Objectivity, Inc. announces that Objectivity/DB has been selected and deployed by sunrise communications in their Sigma Plus network management system for sunrise’s voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) services. sunrise, Switzerland’s second largest telecommunications provider, is the country’s only alternative full service company that can offer residential and business customers integrated telecommunications solutions meeting the latest technological standards. The Objectivity/DB based Sigma Plus is a network management system for VoIP offering uncompromising performance with comprehensive functions for increased efficiency and transparent cost accounting with other systems.

Real time or pre-provisioning of services activation enables sunrise to quickly respond to demands for VoIP services without the need for additional hardware or costly field service calls. Sigma Plus also provides full FCAPS (fault-management, configuration, accounting, performance, and security) and OAM&P (operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning) functionality. Sigma Plus is a network management system for managing IP-based voice and data services. For accounting, Sigma Plus interfaces with systems from leading telecommunications suppliers including Nortel, Cisco and Avaya. Through the use of existing data infrastructures, sunrise’s system has an immediate positive impact on reducing their customer’s capital and operational costs.

Using Objectivity/DB distributed architecture; Sigma Plus remote network operators can easily manage a network of PBX systems for multi-site business environments. Different external databases can be connected to the system with predefined interface definitions like LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to enable direct exchange of data with third party applications. Objectivity/DB serves as the persistent storage repository for Sigma Plus. As the provisioning engine to set-up, operate and maintain PBX (Private Branch Exchange) systems as well as expanding communication capabilities via VoIP, Sigma Plus stores all configuration data in the Objectivity database. Objectivity delivers unlimited scalability and a distributed architecture, which is key to sunrise’s Sigma Plus’ functionality.

“Objectivity/DB ensures that sunrise’s Sigma Plus voice-over IP network management system delivers performance, flexibility and unlimited scalability to their business and healthcare customers,” said Rich Shelley, Objectivity’s vice president of worldwide sales. “These attributes provide sunrise’s customers with a significant competitive advantage as they introduce new services and technologies to the marketplace.”

“Our Sigma Plus network management system provides maximum reliability, flexible management and uncompromising performance for VoIP communication services. The Sigma Plus system offers comprehensive voice management functionality with secure and scalable access to critical network information in real-time,” said Martin Hengartner, product manager applications for sunrise. “Objectivity/DB offers the distribution, reliability, and most importantly, the scalability required to operate in our customers’ highly dynamic and distributed communications environments.”