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Nakina Systems provides one platform to discover, secure and manage multi-vendor networks. Using Nakina's software, service providers expedite the rollout of next-generation services, improve and automate routine management tasks and reduce the 'OSS Integration Tax' by rationalizing the number of management systems required.

As a single point of integration between any vendors' networking products and higher-level management applications, the Nakina Network OS™ reduces operating expenses, bolsters identity management security, and improves workflow productivity by automating operations like software upgrades, backup and restore, discovery, fault, performance and configuration management. And it's all with one system. Only from Nakina.

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Verizon Business Case Study
Nakina Systems Product Brochure
Nakina Systems Security Brochure
FAQ - Maximizing ROI from Your EMS for Service Provider Executives
FAQ - Maximizing ROI from Your EMS for Network Equipment Vendor Execs

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Progress Software provides a portfolio of best-in-class service infrastructure products to build, deploy and manage service-oriented architectures. The Progress SOA Suite delivers robust, agile SOA infrastructure for the real world of business-critical processes that span many platforms and many locations.

Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator addresses the challenge of data interoperability for service-oriented architectures, bringing the same agility to data that SOA does to processes. DataXtend Semantic Integrator uses a common model to mediate the differences between the data models of applications and services, enabling enterprises to reduce the complexity and cost of their SOA implementations while improving agility.

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Forrester white paper: Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA
Using the SID in OSS/BSS Integration white paper

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Progress DataXtend SI datasheet
eBook by Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Progress Software -
     SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture. Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges.
IBM Redbook Executive Brief: Implementing Technology to Support SOA Governance
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Sigma Systems is the proven global leader in delivering advanced IP service fulfillment solutions. Sigma’s powerful OSS software solutions enable the world’s Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to deliver any service, over any access technology, to any device. The company’s award winning, end-to-end service fulfillment solutions include products for the ordering, delivery, and management of individual, bundled, and converged services.

Sigma’s heritage includes over 12 years of proven solution delivery experience in multi-service, multi-technology operating environments. Today, Sigma manages nearly 50 deployments and has delivered approximately 100 million services for communications service providers worldwide.

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Openet is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions.  We remain focused on delivering best-in-class network edge solutions and specialized engagement processes that create business value from network activity.

Through its open architecture and modular design Openet’s core product, the FusionWorks™ Platform, serves as the scalable foundation for a range of Openet products; Convergent Mediation, Convergent Charging, Network Edge Rating, Policy Manager and Balance Manager.

A global company, Openet’s implementations include long-running engagements with the world’s leading service providers such as Sprint, BT, TIM, Orange, Telemar Oi, O2, AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Telstra.

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Click Here for Openet News and Events

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Whitepaper "Real Time Charging for Convergent Services: Practical Help from the IMS Standards"
Whitepaper "Trendwatch: What's Driving Next Generation Services in 2008"

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LTC International provides leading companies in the telecommunications and IT sectors with a unique level of service based on true subject matter expertise. Our Business Operations Architects® each have at least ten years of hands-on experience in service provider and IT intensive companies. Our consulting team has experience in all areas of business profit optimization, wireless and wireline communications, Internet services, as well as software and hardware planning, implementation and operations.

LTC has incorporated more than 1,000 years of first hand operating company and software application experience into our Business Management Toolkit. This comprehensive set of tools, guidelines, checklists, templates and training programs is designed to remove uncertainty and accelerate success for our clients.

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With over 3000 attendees from service providers and their suppliers coming from over 70 countries Management World is the global event for Information, Communications and Entertainment services delivery in an on-line world. The event covers service delivery, from the business drivers to the technology and systems that design, deliver, monitor and bill for them in:

• Over 120 hours of conferences
• 120 hours of training courses
• Over 120 exhibitors and unique live Catalyst demonstrations

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Communications is your business. NXTcomm08 is your show.
June 16-19, 2008. Don’t miss the one event delivering the entire ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data. From VoIP and IPTV to WiMAX and wireless, the key players that drive communications and the technology and services making history converge here.

More than 200,000 net square feet of exhibit space

• More than 20,000 attendees from 100+ countries
• More than 500 exhibitors from around the world
• More than 475 members of the press and analyst communities
• More than 100 keynote addresses, sessions and conferences

Register for free at NXTcommShow.com by using the pass code: PLP8

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The Cable Show, hosted by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), is the annual showcase and gathering place that unites the cable telecommunications industry for three concentrated days of networking, learning and collaboration. It's the ultimate opportunity for cable telecommunications professionals to discover new products, advances in technology, and innovative ways to increase customer satisfaction and grow their businesses.

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NEW PARADIGM RESOURCES GROUP, Inc. (NPRG) is the nation’s leading strategic consulting and research firm for innovators within the communications industry.  NPRG provides business strategy and technology advice to our clients.  To accomplish this, we identify, analyze and forecast emerging technologies and trends, support mission critical decision-making processes for service providers, technology developers and financial institutions, and deliver proven business strategies, product plans and market forecasts, enabling clients to succeed within evolving market conditions.

NPRG has long published an extensive array of industry analysis reports to keep up with the ongoing competitive, technological and product evolution. To present our data and analyses on a continuous basis, NPRG has moved to a completely online, dynamic set of Continuous Information & Advisory Services^SM presenting all the sectors we cover, including the CLECs, in the dynamic delivery format.

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Billing & Information Management Systems 2008
June 8-12th, Beurs Van Berlage, Amsterdam
http://www.iir-billingsystems.com/pipeline

Now in its 15th year, this event offers you an unparalleled learning experience, plus the opportunity to meet all of the key Billing, IT/IS, Business and Operational Support, Customer Management and Revenue Assurance decision makers under one roof at one time!

Click here to register for the event! http://www.iir-billingsystems.com/pipelinereg

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