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Central Services Organization, Inc. (1983) Bell Communications Research, Inc. (1984-1999) | |
Private | |
Industry | Telecom Research |
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Predecessor | Bell Telephone Laboratories |
Founded | October 1983; 36 years ago |
Headquarters | Bridgewater, NJ U.S.A |
Richard Jacowleff (CEO) | |
Products | Fraud & Identity Numbering Messaging Network & Operations Industry Registries |
Owners | Ericsson (2012–present) Francisco Partners (16.7%, 2017–present)[1] |
Number of employees | 500+ (2017) |
Website | iconectiv.com |
iconectiv is a company that provides network and operations management, numbering, registry and fraud prevention solutions[buzzword] solve communications problems, support complex operations missions and system interoperability issues for the global telecommunications industry. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey (U.S.), iconectiv has more than 5,000 customers on six continents and maintains several branches and subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
To aid the transition to the following chapters, section 1.2 includes a brief introduction to reliability. Chapter 2 is an overview of reliability assessment methods of reliability models and life testing. The following Chapter 3 explains failure rate prediction in detail based on the method of IEC 61709. The latest two updates are SR-332 Issue 2 (September 2006) and SR-332 Issue 3 (January 2011), both called 'Reliability Prediction Procedure for Electronic Equipment.' The Bellcore/Telcordia standard assumes a serial model for electronic parts and it addresses failure rates at the infant mortality stage and at the steady-state stage with Methods I, II and III 2-3.
A major architect of the United States telecommunications system. iconectiv pioneered many services, including caller ID, call waiting, mobile number portability and toll-free telephone number (800) service. It also pioneered the prepaid charging system, the Intelligent Network and has been selected as the U.S. Policy Administrator by the Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority (STI-GA), to oversee the first and most critical step in applying the FCC-endorsed initiative to help U.S. mobile service providers stop illegal robocalls.[2]
iconectiv provides numbering services in more than a dozen countries, including serving as the Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA) for the United States. In that capacity, iconectiv manages the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC), the system that supports the implementation of local number portability and is used to facilitate number porting in the United States.
Founding[edit]
iconectiv was established on October 20, 1983, as Central Services Organization[3] as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up the Bell System. It later received the name Bell Communications Research. Nicknamed Bellcore, it was a consortium established by the Regional Holding Companies upon their separation from AT&T. Since AT&T retained Bell Laboratories, the operating companies desired a separate research and development facility. Bellcore, the tenth company to register an Internet domain name in comTLD, provided joint research and development, was involved in standards setting, training, and centralized government point-of-contact functions for its co-owners, the seven Regional Holding Companies that were themselves divested from AT&T as holding companies for the 22 local Bell Operating Companies.
Bellcore's initial staff and corporate culture were drawn from the nearby Bell Laboratories locations in northern New Jersey, plus additional staff from AT&T and regional operating companies. The company originally had its headquarters in Livingston with dedication by New Jersey GovernorThomas Kean in 1985, but moved its headquarters to Morristown a decade later. Bellcore also operated the former Bell System Center for Technical Education in Lisle, Illinois.
Separation from the Baby Bells[edit]
In 1996, the company was provisionally acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).[4] The sale was closed one year later, following a regulatory approval process that covered all the states individually. Since the divested company no longer had any ownership connection with the Bell regional companies, the name was officially changed to Telcordia Technologies. in 1999.[5] The headquarters was moved to Piscataway, New Jersey.[6]
The former headquarters campus in Morristown and its offices and laboratories in Red Bank, New Jersey, are former Bell Labs locations that were transferred to Telcordia.
Equal stakes in the company were sold in March 2005 to Providence Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus.[7]
Acquisition by Ericsson[edit]
On June 14, 2011, Ericsson announced an agreement to acquire Telcordia for $1.15 billion.[8] On January 12, 2012, Telcordia became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson.[9]On June 15, 2011, Ericsson announced the completion of the purchase from private-equity firms Providence Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus,[10][11] with the goal to pursue industry trends that include mobile broadband, managed services/outsourcing and global OSS/BSS transformation.[12] The acquisition, which officially closed on January 12, 2012,[13] added about 2,600 employees to Ericsson’s staff.[14] On June 4, 2012, Telcordia and its products were officially rebranded as Ericsson.[15]
In the process of integration, Telcordia’s Advanced Technology Solutions business unit, the company’s research arm, was rebranded as Applied Communication Sciences, and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson that operated operating independently on day-to-day operations pursuant to a proxy structure mandated by the U.S. government.[16] In October 2012, Applied Communication Sciences relocated its headquarters to Basking Ridge, New Jersey, occupying the former headquarters of AT&T Wireless.
