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Nakina Systems provides one platform to discover, secure and manage multi-vendor networks. Using Nakina's software, service providers expedite the rollout of next-generation services, improve and automate routine management tasks and reduce the 'OSS Integration Tax' by rationalizing the number of management systems required.

As a single point of integration between any vendors' networking products and higher-level management applications, the Nakina Network OS™ reduces operating expenses, bolsters identity management security, and improves workflow productivity by automating operations like software upgrades, backup and restore, discovery, fault, performance and configuration management. And it's all with one system. Only from Nakina.

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Verizon Business Case Study
Nakina Systems Product Brochure
Nakina Systems Security Brochure
FAQ - Maximizing ROI from Your EMS for Service Provider Executives
FAQ - Maximizing ROI from Your EMS for Network Equipment Vendor Execs

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Progress Software provides a portfolio of best-in-class service infrastructure products to build, deploy and manage service-oriented architectures. The Progress SOA Suite delivers robust, agile SOA infrastructure for the real world of business-critical processes that span many platforms and many locations.

Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator addresses the challenge of data interoperability for service-oriented architectures, bringing the same agility to data that SOA does to processes. DataXtend Semantic Integrator uses a common model to mediate the differences between the data models of applications and services, enabling enterprises to reduce the complexity and cost of their SOA implementations while improving agility.

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Progress DataXtend SID Model Browser
Forrester white paper: Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA
Using the SID in OSS/BSS Integration white paper

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Progress DataXtend SI datasheet
eBook by Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Progress Software -
     SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture. Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges.
IBM Redbook Executive Brief: Implementing Technology to Support SOA Governance
     and Management

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Sigma Systems is the global leader in delivering subscriber-centric, service fulfillment solutions. The company’s powerful OSS software solutions enable the world’s leading Communications Service Providers to deliver any service, over any access technology, to any device. Sigma’s best-in-class Service Management Portfolio is a carrier-grade platform that enables rapid service creation and availability, advanced order management, and automated provisioning and activation. The company’s award winning software includes specific solutions for the end-to-end fulfillment of individual, bundled and converged services.

Sigma’s 12-year heritage of solution delivery experience in complex operating environments encompasses nearly 50 deployments with a combined total of 30 million subscribers worldwide.

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Industry Solutions

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Company Overview
Product Portfolio
Commercial Voice Solution
Wireless Service Management
Beyond Residential Triple Play

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LTC International provides leading companies in the telecommunications and IT sectors with a unique level of service based on true subject matter expertise. Our Business Operations Architects® each have at least ten years of hands-on experience in service provider and IT intensive companies. Our consulting team has experience in all areas of business profit optimization, wireless and wireline communications, Internet services, as well as software and hardware planning, implementation and operations.

LTC has incorporated more than 1,000 years of first hand operating company and software application experience into our Business Management Toolkit. This comprehensive set of tools, guidelines, checklists, templates and training programs is designed to remove uncertainty and accelerate success for our clients.

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With over 3000 attendees from service providers and their suppliers coming from over 70 countries Management World is the global event for Information, Communications and Entertainment services delivery in an on-line world. The event covers service delivery, from the business drivers to the technology and systems that design, deliver, monitor and bill for them in:

• Over 120 hours of conferences
• 120 hours of training courses
• Over 120 exhibitors and unique live Catalyst demonstrations

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The IPTV World Forum 2008
12th-14th March 2008
Olympia, London, UK

With over 400 speakers from telecoms, cable, satellite and mobile operators and leading content owners, the conference will feature over 30 telcos and ISPs discussing IPTV service deployment issues. The IPTV showcase area in the exhibition will feature service demonstrations from leading worldwide IPTV service deployments, with over 200 exhibitors and 7000 visitors.

For FREE exhibition passes, and further information please visit www.iptv-forum.com or email katherinec@junction-group.com or call +44 (0)1173 116 222

Management World Middle East 2008, taking place from March 3-5, 2008 at the Le Meridien Dubai, is dedicated to issues surrounding the management of information, communications and entertainment services. The event is aimed at service providers, vendors, systems integrators and industry experts who focus on rolling out and managing new and complex communications services over next generation networks. This event brings together industry professionals, and hosts world renowned industry experts as speakers.

For more information, visit www.tmforum.org/middleeast.

NEW PARADIGM RESOURCES GROUP, Inc. (NPRG) is the nation’s leading strategic consulting and research firm for innovators within the communications industry.  NPRG provides business strategy and technology advice to our clients.  To accomplish this,we identify, analyze and forecast emerging technologies and trends, support mission critical decision-making processes for service providers, technology developers and financial institutions, and deliver proven business strategies, product plans and market forecasts, enabling clients to succeed within evolving market conditions.

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Spring VON.X 2008, March 17 - 20, will focus on the cutting edge applications and technologies that are driving the market in next generation VoIP, wireless, video and data services. Spring VON.X will address the most critical Internet  Communications issues, and provide attendees with superior conference content, unmatched networking opportunities and the information they need  to monetize the applications made possible by Internet Communications technologies, including; VoIP, FMC,  3GPP, WiFi, WIMAX, IPTV, IMS, SIP, and more. Use priority code Pipeline2 for FREE Expo Pass or conference discounts.

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Now in its 15th year, BIMS is firmly established as the essential meeting place for the EMEA Telecoms Billing and IT Community and as a vital resource for information gathering and sharing within a likeminded group of industry specialists and decision makers. The broader themes of the conference will incorporate approaches on strategic and technical planning for Billing, IT / IS, Business and Operational Support, Customer, Partner and Process Management and Revenue Assurance.

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Billing and Information Management Systems 2008

SOFNET 08
28 April - 1 May 2008
London, England

SOFNET 08 is the premier conference and exhibition that will provide participants with a framework to examine the impact of software as it becomes the driving element in next-generation carrier networks—an impact that will result in innovation—in network operations and management, in provisioning of unique software-based applications and services, in increasing speed to market of new services, and in enhancing the customer experience.

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SOFNET Prospectus

Management World India (March 31-April 3, 2008 at Le Meridien New Delhi) focuses on the challenges the Indian market faces as it matures and competition increases.  The event provides essential and unique insight into delivering innovation, managing growth and delivering profitability, as well as the latest information on high-technology developments. This event is the perfect platform to bring together industry professionals and hosts world-renowned experts as speakers.

For more information visit http://www.tmforum.org/india.

Communications is your business. NXTcomm08 is your show.
June 16-19, 2008. Don’t miss the one event delivering the entire ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data. From VoIP and IPTV to WiMAX and wireless, the key players that drive communications and the technology and services making history converge here.

More than 200,000 net square feet of exhibit space

• More than 20,000 attendees from 100+ countries
• More than 500 exhibitors from around the world
• More than 475 members of the press and analyst communities
• More than 100 keynote addresses, sessions and conferences

Register for free at NXTcommShow.com by using the pass code: PLP8

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