Sigma Systems, (www.sigma-systems.com) a recognized industry leader has been asked to present a service provider case study with one of the US’s leading cable operators at the upcoming Management World Conference, by the TM Forum. The Management World Conference is to be held in Nice, France where Sigma will be at booth 87 demonstrating its solutions for residential triple play, advanced advertising, hosted commercial voice and mobile services.

Chief Technology Officer of Sigma, Brian Cappellani is to present a case study on Rogers Communications, in partnership with Thomas Vari, SVP IT, and CIO Cable for Rogers Communications. This presentation will be named “Converged Broadband Services Fulfilment…Delivered,” and is to detail RCI’s success with Sigma Advanced IP Service Fulfilment Solutions to deploy and fulfil a common set of broadband services.

Attendees at the conference will learn how Sigma has enabled Rogers to extend its network reach and offer its addressable subscriber base a variety of options to access broadband services. How Rogers’ service assets have been commonly defined, reused and provisioned over multiple access network technologies. The importance of investing in IP service fulfilment infrastructure to enable business transformation in enabling multiple, IP-based service bundles, and the business benefits of a common IP service fulfilment architecture as it relations to ongoing operational expenditures.

Moderated by Sector head for Cable Markets, TM Forums, Kelly Anderson, The Rogers Communications/Sigma Systems case study is being presented in the “Delivering Innovative Services to the Cable Customer” module at 11.00 am on the 22nd of May 2008 at TM Forum’s Management World 2008, Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice, France.

At their booth, booth 87, Sigma will be highlighting their world leadership in enabling advanced IP services which include video, voice, high data speed, multimedia and premium content to any device on any network. Sigma is also to pioneer the evolution to “applications enablement,” which means making it viable for service providers to quickly deploy the latest applications and further differentiate themselves from any competition by offering a distinctive and personalised user experience.

Sigma presently manages in excess of 50 deployments for CSPs and a combined total of roughly 100,000,000 IP services worldwide, and product demonstrations at booth 87 will include: Sigma’s Hosted Commercial Voice Solution, which automates the complex IP service fulfilment functions required to deliver voice services with a full set of calling features, including call forwarding, call display, call answer and hunt groups, as well as innovative IP-based communication features such as find me/follow me and unified messaging. Also it provides a web portal for SMB customers to manage their phone service remotely. The solution also supports LNP for multiple telephone number ordering and complex directory listings needed by businesses to preserve the investment in their phone numbers.

Further demonstrations will cover: Sigma’s Residential Triple-Play Solution, which enables the delivery of video, voice, high-speed data and ISP services. CSPs can rapidly introduce and deliver incremental messaging, entertainment services and premium content on top of defined triple-play bundles with Sigma’s complete, end-to-end solution. Sigma’s Advanced Advertising Solution, which is aligned with next-generation video standards, and demonstrates how subscriber data can be captured, correlated, analysed and subsequently leveraged to drive advanced advertising campaign decisions.

Another demonstration will be Sigma’s Mobile Solution, which enables the service creation, service bundling and fulfilment process capabilities to deliver multiple services in a multi-technology mobile network domain. With Sigma, CSPs can automate the delivery of services such as voice telephony and voice features, IM/SMS/MMS, push-to-talk, premium content and broadband Internet capabilities with the push of a button.

Source — Press Release