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About Telcordia Technologies
For more than two decades, Telcordia has supported leading communications
companies around the globe with a robust, end-to-end portfolio of software,
services, and research that spans key functions, including:
Planning & Engineering: GIS-based systems for planning, designing,
engineering, and documenting complex communications networks
Fulfillment: a flexible, proven approach for managing inventory, provisioning
automation, fallout resolution, and number management
Service Delivery: a set of service creation and control enablers for creating
and deploying advanced services for fixed, mobile and converged operators
Service Management: multi-layer, configurable service quality solutions that
enhance customer experience
Telcordia is one of the world’s foremost providers of software and services for IP,
wireline, wireless, and cable networks. It offers communications companies the
elements they require to manage and grow their networks in an era of
unprecedented global opportunity. The efforts of Telcordia on behalf of its
customers have resulted in many awards and industry recognition.
Telcordia puts its Elements of Success — innovation, experience, technical and
industry reach — into Action on every solution deployment or consulting
engagement. This focus on success represents the evolution of its operating
philosophy of openness and flexibility known as the Telcordia® Elementive
approach.
The Telcordia depth and breadth of experience is evident in its ability to solve
complex network and operations challenges and deliver solutions that touch
nearly every corner of telecommunications, from the infrastructure upon which
one of the world's largest telephone networks is built, to the rapidly expanding IP
and mobile markets. Today, Telcordia software handles 80% of the fixed access
lines, 100% of the toll-free traffic, and 90% of the wireless number portability
market in the USA. Telcordia consulting and transaction Services provide
forward-thinking operators with the tools and expert advice they seek to optimize
processes, integration, interconnection, routing and numbering.
Behind the scenes, Telcordia can draw upon the packaged intelligence found in
more than 800 patents, developed to encourage progress in the
telecommunications industry. Telcordia Research has led to ADSL, ATM, Frame
Relay, SONET, AIN, ISDN, and many other industry breakthroughs. The Telcordia
Software Systems organization has been certified to the ISO 9001 standard and
registered to the TL 9000 quality standard for the telecommunications industry,
and Telcordia people sit on some of the industry’s most influential standards
bodies and forums.