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28.04.07Macedonia welcomes PROTEI
In March 2007, PROTEI added Macedonia to its map of worldwide installations with the launch of a Voice Services platform in Skopje for local mobile operator COSMOFON, a subsidiary of the Greek telecoms holding OTE Group.
The COSMOFON network was launched in July 2003 and provides its services all over Macedonia. Today, it is the fastest growing network in the country. The company’s philosophy of continual development and expansion of market presence demands the constant introduction of new services and modernization of existing services.
In October 2006, COSMOFON put out a tender for a new voice services platform. With its broad potential for creating voice services, flexible configuration and effective remote monitoring, the PROTEI Voice Services platform fitted the bill perfectly.
Another deciding factor in the decision was PROTEI’s flexibility and readiness to adapt the platform to the exact requirements of the operator and to develop new, unique services exclusively for COSMOFON.
The platform is currently providing services such as multi-level IVR voice menu for providing information and for ordering services, Logic Line for creating virtual call centers, outgoing call generation, collect call, televoting and many more unique voice services.
Even during deployment and testing, it became clear that the new services would be popular across Macedonia. Local television jumped at the call center service for use with reality shows - the major attraction being its ability to provide flexible schemes for processing calls coming in to the studio, allowing callers not only to have their say ‘on air’, but also to leave recorded messages in the system for later airing.
The project required close cooperation between PROTEI and COSMOFON, and both companies look forward to developing their partnership in the future. Success in the COSMOFON tender is yet another confident step into the European market and a clear demonstration of the technical excellence of PROTEI systems.
02.03.07PROTEI Roaming Gateway meets GSMA Open Connectivity Requirements
n-Tel Communications, an Associate member of GSM Association, has completed testing of a new hub-based roaming solution complying with principles of Open Connectivity. The testing based on the platform developed by PROTEI (Protei Roaming Gateway) has shown that the solution meets all requirements to Roaming Hub solutions declared by GSM Association.
The successful tests will allow the operators of all sizes to extend their roaming services, and mobile users will also benefit from multi-media services when roaming.
Roaming Hub on the base of PROTEI Roaming Gateway was developed in direct response to a specific need among the operators who face complexity and expense in establishing and maintaining roaming agreements. The single contact point of the hub will enable operators to maintain the multilateral and shared roaming agreements streamlining the procedure.
PROTEI Roaming Gateway is universal platform targeted to several categories of potential customers:
- Mobile Operators can optimize their cooperation on the level of alliances using Steering of Roaming concept according to IR-73 document
- Roaming providers can efficiently deploy wide range of signaling traffic processing services using this platform. Successful trial of PROTEI Roaming Gateway as Roaming Hub will significantly enhance the benefits of the roaming services deployment on the base of this platform for this category of customers.
- Challenges faced by MVNOs and small operators can also be efficiently resolved (roaming geography expansion when working via roaming brokers).
Roaming Gateway solves the following tasks:
- Network selection management for inbound and outbound roamers according to IR-73 concept
- Flexible SS7 (MAP, SCCP, MTP) parameter modification
- Global Title Translation functionality
- Ensures correct interoperation with roaming partners networks in case of compatibility problems with MAP, CAP or ISUP
- Collecting wide range of statistical information related to processed roaming traffic
PROTEI is one of Russia´s leading providers of IT solutions to the international telecommunications industry. More than 20 mobile and fixed-line operators in 10 countries use PROTEI equipment to serve over 23 million subscribers worldwide. PROTEI product line for mobile operators includes messaging solutions, IN&VAS platforms, roaming solutions, Customer care products, solutions for NGN and IMS.
26.12.06Happy New Year!
We would like to wish all our clients and partners a great Christmas and the very best for 2007, and we look forward to another year of exciting projects and successful cooperation.
2006 has been an excellent year for us all, with many ambitious projects and installations and a lot of new developments.
We hope that 2007 will follow the same trend and bring our clients and partners success and great achievements in business.
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With best wishes, the PROTEI team.
15.12.06ARCTEL launches PROTEI platform
The first stage of ARCTEL's project to create the most advanced communications network in Russia was completed in December 2006 with the installation of the PROTEI Intelligent Services platform. Specialists from both companies worked together to develop and deploy the ambitious project.
ARCTEL is one of the leading telecommunications providers on the Moscow City and Moscow Region market, and is successfully expanding into other regions of the Russian Federation. To ensure successful development and to provide a wider range of services across the country, ARCTEL management decided to install a new service platform that would provide clients with access to a whole array of services from any city via a single calling card.
The best solution was tendered by Petersburg developer PROTEI. The tendered system's distributed architecture, roaming support for calling cards, wide range of intelligent (including some non-standard) services plus the solid reputation of PROTEI itself as a reliable and forward-looking partner made it a clear -cut choice.
A key feature of PROTEI's solution is its distributed architecture, with a central node in Moscow and regional stations throughout all the major cities of the country. In the long-term, using such a structure will enable ARCTEL to provide a very wide range of intelligent services across the whole of the Federation. The first stage of the project involved deploying the PROTEI platform in Moscow simultaneously with equipment in Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Samara, Ekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg.
The list of services available to ARCTEL clients now includes service calling cards, Logic Line services (VPN, PRM, FRH), voice mail, automated information services, balance information, prepay cards and call center services. In addition, PROTEI engineers created an array of unique services specially for ARCTEL. Such a wide service offering will enable ARCTEL to reinforce its position on the communications market and lay down a formidable base for future expansion.
