launch richer, better, simpler, and more integrated IP / mobile based services. Allowing operators to benefit from the significant commercial opportunities that are emerging as new IP based technologies and customer expectations evolve. Key to this strategy is their unique ability to link a subscribers mobile phone and PC enabling operators to extend their services to the PC screen. Vennetics work closely with mobile operators to drive greater profitability and value from their existing services such as voice, messaging, video, and content. In essence we enable operators convert their subscribers PC screens into a new, powerful and profitable sales channel.
Accuris Networks
The prinipal market area of Accuris is in the roaming and fixed mobile convergence solutions where their main products are AccuROAM which provides seamless subscriber roaming between existing cellular networks and IP based based networks, AccuROAM IIF which CDMA carriers to enable their subscribers to raom to GSM networks, AccuVANTAGE which managers subscribers roaming and controls the networks that they are
allowed to roam into, AccuPROFILE which allows over the air provisioning of CDMA handsets. Accuris has partnerships with HP, Tech Mahindra, Cicero Networks and e28.
Vodafone
Vodafone is Ireland's leading mobile communications operator with over 2.265 million customers and a market share of approximately 45%. Vodafone first entered the Irish market in May 2001, after acquiring Eircell in the largest deal ever in Irish corporate history, but their origins date back to 1984, when Ireland’s first mobile phone service was launched as part of the former state telco Telecom Eireann. Operating under the separate brand, Eircell, it enjoyed huge expansion in the late 1990s as mobile telephony was embraced in Ireland.
Aran Technologies
The principal marketing area of Aran Technologies is in customer experience management with its main product being Touchpoint. Touchpoint provides the World's most deployed and only end-to-end mobile customer
experience management software that delivers actionable business and technical options that enable operators to measurably grow customer revenue and satisfaction in real time over any network or device, 24x7.
Cellusys
Cellusys was founded in 2005. Cellusys currently employs 12 people, half of whom are women, with a sales director based between Dubai and Paris. Cellusys is a mobile telecommunications software company, which provides mobile network operators, system integrators and other businesses with a suite of software solutions for messaging, SMS conference calling, digital content delivery, mobile email and IP based voice systems.
3PlayPlus
3PlayPlus have formed partnerships with network operators to support the deployment of their services. 3PlayPlus do not offer services directly to business-end customers. Their solution can be completely white labeled and managed by their channel partners. 3PlayPlus can provide the technology solution alone or in tandem with full customer management.
Their principal marketing area is in Triple Play Services, however, triple play is not the end of the line for 3Playlus but a step towards becoming a true multi-service provider. 3PlayPlus concentrate on service design and delivery of these services to customers. Their strategy and is focused on the creation of innovative applications and services delivered to the customer within a flexible and cost effective pricing and packaging bundle.
ANAM
The principal marketing area of ANAM is in person to person messaging services/frameworks. The main product offered by ANAM is Eclipse SMSX which has been built specifically to handle all application-orientated and application-terminated traffic far more efficiently than traditional SMSC architectures. Of course, Eclipse SMSX can also handle all person-to-person traffic with ease, delivering a reduced load on the SS7 network. Smart service logic can provide messaging solutions across bearer technologies… therefore should work with IMS.
Openmind Networks
The main market area of openmind is in the provision of intelligent messaging routers. Their main product is Traffic Control,which is a feature rich multi-protocol message router which allows operators to build more efficient messaging networks. Customers in four continents use Openmind Networks products to provide services to hundreds of millions of
mobile subscribers. Openmind Networks has developed a suite of product extensions that extend the underlying capabilities of Traffic Control to address key business areas including spam and privacy protection, personalised service support and adaptation to standard compliant application servers.
Eircom
Eircom is an Irish fixed line telecoms provider, ISP and WiFi hotspot provider. It also owns the Mobile Network Operator, Meteor. Eircom offer a range of home phone solutions to the residental market, ranging from basic call services to calls plus broadband bundles. Eircom also offer a number of business solutions that offer a level of service far above that
demanded by the residential sector and specifically aimed at corporate customers. Eircom also acts as one of the many ISPs operating within Ireland. In addition to their corporate and residential broadband and dial-up services, they also offer a number of internet services such as e-mail and web space. The company is currently expanding their service
market into security services for online users.
Trust5
Trust5 already have a working relationship with O2 Ireland, where they manage the O2 Active mobile internet site. They have also designed, and host and manage the LFC WAP and MobileZone web sites on behalf of Liverpool FC.tv in partnership with O2 Ireland. Their main market area is in the mobile internet services and data services provider. Their main products are MimeCity which is a mobile community and networking service that enables users to share, communicate and collaborate online. MIME which enables users to create a customised and personalised mobile internet portal using an online interface and GameZine which delivers an easy to use and easy to find mobile games service.
Business Runways
The principal market area of business runaways is Data Management & Business Intelligence in the Telco space. They focus on Mobile & Fixed resellers and VoIP Service providers. Their main product is the Business Runways Business Intelligence Tool, an analytical tool to process large data blocks and provide high level information, protect against revenue leaks and raise alarms based on certain configurations.
Alcatel Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent represents the 2006 merger of two of the most innovative companies in the telecommunications sector. Both companies were active in research, design and implementation of fixed and mobile telecommunications
hardware and software. Both companies also operate professional service organisations which design and implement telecommunications networks on behalf of operators and enterprises alike. Their main focus is on IMS & Converged Networks products and services. This is still quite broad as they cover OAM (Operations & Management), OSS, service delivery platforms and the professional services required for design and implementation of bespoke systems to suit individual Network Operator’s requirements.
Cibenix
Cibenix is a leading provider of On-Device Portal (ODP) solutions for mobile operators, supporting data service search and discovery across the full range of platforms including Symbian, Microsoft and Java. Their award-winning products are installed on mobile devices across the globe in multiple languages. The Cibenix ODP helps the subscriber easily find and use data services in an efficient and comfortable offline model and then to go online to access those services. This offline model of service discovery, combined with a dynamically updatable user interface, provides a hugely positive
experience for the subscriber and leads to a proven increase in the usage of data services.
NCL Technologies
The main market area of NCL is in messaging products, SMS/MMS Gateways. Their main product is Provoto SMS/MMS Gateway which framework provides messaging technologies including SMS, MMS, EMS, Nokia Smart Messaging,
long messages, Push WAP, the proprietary SWAP messaging and long messaging. The product roadmap for Provato SMS MMS Gateway includes the proprietary messaging transaction model that allows applications to group
messages into single transactions and to rollback on groups of messages. Typical examples would be premium rate long messages (e.g. ring-tones over premium rate numbers) and instant/group messaging applications.
The platform provides interfaces to Short Messaging (SMS), Enhanced Messaging (EMS), Multimedia Messaging (MMS) and Smart Messaging (Nokia), and future proofs your applications.