Lucent Technologies to Integrate DSET Number Portability Solution with its New Service Management System for Service Provider Networks - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, Feb 21, 2000

DSET Corporation. leading supplier of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the telecom industry, announced Tuesday that Lucent Technologies will integrate DSET's Local Service Management System (LSMS) with the Lucent Enhanced Services Manager (eSM), a software product that provides carriers with support for intelligent networks and enhanced services. The DSET LSMS helps customers in the United States and Canada to keep their local telephone numbers when they switch their phone service to another carrier.

"The addition of a customized version of DSET's LSMS to our eSM product will provide Lucent's customers with a one-source solution for implementing comprehensive, enhanced services capabilities," said Lucent product manager Jim Hudmon. "In addition to local number portability, Lucent's Enhanced Services Manager will support a variety of services across the wireline, wireless, and IP/Data markets."

"Lucent recognized that integrating our number-portability solution was a perfect fit for their service management capabilities," commented Paul Smith, DSET's senior vice president of strategic planning and product management. "Making use of an existing DSET product that's widely recognized for its capabilities enabled Lucent to realize significant economic and time-to-market benefits. Already deployed by many carriers, our LSMS will now facilitate operations for a wide range of telecom providers through our partnership with Lucent."

DSET Corporation is a leading provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the global telecommunications marketplace. The DSET suite of electronic-bonding gateways is designed to interconnect the operations support systems (OSSs) of service providers that must exchange information and share network capabilities as trading partners to provision and maintain a growing range of services for customers in the competitive telecom market. DSET's local number portability solutions play a key role in enabling business and residential customers to change service providers without changing their local phone numbers. DSET is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and the company's Web site can be viewed at www.dset.com.