Sigma Systems And Xener Systems Team To Accelerate Voip Deployments In Apac
~ Both companies to cooperate in joint marketing and sales strategy ~
TORONTO, ON/SEOUL, KOREA – October 19, 2007 – Sigma Systems (
www.sigma-systems.com), a premier provider and leader in the design, development and deployment of OSS service management solutions and Xener Systems, Inc., (
www.xener.com), a key provider of Next Generation Networks, of Seoul, Korea, have signed a strategic alliance to accelerate and collaborate on voice over IP (VoIP) solutions in Korea and Asia Pacific.
“Softswitch vendors now recognise the value of an integrated service management platform to enable operators to deliver an end-to-end solution as an integral part of a complete service delivery model,” said Sigma Systems president and COO Tim Spencer. “As such, we have forged a strategic alliance to embark on a joint marketing and sales strategy that will provide a holistic solution for Xener’s current and prospective customers in Korea and APAC.”
Xener Systems CEO Yong-Gu Kang said, “With this agreement, we gain momentum to expand into new markets by taking Sigma Systems’ residential and commercial VoIP expertise and offering a value-added solution that addresses the voice needs of cable and telecommunications companies. Through our mutually beneficial business collaboration, we will leverage our own next generation network capabilities and add Sigma’s service management solutions to expand our voice services business. We will position Sigma as a valued partner as operators expand or transition services for competitive or operations scalability opportunities.”
The Sigma VoIP Service Packages provide a robust OSS service management solution that is pre-integrated to define, provision and maintain residential VoIP and hosted commercial VoIP services on IP networks. The service package encapsulates the voice services domain expertise and best practices that Sigma has gained from working closely with some of the world’s largest communication service providers since 1996. The solution is applicable to any cable, telco or broadband IP service provider looking to offer residential and/or business voice services.
“Our solution will allow quick optimisation and automation of operational processes for voice services for many of Xener’s customers,” said Tim Spencer. “It can rapidly create new bundles of residential and commercial services, including hosted voice service for small to medium businesses (SMBs), voice mail, unified messaging, SIP residential telephony features and Centrex and IP-Centrex call features for SMBs.”
Yuong-Gu Kang said, “As the VoIP service market is quicklygrowing in Korea and Asia Pacific, Xener has focused its efforts in enhancing responsiveness to the customers’ needs on the diverse and differentiated subscriber services by expanding its partnerships with the industry’s best-of-breed solution providers like Sigma Systems.”
Xener has maintained its leading position in NGN and the VoIP solution market, deploying the core networks for most VoIP service providers in the Korean VoIP market such as KT, Hanaro Telecom and Korea Cable Telecom (KCT). Xener also recently extended its coverage into the enterprise IP telephony solution market with its own IP PBX and IP-Centrex solution.
