Vivo Relies on Intec for Operational Excellence
October 27 2010 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
Intec, one of the world’s leading providers of Business Support
System (BSS) solutions, announced the completion of the mediation
upgrade project for Brazil’s largest mobile operator, Vivo. The
upgrade to Intec’s award-winning Inter-mediatE v6 and
standardization on commodity hardware running Linux has generated a
90% savings in hardware upgrade expenses as well as future annual
utility savings, while providing the processing headroom to support
Vivo’s incredible growth.
Vivo, the former the joint venture of Portugal Telecom and
Telefónica Móviles and now owned wholly by Spain’s Telefónica, has
used Intec’s mediation technology since its inception in 2003. Vivo
turned to Intec to address its processing capacity crisis, which
was driven by its nearly 10-fold processing growth since the
company’s 2003 launch. By upgrading to the latest version of
Intec’s mediation technology, Vivo was able to leverage the latest
low-cost hardware technology without compromising its processing
performance. High-density blade hardware requires less cost to
replace, less space, and less power to operate. Additionally, by
standardizing all of its regions and operations on Inter-mediatE
v6, Vivo was able to reduce the overall application instances
requiring maintenance and better utilize its skilled resources.
“Implementing blade technology reduced our anticipated costs of
upgrading hardware by more than 65%, which was a huge savings,”
noted Agenor Leão, Director of Business Relations and Solutions for
Vivo. “Our data throughput exceeds our minimum requirements by 20%
or more, with no concerns about being able to accommodate future
volumes.”
This generous processing headroom is critical in today’s modern
mobile service environment, and especially in Latin America, which
is touted as the world’s fastest growing region in terms of mobile
data traffic. As demand grows for smart handsets and the
applications they enable, mobile content services are quickly
becoming an integral part of every mobile operator’s offerings.
“The significant cost savings and performance increases Vivo
will achieve with this latest upgrade further strengthens our
long-term relationship with Vivo. By upgrading to Inter-mediate v6,
which is the latest mediation technology available in the market,
Vivo is well-positioned for unprecedented subscriber and service
growth at minimal hardware cost, as well as to maintain its
market-leading position,” said Ian Watterson, Vice President
Americas, Intec.
About Intec
Intec supplies solutions to over 60 of the world’s top 100
telecoms operators, with a vision to become the world’s most
trusted supplier of BSS (Business Support Systems) solutions.
Intec’s many customers include: AT&T, Aircel, Asia Pacific
Telecommunications, Best Buy, Bharti, Cable & Wireless, Celcom
Axiata, China Mobile, China Unicom, Claro, Cox Communications,
Deutsche Telekom, Digicel, Eircom, Exatel, France Telecom,
Grameenphone, Hutchison 3G, Nextel, O2, Orange, Qualcomm, Reliance,
SingTel Optus, T-Mobile, Talk Talk, TerreStar, Telefonica, Telekom
Malaysia, Telecom New Zealand, US Cellular, Verizon, VimpelCom,
Virgin Mobile, Vivo and Vodafone.
Intec works closely with its customers, many of whom have been
with Intec since its inception, to provide the highest standards of
performance, flexibility and robustness to help operators service
their customers effectively and profitably.
Founded in 1997, Intec is listed on the London Stock Exchange
(ITL.L) and has around 1,600 staff and a presence in 24 countries.
For more information, visit the Intec website at
www.intecbilling.com
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