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Hammerhead Systems Announces Web Services Strategy and Advanced EMS Product Based on Service Oriented Architecture Pegador SOA™ Enables Service Providers to Offer 1000 Different Profiles per Port and Roll-out Services Up to 75% Faster at Half the Cost Mountain View , CA – September 7, 2005 – Hammerhead Systems, the leader in Layer 2.5 Aggregation Solutions today announced its Pegador SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), an evolutionary step in the modernization of network/service management software, enabling service providers to address the operational challenges in the deployment of higher value services and facilitate the development of web-based services and customer network management offerings. With Pegador SOA and the feature-rich service, quality and availability management capabilities of the HSX 6000, Hammerhead Systems is the first company to support up to a thousand different service profiles on a single port, including VoIP, IP Video, Internet, email and business services, while supporting up to a million flows per system. Each of these profiles can be “pre-engineered” onto the network, enabling virtually instant provisioning of new services using automated tools and minimal time of valuable operations personnel. Applications include integration of business systems to management systems for reliable billing, web applications for transaction processing as well as integration to supplier and partners for purchase order fulfillment and order tracking, and service revenue opportunities for the enterprise in verticals such as the financial, retail, manufacturing or transportation sectors. Pegador SOA is the first service provider operations solution to specifically support the emerging Service Oriented Architectures trend, by using SOA principles to integrate network, service, and customer management tools that support emerging SOA-based application services. These facilitate web services, bind IP networks with application networks, and provide an unmatched level of flexibility for service providers to develop incremental revenue streams and reduce time-to-market. The Pegador SOA EMS supports the TeleManagement Forum 854 XML/SOAP Interface, which is a loosely coupled Internet-based framework mandated by large service providers and enabling them to roll-out and bill for new services up to three times faster. “Pegador SOA is key to service providers as the OSS infrastructure is the most costly piece of a network and a critical financial barrier to introducing new offerings due to the time and expense of integrating services into the back office infrastructure,” said Pete Savage, CEO of Hammerhead Systems. “Service providers can now reap the benefits of an SOA-based EMS and advanced quality, service, availability and management to integrate and offer new services, and we are pleased to be leading the way in offering the industry’s most advanced EMS .” Pegador SOA Embodies a comprehensive EMS for full service offerings Provides a competitive differentiator for service generation and revenue Supports a standards-based approach to northbound integration using TMF 854 Enables service providers to extend high touch services to end-users Eliminates additional program development Leverages the advanced QoS features of the HSX 6000 that can be used for differentiated services Pegador SOA will be available in October 2005. XML/SOAP provides the critical link between service providers’ business and management systems to deliver web-based applications that leverage the advanced service, quality and management capabilities of network elements. Service providers have made a strategic commitment to the TMF 854 XML/SOAP interface, however traditional incumbent vendors - with their existing proprietary NMS systems - cannot provide the rapid migration required due to architectural limitations of their legacy systems, including disparate databases, multiple EMS ’s with proprietary implementations, and primitive systems that only support command line functionality. As a result, service providers are looking beyond their traditional incumbent suppliers to innovative companies that are delivering modern software infrastructures with XML/SOAP interfaces to quickly deploy new services. XML/SOAP brings simplicity, modular design and decentralization to the EMS development, and provides applications developers a platform to define elements as needed, reducing their dependency on proprietary data formats for their applications. A service provider can roll-out a web-based service such as flexible bandwidth provisioning to customers with development time reduced from 12 to 3 months. The HSX 6000 is the only purpose-built, single box solution available for dense Ethernet aggregation, Pseudowire termination, legacy Frame Relay and ATM support, and Service Interworking. It has the industry’s lowest TCO for edge aggregation, in part as a result of its unique architectural advantages that optimize its aggregation and grooming efficiency, such as Bandwidth Poolingand Service Agile Ports . This, combined with the HSX 6000’s best-in-class QoS architecture, enables unmatched levels of service segregation and SLA assurance, critical for robust aggregation of diverse data , video, and packet voice services feeding a common IP/MPLS core. About Hammerhead Systems *Note to editors: “Pegador” is a type of remora fish which lives in a symbiotic relationship with sharks. |
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