Tandem Computers Lands Major Contract with Islacom in Philippines

Strategic Insights -

Tandem Computers Incorporated announced that Isla Communications Company, Inc. (Islacom), a leading telecommunications services provider in the Philippines, has chosen Tandem computing servers to architect a customer billing and care system for its international telecommunications gateway. The gateway, located in Cebu, will provide global telephony capabilities to residents and businesses in the second largest city and neighboring islands. Islacom's network element interface system features best-of-class telephony applications from GTE's Network Management Organization and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems' X-International unit.

Key Takeaways:

  • Tandem Computers Incorporated has landed a major contract with Islacom, a leading telecommunications services provider in the Philippines, to provide computing servers for its customer billing and care system.
  • The system will be used for Islacom's international telecommunications gateway, which will provide global telephony capabilities to residents and businesses in Cebu and neighboring islands.
  • Islacom's network element interface system features best-of-class telephony applications from GTE's Network Management Organization and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems' X-International unit.
  • Tandem's Himalaya massively parallel servers will be used to power the system, which will collect call detail records from the gateway switches and provide linkage to the billing system.
  • The system will be built by Strategic Solutions Integrators (s2i2), a Manila-based company that has partnered with Tandem to provide the technology.
  • B.H.A. Computer, a Brisbane-based company, will distribute and support the CBIS-Advantage, an integrated billing and customer care system developed by X-International.
  • Islacom's manager of information systems, Bong Cosca, stated that the company is adopting a new approach to billing systems, which is more interactive, transaction-based, and flexible in its design.
  • Tandem's President, Victor Sandoval, said that Islecom is building a reliable and scalable system that can be used in various market environments.

Statistics:

  • Islacom plans to have about 700,000 local exchange lines installed in the Visayas region of the Philippines by the year 2000.
  • Tandem Computers Incorporated is the leader in continuously available, open, parallel processing, reliable client/server solutions, decision support systems, and enterprise networks.

Sources:

  • Tandem Computers Incorporated, Press Release, "Islacom Chooses Tandem Computing Servers for Customer Billing and Care System" (May 30, 1995)
  • Business Wire, "Islacom, Tandem Computers Announce Partnership" (May 30, 1995)
  • note to editors, "Tandem Computers Incorporated"