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JACOBSRIMELL AND UTC ASSOCIATES FORM ALLIANCE TO PROVIDE OPERATORS WITH AN END TO END VOIP SOLUTION Boston, MA: September 26, 2006—JacobsRimell (JR), the leading provider of customer-centric IP service fulfillment solutions and UTC Associates, a leading systems and network integrator to VoIP-based service providers, today announced a partnership that will advance an operators ability to roll out cost effective VoIP services to their customer base. As part of the formal alliance, UTC will resell JR’s APS platform as part of its turn-key VoIP solution giving service providers an end to end scalable platform for VoIP service fulfillment. UTC offers VoIP design and analysis testing as well as technology consulting through their one touch flow through provisioning approach. JacobsRimell’s APS platform is distinguished by its unique information architecture, aggregating and normalizing all the customer, infrastructure and service information necessary for reliable multi-service delivery in one scalable reference configuration repository. UTC is harnessing the power of APS™ to help operators automate and better scale their VoIP implementations and adoption rates. The JR solution hides the complexity of VoIP and call feature provisioning behind its smart user interface. “In order to meet the growing customer interest in VoIP-related services, today's service providers require technology solutions that can help them to address both the technical and the business challenges that VoIP rollout presents," said Aziz Ahmad, President and CEO of UTC Associates. "By tapping into the strength of JacobsRimell's technology solution that can be seamlessly integrated into existing networks, we will be able to more easily assist service providers with both rapidly deploying their hosted VoIP offerings and scaling those services appropriately to meet customer demand." JR has been delivering customer-centric service fulfillment and management solutions for the past seven years. JR’s solution is based around a patented information management architecture, allowing operators to simultaneously configure and manage multiple IP services from a single OSS platform. The solution provides voice (VoIP), Television (iDTV, VOD, IPTV) and hi-speed Internet (access, games, applications pay-as-you-go, etc.) services to more than 11 million subscribers today through its customers which include Comcast Cable and Liberty Media. “At JacobsRimell, we have developed a solution based on our highly flexible APS™ platform to solve the operational challenges of introducing advanced solutions,” said David Scholnick, Vice President North American Channels for JacobsRimell. “By combining UTC’s expertise and experience in deploying VoIP networks with our experience and approach to service management and fulfillment of VoIP services, we are providing operators with an end to end solution for the efficient creation and rollout of VoIP.” The JacobsRimell Alliance program is a network of technology partners, consulting organizations, systems integrators, and resellers who co-develop services and solutions that help forward-thinking service providers bring to market innovative broadband products and services. JR’s relationships or product integrations include BEA, DST Innovis (now AMDOCS), CSG, Cisco, Cedarpoint, Computer Associates, OpenTV, Satyam, Auspice, Apertio, BEA, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. About JacobsRimell Operators with JacobsRimell’s solution can increase adoption rates by being able to create personalized and targeted offerings that can be subscribed to and turned on by customers themselves. With around 11 million customers in the worlds largest Cable MSO’s managed using JacobsRimell’s solution, operational performance and scalability are proven. Founded in 1997, JacobsRimell (www.jacobsrimell.com) is headquartered in London with offices in the US, and Europe. JacobsRimell is a privately held company financed by leading telecom venture capital firms Advent International, DN Capital, eTechnology VCT and Fidelity Ventures. UTC contact details: Suzanne Guglielmi |