ROCKVILLE, Md.,September 19, 2000 - Hekimian, the leading provider of service assurance solutions for global network's today announced that it has joined the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program as an operational support systems (OSS) and Service Assurance partner providing solutions for communication service providers, including both CLECs and ILECs. Through Hekimian's membership in the Cisco New World Ecosystem, Hekimian brings increased productivity, lower costs of doing business and increased potential for sustaining a competitive advantage to customers, through its service assurance OSSs and remote test probes products.
"At Hekimian, our focus is on customer service and providing our customers with the best products possible," said Des Wilson, CEO and president of Hekimian. "Being part of the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program is another step to providing our customers, the very best in integrated, innovative products."
"The Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program delivers the power of choice to service providers with end-to-end solutions including our members' best-of-breed technologies," said Steve Hoch, director, Service Provider Marketing at Cisco. "Customers who deploy solutions provided by Cisco New World Ecosystem partners such as Hekimian benefit from industry-leading technologies and innovative, integrated products, accelerating their time to market with New World services."
Delivering Integrated End-to-End Solutions through Strategic Business Partnerships
The Cisco New World Ecosystem is a community of technology and deployment companies enabling service providers to seize revenue and service opportunities created by the convergence of circuit and packet networks. With Cisco leadership and member expertise, service providers gain efficiency, innovation, and flexibility along with the power to choose from best-of-breed products and services based on open industry standards. Key categories of member focus include OSS/BSS, Voice Applications and Packet Telephony, Broadband Access, and Solution Integration/Deployment. . Membership in the Cisco New World Ecosystem is offered to companies that demonstrate leading-edge capabilities and present mutual business opportunities.
About Hekimian
Rockville, MD-based Hekimian (www.hekimian.com) creates the information, automation and control solutions needed to deliver and assure voice, data and Internet services across today's virtual networks of multiple providers. The company's service assurance solutions support more central offices and service providers, address more technologies, and monitor more circuit points than those of any other independent global vendor. Founded in 1968, Hekimian is privately held by Axel Johnson Inc., and maintains manufacturing, sales and support offices in Maryland, California and Colorado.
