WaveSmith Networks, a company focused on multiservice switching for carriers, announced a strategic partnership with AP Engines, a provider of workflow-enabled service creation and network usage management systems for telephony and broadband providers. Under this partnership, WaveSmith will participate in AP Engines' AP QuickLink adapter program. As a result WaveSmith gains billing mediation functionality required for seamless integration of its multiservice switch into a carrier environment.

As carriers introduce new elements into their network, the complexity OSS integration of billing, provisioning, and other back office functions has increased. WaveSmith claims it is the first vendor to develop a multiservice switch that allows legacy networks to migrate existing services into new IP-based infrastructures. It has been designed to support a multiservice migration that leverages services with the performance and scalability of next-generation core capacity.

AP Engines developed the AP QuickLink Adapter program specifically to meet the needs of partners such as WaveSmith. As members of the program, hardware vendors can develop an adapter to quickly integrate the AP Billing Mediation Platform with new network elements.

About AP Engines, Inc.:

AP Engines provides a complete OSS integration platform for telephony and broadband service providers. For more information, visit www.apengines.com.

About WaveSmith Networks:

WaveSmith Networks, based in Acton, MA, is focused on redefining multiservice switching that enables carriers to build out their existing infrastructures by rapidly and more efficiently distributing new optical core capacity with telephony-grade reliability. For more information, visit www.wavesmithnetworks.com.