Combining Comverse's high-capacity
Short Message Service Center with its Real-Time Billing Solution enables operators to improve network efficiency and speed time-to-market of popular new SMS services, including flash services and SMS voting, the company claims.
Under the agreement, Nokia would supply its core and radio-access network infrastructure, a Nokia
Short Message Service Center, the Nokia NetAct network and service management system, and also implementation, radio network planning and optimisation and care services.
Centigram Communications Corporation, (NASDAQ: CGRM), a leading global provider of wireless and wireline messaging and communications solutions, has completed interoperability testing of its new Centigram
Short Message Service Center in the Lucent Technologies' Wireless Innovation Lab (NYSE: LU).
According to TCS it has deployed its
Short Message Service Center (SMSC) application to a GSM operator network in Belize and to a CDMA operator network in Pakistan.
Nokia said that it had supplied the company with GSM systems and solutions that included Nokia Base Station Subsystems, Nokia Operations Support System, Nokia Switching Subsystem and GPRS Core Network, Nokia
Short Message Service Center (SMSC) and Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC).
Verizon is also expected to be the first nationwide US wireless carrier to offer Lucent's two-way
Short Message Service Center service, jointly developed by Lucent and TeleCommunication Systems.
Under the contract, valued at more than EUR60m, Nokia is to supply Maroc Telecom with base stations, base station controllers, network management systems and the Nokia
Short Message Service Center. Nokia is also to provide an extensive range of customer services covering part of site acquisition, civil works, installation and commissioning of all network elements.
Over the past decade, many of the world's largest telecommunication service providers have purchased Stratus servers for intelligent network and network management applications, including 1-800 call management, mobile number portability and
short message service centers. Many of these systems, which are still in production today, are Stratus Continuum servers with the HP-UX operating system.