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Azure and Narus team up to bring IP-Monitoring capability to revenue assurance
Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, has announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Narus, a provider of unified IP Management and Security. The agreement brings together both companies’ combined IP and revenue-assurance expertise to enable them to provide operators worldwide with the capability to bill for usage and identify fraud effectively on their next-generation telecom networks.
With the increasing complexity of value chains and partnerships in next-generation IP networks, a key requirement for operators is to ensure all relevant data is secured by monitoring traffic. The Narus IP Platform captures and analyses IP traffic in real time across an entire IP network.
Combining this with Azure’s interconnect, data-integrity (Certo) and fraud-detection capability, operators can now extract information from IP networks to validate billing records and identify fraud on voice and data services.
Through this partnership operators will be able to maximise revenues through the introduction of differential billing for next-generation products and services, as well as the detection of revenue leakage due to fraud and third-party services on their networks. The partnership also complements Azure’s next-generation revenue-assurance product portfolio, following the recent launches of Azure Inter-Party Management and the next-generation Azure Fraud Control System.
John Cronin, president and CEO of Azure Solutions, said: “Being able to understand activity on their networks is the first stage for carriers wanting to implement revenue assurance for next-generation networks. This partnership with Narus will enable us to combine our sales and R&D development to deliver even more effective next-generation revenue assurance.”
Jay Thomas, vice president of product marketing at Narus, said: “Customers are looking for more information about their networks and traffic. Combining Azure’s capabilities with Narus unified IP Management and Security brings a new understanding of traffic, capabilities, and revenue to carriers’ businesses.”
Both Azure and Narus were judged top start-ups in the revenue assurance and mediation categories respectively, in the recent Heavy Reading 2005 OSS Market Perception Study.
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