In February 2013, Ericsson launched iconectiv for its interconnection business.[17] During this time, Ericsson maintained its corporate presence in Plano, TX and iconectiv’s corporate presence in New Jersey. In July 2017, iconectiv moved its headquarters from Piscataway to Bridgewater, New Jersey.[18]
Francisco Partners investment[edit]
On August 10, 2017, Francisco Partners announced a $200 million investment in iconectiv and received a 16.7 percent ownership stake in the company.[19]
Notable clients[edit]
In 2015, iconectiv won a contract procured by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC).[20] The service had been operated by Neustar Inc. for 18 years. iconectiv completed the transition from Neustar on May 29, 2018 becoming the Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA) for the United States.[21]
iconectiv was awarded the contract from CTIA to provide Common Short Code (CSC) Registry Services, effective January 1, 2016.[22]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Francisco Partners buys 16.7% stake in Ericsson's iconectiv'. Telecompaper.com. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^'Mitigating Illegal Robocalling Advances with Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority Board's Selection of iconectiv as Policy Administrator'. Yahoo.com.
- ^Restated Articles of incorporation of Bell Communications Research, Inc.
- ^Dr. J. Robert Beyster with Peter Economy (2007). The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-0470097526.
- ^State of Delaware, Office of the Secretary of State, March 17, 1999
- ^Tim McElligott & Jason Meyers, BELLCORE 3.0, Connected Planet, September 22, 2003 – accessed July 8, 2010
- ^'SAIC Completes Sale of Telcordia to Providence Equity and Warburg Pincus'. Leidos.com.
- ^Ericsson to acquire Telcordia, press release, Ericsson, 2011-06-14
- ^'Ericsson closes Telcordia acquisition'. 2012-01-12.
- ^'Ericsson to Acquire Telcordia for $1.15 Billion'. New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^'Ericsson Says It Will Buy Telcordia for $1.15 Billion'. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^'Ericsson deepens back-office focus with Telcordia acquisition'. Connected Planet. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^'Ericsson closes Telcordia acquisition for US $1.15bn after short delay'. Vanilla Plus. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^'Ericsson To Buy Telcordia For $1.2 Billion To Add Services'. Bloomberg. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^'Say Goodbye To Telcordia'. Light Reading. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^'Telcordia Applied Communication Sciences Becomes Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Telcordia Technologies'. OSS News Review. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^Interconnection solutions renamed iconectiv
- ^'Global Piscataway Telecommunications Firm Moving to Bridgewater'. iconectiv.com. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
- ^'Francisco Partners completes investment in Ericsson's iconectiv business'. Ericsson.com. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^Kasra Kangarloo (2015-03-26). 'NeuStar loses bid for lucrative contract after FCC recommendation'. Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
- ^'Layoffs at Ericsson's iconectiv'. Light Reading.
- ^'CTIA names Iconectiv to manage short-code registry'. Telecompaper. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iconectiv&oldid=914510914'
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This assumes that there are no interaction failures between the components but, in reality, due to the design or manufacturing, components are not independent. Figure 4 shows the data and calculated parameters. Because of dissatisfaction with military handbook methods for their commercial rr-332, Bellcore designed its own reliability prediction standard for commercial telecommunication products.
Several popularly used models are discussed next.
These standards use a series of gellcore for various categories of electronic, electrical and electro-mechanical components to predict steady-state failure rates which environmental conditions, quality levels, electrical stress conditions and various other parameters affect. An extended range of complexity for devices, and the addition of new devices.