Carrying out such a large-scale project has further added to PROTEI engineers' experience in creating intelligent network projects. A similar project was successfully launched by PROTEI in August 2004 - a distributed intelligent platform for Kyrgyztelecom.
Both PROTEI and ARCTEL were thoroughly satisfied with the results of their joint efforts and plan to continue their cooperation in the coming year with a project to cover the remaining regions of Russia with an intelligent network.
PROTEI solutions are in hot demand among both mobile and fixed-line operators as versatile, reliable and highly profitable systems. Since the first deployment in 1999, more than 30 operators in Russia, the CIS and abroad have chosen the PROTEI Intelligent platform as a base to provide their services.
30.11.2006New PROTEI installations for TT Mobile
Leading Tadjikistan GSM operator TT Mobile, a daughter company of MegaFon, has launched two new solutions from PROTEI: CAMEL Gateway and Missed Call Notification (MCN).
PROTEI CAMEL Gateway is the key element in a convergent billing platform installed in the TT Mobile network by PROTEI and partner company Peter Service.
With the introduction of convergent billing, TT Mobile has entered a new era of network services. All calls and SMS can now be billed in real time. In future, the boundary between prepaid and postpaid subscribers can be wholly removed and the range of services billed under the CAMEL Gateway system can be expanded.
The CAMEL Gateway system can be used for billing GPRS sessions and other data transfer services. It can also operate as a fully functional SCP: a platform for providing various additional services such as Virtual Number and Virtual Private Network.
PROTEI CAMEL Gateway is a field-proven solution notable for its outstanding reliability, highly flexible configuration and broad functionality. PROTEI CAMEL Gateway is already used by many operators in convergent billing platforms in Russia and abroad. In MegaFon's Moscow and Central networks alone, it serves over 5.5 million subscribers.
Horizontal scaling ensures reliability and allows the system to be easily expanded to match the growth of TT Mobile's network.
Missed Call Notification is already used in all MegaFon networks, and has come to be something of a trademark for the company. The system informs subscribers of missed calls - a service which has proven extremely popular.
MegaFon Tadjikistan is upholding the company tradition, which not only provides a useful service for subscribers but also makes good business sense: more than 10% of subscribers return missed calls on receipt of MCN notification, increasing the number of outgoing calls from the network.
TT Mobile (trading as MLT) is one of Tadjikistan's foremost market players in terms of network coverage and the range of services offered. Many of the services are provided using PROTEI equipment. The new CAMEL Gateway and Who Called systems complement a range of existing PROTEI installations, including SMS Center, Call Center, Voice Mail and several others.
18.10.06New ISO certification for PROTEI
PROTEI has received new quality and ecological management certification to standards GOST R ISO 9001-2001 and ISO 14001:2004 respectively. The certification process was carried out by InfoCert on the basis of voluntary integrated management certification.
Certificates ROSS RU.FK07.K00003 and ROSS RU.FK07.K00004 are effective from October 18 2006, covering the areas of design, development, production, repair and service of telecommunications and measuring equipment.
Our new international certification will come as no surprise to our clients, who have long known the irreproachable quality of PROTEI products and management systems.
09.10.06PROTEI Supplies Novosibirsk Emergency Services Call Center
NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia - PROTEI has installed a system for the 112 emergency services. Three years ago PROTEI Call Center was installed in Novosibirsk for the police emergency services, '02'. Now it has been upgraded to cover the entire emergency network - police, ambulance, fire and gas services.
The new system has a unique functionality for Russia: the emergency call center operator can see detailed information about the location of the caller and the immediate surroundings. The system upgrade was carried out as a team effort between Megafon Novosibirsk (mobile operator), PROTEI (LBSE system and Call Center provider), Novosibirsk Geodesic Academy (GIS developer) and Areopag-Center .
28.08.06PROTEI installation in Pakistan
PAKISTAN - Mobile operator DIALLOG has installed IVR, Voice Mail and PRBT systems developed by PROTEI. Flexible configuration, broad installation experience, an English-language online interface and the capacity for remote administration and maintenance were decisive factors in choosing PROTEI equipment.
The PRBT system was the first such installation for Petersburg-based PROTEI, and has proven the system's capabilities in a real network environment. Delivery and installation was carried out by PROTEI experts together with Estonian company Bamboo Group, which facilitated coordination and provided support throughout the process. All parties are satisfied with the results of the project and look forward to future cooperation.
03.07.2006New PROTEI signalling converter
PROTEI has completed development of a new signalling converter using the R2 protocol. The new device converts such protocols as R2->PRI, R2->SS7, R2->R1.5 and R2->SIP.
11.04.06PROTEI Receives Russian MoD recommendation
PROTEI switching equipment has been added to the Russian MoD list of equipment approved for use in military applications.
24.03.06PROTEI joins WiMax Forum
With five years of experience in radio systems development, PROTEI looks forward to demonstrating its wireless broadband access devices at the international level. Membership of the WiMax forum gives greater opportunity to display the conformity of PROTEI equipment to world standards.
Our full WiMax forum membership provides us with access to unabridged information about the WiMax systems market, to coordinate development with the demands of international standards amd to guarantee our customers full compatibility with devices from other vendors.
PROTEI continues to display its prowess as one of the leading telecommunications equipment suppliers, and customers can expect our wireless broadband equipment to be built to the same exacting standards as our other communications solutions.
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