Telecoms, Broadcast & Media

IPL's information engineering skills are much in demand in the converged telecoms, broadcast and new media market. Many of the UK's carrier networks rely critically on IPL software. Equally, IPL's development and consulting expertise lies at the heart of several high profile broadcast and new media companies.

Because we have such a wide range of hands-on experience in these fields, we offer something that goes far beyond “vanilla” IT skills: we can engage with our clients' problem owners, talking the language of their businesses, and guiding their projects always towards what is practical in their business context, and what is technically cost-effective.

Our clients are product manufacturers, network operators and service providers, including such household names as Alcatel-Lucent, O2, Orange, Tanderg TV and Vodafone.

IPL has special expertise in:

  • Enabling The Online Digital Media Age
  • Network Service Management
  • Carrier Core Network Intelligence
  • Data Governance
  • Customer Experience
  • Real Time Charging and Revenue Assurance

Enabling The Online Digital Media Age

Online digital media services are revolutionizing the music and video distribution business. In this rapidly emergent market, marketing innovation and technical agility are as important as systems performance and reliability. IPL's business analysts, product managers, designers and developers are supporting digital media companies from business concept through to live operation. We are involved in many domains from implementing business logic to support the online shop through to content distribution.

Network Service Management

IPL offers a wealth of expertise in classical large scale network management systems. We have supplied turnkey systems to several large network operators in the UK. Indeed, our know-how goes well beyond this with wide experience of modelling network service status, and customer service levels, in real time.

Carrier Core Network Intelligence

Many carriers rely on network intelligence platforms and network applications that have been developed by IPL. Our track record in core network systems and protocols, both circuit mode (SS7/MAP) and packet mode (SIP & SIGTRAN), is one of timely delivery, operational reliability, and outstandingly high performance. Having worked with several UK mobile operators for well over 12 years in this field we have outstanding technical depth to offer, particularly in the inter-networking and mediation of different manufacturers' products that comprise the typical operator's core service network. This expertise is key to planning and deploying a mixed network as NGN solutions come on stream.

Data Governance

Data is the life blood of media businesses, and as they mature, data governance becomes critical to their continued success. IPL offers intelligent and pragmatic consultancy and delivery in the areas of data audit, data lineage control, data cleansing and data migration.

Customer Experience

It's often technically difficult for network operators to get an accurate and timely view of their users' service experience. IPL has a great armoury of techniques and technologies for doing that. And if the users' experience is less than perfect, an intelligent and responsive customer relationship management interface is commercially vital. IPL has built customer handling systems for many large networked businesses.

Real Time Charging and Revenue Assurance

IPL has an outstanding track record in developing real time authentication, accounting and authentication systems for large network businesses. The combination of real time event processing and business critical action directly on the revenue stream calls for just the sort of technical excellence and business understanding that IPL delivers.