Usually, the lower the values, the more conservative the estimation. The models allow reliability prediction to be performed using three methods for predicting product reliability: Finally, we will discuss life testing methods, which are used to determine reliability by testing a relatively large number of samples at their specified operation stresses or higher stresses and using statistical models to analyze the data. The failure rate is 9. Device and unit failure rate predictions generated using this procedure are applicable for commercial electronic products whose physical design, manufacture, installation, and reliability assurance practices meet the appropriate Telcordia or equivalent generic and product-specific requirements.
Method III is a statistical prediction of failure rate based on field tracking data collected in accordance with specific SR criteria. Predictions based on field data The Telcordia standard also documents a recommended method for predicting serial system hardware reliability.
Tables needed to facilitate the calculation of reliability predictions. Empirical prediction methods are based on models developed from statistical curve fitting of historical failure data, which may have been collected in the field, hr-332 or from manufacturers. At the end of the s, J.
Features Powerful and user friendly Telcordia telecom standard reliability prediction software Combine prediction methods for complex analysis Optimize designs to meet targeted goals Select components with regard to reliability and cost savings Be more accurate and efficient than with manual methods Take advantage of powerful ‘what if’ analytical tools Identify weak areas in a system design Build and open multiple systems and projects files Drag and drop components and systems between projects Powerful charting facilities.
After the analysis is complete, ITEM ToolKit’s integrated environment comes into its own with powerful conversion facilities for transferring data to other modules of the program. Fatigue failures can occur in electronic devices due to temperature cycling and thermal shock.
Black developed an empirical model to estimate the MTTF of a wire, taking electromigration into consideration, which is now generally known as the Black model. As new sub blocks and components are added, ITEM ToolKit automatically recalculates all dependent failure rates to take account of new information. The standard provides the generic failure rates and three part stress factors: The model takes the following form.
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Features Powerful and user friendly Telcordia telecom standard reliability prediction software Combine prediction methods for complex analysis Optimize designs to meet targeed goals Select components with regard to reliability and cost savings Be more accurate and efficient than with manual methods Take advantage of powerful ‘what if’ analytical tools Identify weakareas in a system design Build and open multiple systems and projects files Drag and drop components and systems between projects Powerful charting facilities.
However, if you think your products do not exhibit a constant failure rate and therefore cannot be described by an exponential distribution, the life characteristic usually will not be the MTBF. Reliability and Maintainability Symp. Historically, this term has been bellcoer to denote the process of applying mathematical models and component data for the purpose of estimating the field reliability of a system before failure data are available for the system.
This procedure also documents a recommended method for predicting serial system hardware reliability. Download Demo Web Demo Spec Sheet Training Screen shots click to enlarge Grid view Dialog view Chart view Features Powerful and user friendly Telcordia telecom standard reliability prediction software Combine prediction methods for complex analysis Optimize designs to meet targeed goals Select components with regard to reliability and cost savings Be more accurate and efficient than with manual methods Take advantage of powerful ‘what if’ analytical tools Identify weakareas in a system design Build and open multiple systems and projects files Drag and drop components and systems between projects Powerful charting facilities.
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When using SR, you may need to refer to GR It is probably the most internationally recognized empirical prediction method, by far. View Table of Contents Payment Processing. While the Arrhenius model emphasizes the dependency of reactions on temperature, the Eyring model is commonly used for demonstrating the dependency of reactions on stress factors other than temperature, such as mechanical stress, humidity or voltage.
The system’s failure rate hellcore equal to the bellvore of the failure rates of the components involved. Permanent damage accumulates each time the device experiences a normal power-up and power-down cycle.
Bellcore/Telcordia Reliability Prediction in Lambda Predict
Generally, chemical reactions can be accelerated by increasing the system temperature. Screen shots click to enlarge. Issue 4 of SR contains: Users can construct hierarchical breakdowns of systems with no restrictions on block numbers or levels of indenture.
It can also be used directly by telecommunications service providers for product reliability evaluation.
The Turnover Point,” Proc. The current bellccore J and temperature T are factors in the design process that affect electromigration. Revised environmental factors in Section 9 based on field data and experience. The Black model employs external heating and increased current density and is given by:.
The failure rate for a part under the reference conditions is calculated as:.