Source: www.voip-news.com

Vertica Systems and Sigma Systems are holding a webinar about new internet protocol detail record mediation and data warehousing solutions for cable and telecom service providers. The solution being discussed allows providers to analyze terabytes of usage and subscriber data at any level of detail and in real time.

Here’s the detes:

DETAILS:
Attendees will learn how to:
– Do fast, ad-hoc reporting on real-time IPDR and other telecom data
with minimal impact on equipment and systems performance.
– Gain better insight into service fulfillment, rating, charging,
billing and profitability that result in competitive advantage, tight
regulatory compliance and a better customer experience.
– Examine network and call data in real time to improve quality of
service.
– Query years of data at any detail level.
– Eliminate revenue leakage and reduce customer churn.

– Identify fraud.

WHEN:
Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 10:00 AM Eastern time

To register: http://www.vertica.com/.

Source: www.voip-news.com

The latest report from Light Reading’s VoIP Services Insider indicates that VoIP service providers aren’t taking the steps needed to prepare from impending security threats.

According to Light Reading:

VoIP Security: Vendors Prepare for the Inevitable examines applications in the VoIP security market, including security trends and the evolution of products, as well as target markets for VoIP security and the managed services strategies of various vendors. It also examines the outlook for the next 12 to 18 months for VoIP security, including threats the market faces, the impact of economic troubles, the buildout plans of various vendors, and the partnerships, investments, and acquisitions vendors have made. Finally, the report provides a comparative analysis of 12 of the top vendors in the VoIP security industry.

“Despite the hard lessons learned through security breaches in the earlier days of email and Internet, most VoIP users are not securing their networks adequately,” says Denise Culver, research analyst with Light Reading’s VOIP Services Insider and author of the report. “Some vendors believe this is a matter of VoIP users simply not understanding how to adequately secure their networks, while others believe it is necessary to better educate the VoIP marketplace about security issues, as well as create better tools to combat threats themselves.”

Always plan for the worst … seriously. To ignore that security threats will happen is like leaving your wallet on a subway.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Cisco Service Provider Blog, SP360 suggests that Service Providers adopt "Software As A Service" (SAAS). I for sure think it is a viable solution in the world of VoIP IP Telephony, or most industries that I am involved in for that matter, you are invited to read this post "Software-as-a-Service offers Upside to SPs" and express your opinion.