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Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. (LAA) announces its Real-Time Rating System
(RTRS) for the A.T.& T. 5ESS(R) telephone switch. The RTRS prices
telephone services for coin phone calls, credit card calls, collect
calls, and third party calls handled by telephone operators. It also
prices person-to-person and station calls.
The RTRS has already been delivered to two telephone companies,
Minnesota Equal Access Network Services (Plymouth, MN) and Brazoria
Telephone Company (Brazoria, TX). Minnesota Equal Access is a network
services company owned by more than sixty small telephone companies in
Minnesota. Brazoria Telephone Company is a small family-run company
located an hour's drive from Houston, TX.
The RTRS is implemented in Objective-C in the NextStep operating system
using distributed objects. It is available to run on Intel and Hewlett-
Packard computers. The RTRS is a high-demand mission-critical applica-
tion delivered on two redundant computer systems. The A.T.& T. 5ESS(R)
switch is connected to the RTRS over two X.25 digital links on which
transaction loads are shared. Each data link is connected to a separate
computer system.
LAA delivers the RTRS as a turn-key solution of hardware, software,
tariff database, training, and installation support. Delivery takes
approximately six weeks from contract signing.
RTRS consists of four major software components. Three of these
components run on NextStep and the fourth runs in the DOS/Windows
environment.
1. The "Real-Time Rating" component receives all the rating transactions
from the 5ESS switch, processes them, and answer the transactions. All
knowledge of the 5ESS switch is within.
2. The "TeleRate(tm) Rating" component performs all pricing of telephone
services. All knowledge of telephone services, their costs, and the
database of tariffs is within.
3. The "RTRS Control" component is an application which communicates
with the real-time process to stop, start, monitor, and modify the
mission-critical RTRS application.
4. The "RTRS Data Control" is a DOS/Windows suite of applications for
the tariff analysts who control the data on which pricing is based.
"TeleRate(tm) Rating" and "RTRS Data Control" components are used in our
"Operator Reference Data Base" product and act as servers when more than
one application which use them is running.
For more information, contact Mr. Carl Wright at +1 313 995-5590 or at
"wright@laa.com".
Mailing address: Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc.
2350 Green Road, Suite 160
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Fax phone: +1 313 995-5989
Immediate availability
5ESS(R) is a trademark of A.T.& T.