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MILAN and ST. LOUIS, MO- May 8, 2007 - Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the customer experience systems innovation company and Fastweb (Milan, MTAX: FWB), Italy’s second-largest fixed telecommunications services provider, today announced that Fastweb has expanded its commitment with Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division. Fastweb is using Amdocs’ Cramer operations support systems (OSS) solutions to manage the integrity of network data throughout the network lifecycle. Italian systems integrator ONE-ANS implemented the solution.
“With the expanded capabilities of this new solution, Fastweb can optimize its network planning and deployment processes, enabling us to maximize our return on network investments,” said Tommaso Speroni, director of OSS Systems for Fastweb. “Amdocs’ Cramer solutions deliver increased network accuracy and alignment in Fastweb’s OSS. This accuracy will enable us to realize reductions in capital and operating expenditures – savings we can invest elsewhere in the business to enhance the customer experience.”
Fastweb has deployed additional products within Amdocs’ Cramer OSS Suite, including Discovery Engine and Sync Engine, to manage data within its network. Amdocs’ Cramer Discovery Engine enables Fastweb to recognize all elements in its network and to ensure the information and configuration of elements is accurately collected and encapsulated within its OSS. Amdocs’ Cramer Sync Engine dynamically tracks resource utilization and realigns the OSS with the as-built network. Together, Discovery Engine and Sync Engine provide Fastweb with a tightly integrated system that ensures data integrity from the time a network element is introduced until it is decommissioned.
“As service providers like Fastweb continue to deliver innovative new services, network data quality and data reconciliation are critical for accurate fulfillment,” said Guy Dubois, president of Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division. “By addressing the issues around data integrity, Fastweb can improve its fulfillment process and reduce the time to market, ultimately resulting in reduced capital and operational expenditures.”
“Fastweb is an important player in the Italian market and we are looking forward to continuing our long-standing collaboration with them,” said Angelo Zucchetti, OSS director of ONE-ANS. “Amdocs’ best-in-class fulfillment solution and ONE-ANS’ solid experience in OSS deployments for a number of service providers in Italy have delivered an OSS solution for optimal network and resource management.”
ONE-ANS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italtel. Specializing in information technology and telecommunications, ONE-ANS is one of the leading Italian firms operating in the Solution Integrations sector in environments with heterogeneous infrastructures, supporting companies and service providers in all major areas of Information Technology over Internet Protocol communications infrastructures, covering the entire solution lifecycle.
About Amdocs
Amdocs is the customer experience systems innovation company, enabling world-leading service providers to deliver an integrated, innovative and intentional customer experience TM – at every point of service. Amdocs provides solutions that deliver customer experience excellence, combining the software, service and expertise to help our customers execute their strategies and achieve service, operational & financial excellence. A global company with revenue of $2.48 billion in fiscal 2006, Amdocs has over 16,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com
About Fastweb
FASTWEB is Italy’s second largest fixed telephony operator and the first player worldwide to develop an all IP network for Triple Play service delivery, currently operating in more than 130 Italian cities via a network of more than 22,000 km. FASTWEB uses a unique technological model combining extensive use of the Internet Protocol (IP) for voice, data and video transmission with optical fiber and xDSL technology. For business users it offers advanced competitive services in all market segments – public authorities, large, medium and small organizations, professionals, business concerns, universities and research. The residential offer provides Internet access at the top speed available today in Italy (up to 10 Mbit/s for optical fiber; 6 Mbit/s for ADSL, the possibility to raise the access rate up to 20 Mbit/s using ADSL 2 PLUS technology and the transmission rate to 1 Mbit/s), as well as a growing range of high value added video services (including video on demand).
Amdocs Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs’ growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs’ ability to grow in the business segments it serves, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company’s products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, however the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, filed on December 13, 2006 and in our quarterly 6-K furnished on February 6, 2007.
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