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AAPT Unifies Billing Across Entire Subscriber Base With Comverse, Heightening Speed, Accuracy and Savings for Multi-Play Operations
MarketWatch, Nov 15, 2011
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Nov 15, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Comverse CMVT - 1.18%, a global leader in BSS, mobile Internet and value - added services, announced today that Australian operator AAPT has replaced its legacy wholesale billing system with Comverse BSS, significantly lowering operating costs and opening a myriad of voice and data service possibilities for all of its user segments.
This replacement is the final stage of AAPT's successful billing operations consolidation to Comverse BSS. Earlier phases of the project delivered significant operational efficiencies, such as reduced bill and invoice processing times. The current migration of wholesale customers to the Comverse BSS platform should extend such efficiencies across the entire subscriber base.
Network Equipment Technologies Gains SIP Trunking Certification With AAPT
Marketwire, Oct 3, 2011
FREMONT, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 3, 2011) - Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. ("NET") (NASDAQ: NWK) announced today that its UX Series with Session Border Controller (SBC), a qualified gateway for Microsoft Lync Server 2010, is now certified to work with AAPT's SIP trunking service.
AAPT is 100% owned by Telecom New Zealand. The company's SIP voice service is a SIP trunking solution, allowing customers with an IP-enabled PBX or SIP gateway device to connect to AAPT via Ethernet and have their telephony traffic carried via IP utilizing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), providing a far more scaleable alternative to traditional ISDN.
AAPT joins Oracle to grab service market
The Australian, Aug 2, 2011
TELECOMMUNICATIONS provider AAPT has made a play for the burgeoning infrastructure-as-a-service market by teaming up with software giant Oracle to offer a new service based on the latter's Solaris operating system.
Dubbed Solaris-as-a-service, the product will be aimed at medium to large businesses, says AAPT chief David Yuile.
By using the cloud-based service, customers will not have to buy and maintain their own IT infrastructure, Mr Yuile said. AAPT was a long-time Oracle enterprise customer.
AAPT deploys IPscape cloud based call centre technology
IT Wire, Mar 16, 2011
AAPT has chosen IPscape's cloud based contact centre technology for both its wholesale and business customer contract centres.
Up to 225 agents accessing the IPscape contact centre technology in the cloud from various locations across Australia.
AAPT is billing it as the latest move towards cloud based provision of IT services to "deliver agility and business value": it follows AAPT's decision to migrate its email to Google's Gmail in late 2009. "IPscape is the second AAPT enterprise level service replacing on-premise systems with cloud technology," the company said.
AAPT COO David Yuile said: "The days of complex, expensive legacy IT systems are numbered. Innovative, secure cloud solutions from companies like Google and IPscape allow us to be more agile and responsive at lower cost."
AAPT to expand into infrastructure-as-a-service
IT News, Mar 15, 2011
Diversifies hosted business beyond Google's enterprise platform.
Business telco AAPT has revealed plans to launch storage and server infrastructure-as-a-service products.
The telco also planned to expand its range of software-as-a-service offerings beyond the Google Apps for Enterprise suite it had offered since December 2009.
Chief operations officer David Yuile told iTnews the telco planned a "higher-end" hosted storage service as well as what he called "Solaris-as-a-service"
Fashion group drops dial-up connections
IT News, Nov 10, 2010
Upgrades to AAPT IP VPN.
Retail giant Special Fashion Group has upgraded dial-up links to its 850 stores nationwide to ADSL.
AAPT to roll out virtual Windows 7 desktops
IT News, Oct 25, 2010
Weans staff off BlackBerry in favour of Android.
AAPT has revealed plans to migrate staff to a "deskless" IT environment, using virtualised desktop instances running on laptops and thin-client devices.
The business telco will roll out a virtual Windows 7 desktop environment next month that staff will be able to access either on laptops or on Samsung 'thin client' LCD devices located around the telco's offices.
AAPT to push ahead with fibre network upgrade
IT News, Aug 20, 2010
Telecom NZ has decided to push ahead with an upgrade of AAPT's national fibre network, to help the soon-to-be wholesale and business-only carrier compete in an NBN world.
Telecom chief Paul Reynolds told financial analysts today that "best capacity, lowest price deployment [was] absolutely vital" for its Australian business to enable it to "compete and work effectively in the NBN world that's emerging over the ditch."
"We've got one of the best fibre networks in Australia and so we're upgrading it," he said.
AAPT deploys Gmail for corporate email
IT News, Jul 13, 2010
Phase two of Google Apps migration.
AAPT has migrated its 1200 users from Outlook to Google's Gmail.
The telco's chief operations officer David Yuile (pictured) told iTnews the switch was completed yesterday following a two-month trial involving 250 users.
Tech execs brave the cold for charity
IT News, Jun 18, 2010
Senior technology executives joined 684 other CEO's and Government officials in a sleep out under the stars last night to raise money for homeless Australians.
The CEO Sleepout, run by the St Vincent De Paul Society since 2006, has raised some $2.6 million for the charity with a coordinated event in most Australian capital cities overnight.
Among the participants roughing it with a piece of cardboard for a bed and a cup of soup for dinner was AAPT chief executive Paul Broad
AAPT streamlines business product creation with ActiveVOS
IT Wire, Apr 16, 2010
AAPT has implemented Active Endpoints' ActiveVOS business process management (BPM) platform to streamline the creation and delivery of its range of carrier and business grade communications services.
These include point-to-point ethernet, layer 2 VPN, Internet access, IP virtual private networks and SIP trunking services. (..)
David Yuile, AAPT's COO told ExchangeDaily: "ActiveVOS is a very important because it allows us to deliver a high degree of automation." for our products which means quicker and more error-free delivery, and the complexity of these products needs to be obscured from the customer."
"We launched carrier services some time ago. We have recently launched Business E-Line [point to point ethernet] and E-Lan [point to multipoint ethernet] and we are about to launch carrier E-Line and E-Lan. We are already delivering these services as trials. We have an IP-VPN product we are launching as well."
AAPT teams with EdgeCast to offer content delivery network
IT Wire, Apr 15, 2010
AAPT and content delivery network operator, EdgeCast Networks, have formed a partnership under which AAPT will market EdgeCast's services in Australia and provide communications facilities to support the delivery of EdgeCast's services in Australia.
According to AAPT, the EdgeCast service eliminates the need for Australian content providers to invest in costly infrastructure and agreements with numerous global CDNs for overseas content distribution.
AAPT’s journey to going Google
Official Google Australia Blog, Nov 3, 2009
CONTENT TEASER: As a challenger telco in the competitive Australian market, AAPT has worked closely with Google in the past couple of years to get the most out of the technology opportunities available to us - using search in smarter ways, and using Google Maps and Google Earth when it has made sense as a way to better visualise and plan our operations and communications with customers.
AAPT network upgrade boosts mid-band Ethernet
IT News, Apr 22, 2009
AAPT has completed a $30 million upgrade to its core IP network and MPLS edge that will enable more automated provisioning and guarantee performance on midband Ethernet connections.