e.Biscom's FastWeb selects Hughes Software Systems as a Future-Proof Infrastructure Solution
HSS offers FastWeb a Scalable Voice Network solution
New Delhi, June, 2004
e.Biscom's FastWeb ( www.ebiscom.it ), the leading alternative broadband telecommunications company in Italy, which has been the pioneering provider of VoIP to business and residential customers since 2000, has selected Hughes Software Systems (HSS), an end-to-end communications solutions provider, to increase the VoIP capability of its triple-play integrated network. In partnership with Italtel, a leading systems integrator in Italy, HSS has offered FastWeb scalability and manageability for its fast growing subscriber base using its VoIP Gatekeeper solution.
e.Biscom was the first company worldwide to implement and demonstrate the industrial feasibility of such radical innovations in the telecommunications field as the creation of a fully IP-based architecture, direct fibre connections to both business and residential customers, and high quality broadcast television and video services over DSL. The FastWeb network, built on a FTTH (fiber to the home) and ADSL approach, is a fully-independent alternative to the incumbent's infrastructure, and is therefore the first facility to extend second-generation Internet access to residential users at significantly faster speeds than other carriers. The network covers the main Italian cities: Milan, Rome, Genoa, Turin, Naples, Bologna, Venice, Padua, Biella, Reggio Emilia, Modena and Bari.
The highly scalable HSS solution has helped FastWeb to reap the benefit of scale in its expansion plans and accrue significant cost savings. With carrier-grade availability, web-based management, CGI provisioning interface and enhanced CLI interface, FastWeb's network has acquired even greater reliability, manageability and cost- effectiveness.
About the HSS Gatekeeper
The HSS Gatekeeper is a Carrier-class feature rich solution, offering complete call-control and policy management functions for a VoIP network. The HSS Gatekeeper hosts value-added functions such as VoIP VPN CUGs (Centrex Services), Pre-paid calling card, Hunt-groups and H.450 Supplementary services. Replete with all the reliability and manageability aspects that are imperative for any carrier-class deployment, the HSS Gatekeeper offers extensive scalability with its capability to support up to 50,000 subscribers.
"Fast expansion, easy manageability, high reliability and significant savings in Capex and Opex; these are some of the benefits the FastWeb network is enjoying, thanks to the HSS Gatekeeper solution. The flexibility and quickness to respond to FastWeb's needs by HSS, galvanized our plans to meet future challenges." Guido Roda, Network Service Engineering Director, FastWeb
"The HSS Gatekeeper addresses the service provider's challenge of meeting growing customer numbers and needs", said Ajay Gupta, Assistant Vice President, Business Development, HSS. "FastWeb's extensive reach coupled with the triple play capability now available through the HSS Gatekeeper promises to change the dynamics of the Italian network scenario and offer more innovative services to the end-users."
About e.Biscom's FastWeb
e.Biscom's FastWeb is Italy's main alternative fixed broadband telecommunications operator. The company offers integrated broadband telecommunications services using an IP-based architecture over its own dense fibre optic network. FastWeb provides its innovative services to all market segments (large to small businesses, small offices and home offices, residential clients) in the main Italian cities. FastWeb provides voice, broadband Internet connectivity, data transmission and video services in all existing formats: broadcast (i.e. traditional free-to-air TV), multicast (i.e. pay TV and pay-per-view) and unicast (i.e. video-on-demand and full interactive TV). Access to the end-user is provided directly through fibre optics (with Fibre-to-the-Home/Fibre-to-the-Office solutions) or through xDSL technology over unbundled lines. The technological solution and the fibre optic infrastructure, which are completely alternative to the incumbent's network, support much faster access speeds than those currently available on the market: up to 10 Mbit/s upstream and downstream for residential customers and virtually unlimited speeds for business subscribers. Moreover, the use of the IP protocol has allowed the development of a very fast DSL service, thus enabling advanced telecommunication services, at reception speeds of up to 6 Mbit/s and transmission speeds of up to 0.512 Mbit/s, much faster than those delivered by other DSL operators in Italy. e.Biscom S.p.A. has been listed on Milan's Nuovo Mercato since March 30 th 2000.
About Hughes Software Systems (HSS)
Hughes Software Systems (HSS), is an end-to-end communication solutions provider for more than 250 customers worldwide, in the Telecom Infrastructure, Communication Service Provider, and Business Process Outsourcing sectors. A specialist in convergent network solutions for Fixed, Mobile and IP, HSS offers Products (Licensable Technologies) and Strategic Outsourcing Services to its customers.. A global leader in protocol signaling solutions, HSS products and services help build comprehensive solutions for Voice over Packet , SS7 and Broadband Wireless data . Its outsourcing services span the entire software lifecycle, from maintaining and enhancing legacy systems to product design, development, and testing services. HSS provides Business and Operational Support Systems (BSS and OSS) in integration and legacy application maintenance services to telecom service providers. In the communication applications space, HSS provides the full spectrum of services to Independent Software Vendors (ISV), OEMs, and Telecom companies. HSS addresses the BPO space through its dedicated division, Hughes BPO Services (HughesBPO), which provides 24 X 7 X 365 Contact Center and, transaction and back-office processing services. HughesBPO contact centers provide online customer care services using voice, chat, and e-mail across multiple industry segments such as IT and Networking, Telecom. Assessed at SEI-CMMI Level 5, HSS has been an ISO 9001 company since 1996. One of the Best Employers in India, (BT- Hewitt study), HSS has development centers at New Delhi, and Bangalore, in India, and at Nuremberg in Germany. HSS has sales and support operations in 10 international locations and has more than 2500 employees worldwide.
For more information, please contact:
Ajay Gupta
Hughes Software Systems
Phone: +91-124-234 6666 Extn. 2250
Fax: + 91-124- 2348931
Email: ajaygupta@hssworld.com
Web: http://www.hssworld.com
Marina Gillespie
International Media Relations Manager,
e.Biscom S.p.A.
Phone: +39 02 45454365
Email: marina.gillespie@ebiscom.it
Web: www.ebiscom.it
Last updated :
October 7, 2004
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