As service providers shift their focus from providing basic dial tone and data connectivity to content-rich multimedia services, they must find new ways to get services to market faster and more cost effectively. In addition, they need new systems to support provisioning, selling and managing content, such as acquiring, cataloging and charging for content as well as providing Digital Rights Management (DRM) capabilities.

Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) are becoming an important part of the network for carriers looking to offer multimedia services over multi-vendor, multi-protocol networks. SDPs provide a platform for:

• Network resource integration
• Service brokering
• Service provisioning
• Service management including billing, maintenance and customer care
• Defining, packaging and pricing services
• Content acquisition and management

tekVizion leverages its expertise with both legacy and next-generation network architectures and protocols, unparalleled product and interoperability experience, and a thorough understanding of the issues surrounding call processing and application interaction to provide integration between SDPs and network resources as well as OSS/BSS systems. Working with the leading vendors of service delivery components, tekVizion leverages its proven processes to help carriers FastForward>>^SM the deployment of Service Delivery solutions and Integrated Services.