Sigma Systems Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's 10th Annual Product of the...

Sigma Systems Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's 10th Annual Product of
the Year Award
Sigma Residential Voice Service Package Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

TORONTO, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ - Sigma Systems
(www.sigma-systems.com) announced today that Technology Marketing
Corporation's (TMC(R)) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named
the Sigma Residential Voice Service Package as a recipient of its 2007 Product
of the Year award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP authority since 1998.
The Sigma Residential Voice Service Package is a robust OSS service management
solution that is pre-configured to define, provision and maintain IP-based
voice services on any broadband network. The service package encapsulates the
voice services domain expertise and best practices that Sigma has gained from
working closely with over 20 VoIP operator deployments worldwide.
"INTERNET TELEPHONY's Product of the Year awards honor the leading
companies and achievements in our industry. We are extremely proud of this
award because it further validates our global leadership in the OSS industry
and in this particular segment," said Tim Spencer, President and Chief
Operating Officer for Sigma Systems. "With the Sigma Residential Voice Service
Package, CSPs realize significant business benefits while achieving the
highest levels of technical and service excellence. Our solution makes it
possible to significantly lower implementation times, costs and risks, ensures
accurate order management and provisioning operations, enables subscriber
self-care, increases revenue opportunities and reduces churn."
The Sigma Residential Voice Service Package makes it possible to quickly
optimize and automate end-to-end operational processes for voice services.
Service providers can cost-effectively scale to support millions of
subscribers. As well, they can rapidly create new bundles of residential
services, including voice service, voice mail and call features. When it is
time to fulfill orders, the underlying Sigma Service Management Platform
supports shorter order intervals, dramatic reductions in order fallout and
faster problem resolution. The end result is that voice service offerings are
maximized for customer satisfaction, increased revenue and reduced operations
costs.
"Sigma Systems has proven they are committed to quality and excellence
while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased
to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to their Sigma Residential Voice
Service Package," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of
INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. "We're proud to honor their hard work and
accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Sigma
Systems in the future."
A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the
February 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com). For more
information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.
About Sigma Systems
Sigma Systems (www.sigma-systems.com) is the proven global leader in
subscriber policy management and fulfillment solutions. These solutions enable
Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to deliver an infinite number of
subscribed and on-demand services and applications at the speed of life. The
company's award-winning software solutions include products for the
fulfillment of triple-play, quad-play and all-play services.
Sigma is pioneering the evolution to "applications enablement" where
value-added services can be quickly brought "on-board" and CSPs can "monetize"
their network. Enablement includes service orchestration - where subscriber
policy management, authorization and entitlement processes, and business rules
are managed and openly available for real-time service delivery. Sigma's
heritage includes over 11 years of proven solution delivery experience in
multi-service, multi-technology operating environments. Today, Sigma manages
50 deployments for communications service providers with a combined total of
over 30 million subscribers worldwide.
About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority since 1998(TM). Since the
first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been
providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space.
INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial
content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY
magazine has a circulation of 225,000 including pass-along readers. For more
information, please visit www.itmag.com.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction
Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine.
TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the
communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 6,000 most visited
Web sites in the world by alexa.com(x), TMCnet serves as many as three million
unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new
products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces
INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more
information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. ((x)alexa.com is an amazon.com
company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor
amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit
www.tmcnet.com.
Sigma Systems Contact: Christine Payne, PR Consultant, (416) 943-9696
x2833 or (905) 339-6655, christine.payne@sigma-systems.com; TMC Contact: Jan
Pierret, (203) 852-6800 x228, jpierret@tmcnet.com
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Sigma Systems Contact: Christine Payne, PR Consultant, (416) 943-9696 x2833 or
(905) 339-6655, christine.payne@sigma-systems.com; TMC Contact: Jan Pierret,
(203) 852-6800 x228, jpierret@tmcnet.com