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December 04, 2006
Quality Concerns: Einar Aaland - CTO and founder of Owera, with Bob Emmerson
Owera focuses on generic provisioning tools for multiprotocol provisioning of IP devices (including TR-069) and market-ready product designs for SIP based CPEs, including a SIP Software Development Kit. Owera is an Oslo, Norway, based company with North American office in Cambridge Massachusetts. The company was founded in 2000.
Owera’s xAPS, eXtended Automatic Provisioning System, provides full automation of deployment and operation of IP devices and their services. The xAPS system features automatic install, automatic firmware upgrade, remote configuration, remote diagnostics and service monitoring. Owera’s xAPS is flexible for new products, and services, and scalable to millions of deployed devices. The xAPS system tracks retail/sign-up channels and keep separation of services where the
users are organized in groups for ease of operation. Updates provided by xAPS are transparent to the end user with no service interruption and are virtually hands-free for the ISP. Owera's xAPS
The Owera CPE Solution are ready-made product designs, including hardware and firmware for high-end, high-quality, cost-efficient CPEs with state-of-the-art Quality of Service (QoS). These designs enable a manufacturer to enter the market in a very short time. Owera has already performed interoperability, performance, functionality and security testing for these product designs. This will further shorten the time-to-market. The OEM only needs to finalise the product by selecting housing and packaging. These designs are included in the Owera SDK. A wide variety of product solution designs for CPEs is available. Among these are designs for Analog Terminal Adapters (ATA), VoIP Routers, Residential Gateways (RGW) and Integrated Access Devices (IAD).
Bob Emmerson, European Editor of VON Magazine, spoke with Einar Aaland, the CTO and founder of Owera.
Einar has extensive experience in the international electronics and telecommunication industry, with providing VoIP solutions to OEM/ODMs worldwide and automatic provisioning systems to telecommunication operators, ISPs and OEMs. He is a regular speaker at conferences and forums, addressing the opportunities and challenges assoiciated with delivering high quality IP services over low cost best-effort networks.
(To hear other podcasts in Bob Emmerson's Quality Concerns series click here.)
Posted at December 4, 2006 10:51 AM
