Through these alliances, managed service providers and Internet service providers can couple Lucent’s Kenan IP Services Software with either the Inktomi Content Networking Platform or Network Appliance’s Center-to-Edge to apply innovative usage-based pricing and billing for differentiated premium content delivery services such as Web broadcast streaming, personalized Web content and video-on-demand.
Value-added services such as content delivery will play a significant role in service providers’ future revenue models as they transition from free or flat-rate Internet to premium Internet services, said Robert Kiburz, vice president and general manager of Lucent Technologies Billing and Customer Care business. Our relationships with Inktomi and Network Appliance will help our customers deliver, manage and successfully bill for content-driven IP services.
With content networking solutions from Inktomi and Network Appliance, service providers can intelligently distribute, deliver, manage, and personalize rich media content. The Kenan IP Services Software – which includes award-winning billing, mediation, web-based customer care and revenue assurance software – collects and manages this detailed content delivery usage information and provides flexible rating and billing capabilities using a variety of parameters such as traffic volumes, number of caches/hits and types of content.
We are very pleased to collaborate with Lucent Billing and Customer Care. Inktomi’s leading network infrastructure software has helped the world’s largest service providers scale their networks and provide the highest quality of service to their customers, said Kevin Brown, vice president of Channels and Business Development at Inktomi. Now, combined with the Kenan IP Services Software, Inktomi’s highly flexible Content Networking Platform provides a foundation upon which service providers can rapidly offer next-generation forms of online media and easily integrate revenue-generating services into their network infrastructure.
Network Appliance enables service providers to create advanced revenue-generating services through the efficient distribution and delivery of rich media content throughout their worldwide networks, said Chris Liotta, senior vice president and general manager, Content Delivery Business Unit, Network Appliance. By partnering with Lucent, we provide a powerful integrated solution for customers to collect, process and bill for services such as live broadcasts and video on demand.
The Kenan IP Services Software enables the delivery of today’s and next-generation IP services such as VoIP, IP VPN, live/on-demand streaming media, managed storage, web hosting, advanced applications, and broadband Internet access. The flexibility and scalability of the software supports multiple business models including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, wholesale or virtual resell models. To help capture revenue from these services, the software provides easy-to-use tools that enable service providers to accommodate increasing usage volume and the ever-evolving complexity of IP networks and rapidly deploy innovative and accurate pricing packages, promotions, and services to maximize profitability and return on infrastructure investment.
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