PRESS RELEASE
November 20, 2002
INS Selects Tekno Telecom's SS7 Network Moniting System
Naperville, IL - November 20, 2002 - Tekno Telecom, L.L.C. today announced that Iowa Network Services (INS), a leading provider of interstate and intrastate long distance telephone services, equal access switching and high capacity networking, selected Tekno Telecom’s LinkQuestäSS7 Network Monitoring Solution for use in its switching network.
INS will use Tekno Telecom’s system to provide network monitoring of its Signal Transfer Point’s (STP) SS7 links and utilize Tekno Telecom’s applications for Inter-Carrier Billing and Validation, Quality of Service, Network Troubleshooting, Surveillance, Traffic Engineering, Marketing Studies, and Revenue Assurance.
"Obtaining accurate information directly from our SS7 network will allow us to positively impact our bottom line and our engineering and operations people are looking forward to using the Surveillance and Troubleshooting capabilities of the LinkQuest System," said Bob Sherlock, Vice President – Engineering at INS.
"We are pleased to provide these advanced solutions to INS. They now have patented technology to be proactive in network monitoring which will provide a rapid return on investment. Numerous groups within INS and their member owners will gain beneficial knowledge on inter-carrier and interconnect usage, protocol analysis, network alarming and CDR analysis," said Sam Galler, Vice President Sales – Tekno Telecom. "In today’s turbulent times for the telecom industry, carriers have to realize that tremendous beneficial knowledge can be gained from the call detail records that are generated from within the SS7 network. These records are used for a variety of revenue generating and revenue assurance applications such as fraud management, interconnection billing verification and network usage. INS needed to develop an innovative, yet cost-effective solution, and the LinkQuest system helped them reach that goal."
About INS
INS is organized and owned by 127 Rural Iowa Independent Telephone Companies. INS currently provides centralized equal access to 147 Rural Iowa Independent Telephone Companies, which serve about 330 communities and 280,000 end users.
About Tekno Telecom, LLC
Tekno started in 1968 in the telecom sector and has installed over 10,000 systems worldwide. Migrating from call accounting systems to traffic management solutions (which front-ended switches) to call completion systems, Tekno has been a pillar of telecom network management, maintenance, and revenue assurance solutions, focusing on high return on investment systems for wireline, wireless and next-generation carriers. Tekno has consistently brought to market products that were more advanced and accurate than its larger competitors. The engineering team has generated numerous patents, which today allows us to offer supremely efficient and accurate systems necessary for today’s carriers to confidently know what is occurring in their networks in order to solve problems and collect the revenues due to them. Tekno’s focus has consistently relied on data/information collected, not from the switch, but directly from the network (MF, SS7, ATM, and IP, etc.). Network data is rich in information and Tekno’s products use advanced techniques to extract and correlate this tremendous amount of data into useful information for the carriers. Most importantly, Tekno is on the cutting edge of technology and is ready for today’s newest networks while still supporting legacy telecom networks. For more information about Tekno Telecom visit www.teknotelecom.com or call (630) 579-9800.
