IPCentricITy™ Communications Solutions

IP technology has radically transformed business and the means of communications as we know it. The fundamental architecture of the networks has changed by decoupling the services from the networks delivering them. The resulting Next Generation Networks are a very different and dynamic environment than we’ve ever known in the communications industry.

Our clients have new demands and high expectations, new competitors, new threats and new partnership opportunities. All this activity enables new service offering opportunities limited only by the imagination. Communications companies have accepted that revolutionary technologies can be embraced and capitalized upon or they can be ignored, resulting in certain business failure. The price for doing nothing is too great.

Our clients today have the challenge of ensuring they can offer compelling new services in an accelerated and agile fashion to keep pace with the “web-time” standard in the transformed world. In addition, they are confronted with the dilemma of how to make their services integral to their customers daily life essentially capturing 24 hour mindshare – whether the end user is at home watching TV, at the office doing work or leading the team to victory on the soccer field.

IPCentricITy can help you get there.

IPCentricITy is CGI's vision and action plan for the future of the communications industry. It is born out of a passion to understand how we can help our clients realize the potential benefits that are enabled by convergent networks. It describes how the industry is changing and the challenges and opportunities these changes present to our clients.

Our communications solution expertise includes:

• Next Generation IP Communications Services – a suite of pre-built, foundation service components
• IPCentricITy Synthesis, our leading-edge IP service composition platform – facilitating rapid creation of new communication applications
• An innovative suite of Call Control on TV applications deployed on EBIF/eTV and tru2way™ video environments which leverage next generation technologies and demonstrate the power of voice, data, and video integration, demonstrating how our clients can raise their voice applications to a whole new level.
• The IPCentricITy Service Delivery Solution (SDS) – our unique open standard, reference architecture demonstrating CGI’s thought leadership and encapsulating our best-in-breed partner ecosystem approach.
• Convergent order management, rating and billing facilitated by CGI’s Tapestry suite.

These features and more have been proven in our IPCentricITy Solution Centers, which are our community of lab and test environments that demonstrate the architecture’s capabilities and enable the prototyping of service development.

Supporting all this is:

• The full complement of CGI’s core competencies with our demonstrated capability and experience in delivering IP-centric solutions including customized IP application development and the subsequent integration into operational and business systems
• A deeply knowledgeable team with practical experience in next generation services development
• Strategic affiliations with numerous partners and relevant standards organizations

Also see

		Brochures
		–	IPCentricITy: an overview of the practice and solutions encompassed by the IPCentricITy concept
		–	IPCentricITy Next Generation IP Applications: a brief overview of all the Next Generation IP applications being employed as the foundation for new products and services
		–	IPCentricITy Set Top Box Applications: see how communications service providers and MSOs can integrate voice, data and video capabilities to take their service offers to a whole new level
		–	IPCentricITy Service Delivery Solution: summary of the reference architecture that provides a framework of application components, templates and tools for the rapid design and development of revenue-producing services
		–	IPCentricITy Synthesis: a look at the Synthesis service composition platform which leverages our pre-built Next Generation IP services and accelerates new product offerings roll out
		–	Tapestry Adjunct Rater: an outline of IP rating capabilities to ensure you can capitalize on IP products
		–	Tapestry Service Manager: an outline of IP order orchestration across SDP, IMS and any other IP order management
		–	Tapestry Convergent Billing and Order Management
		Podcasts / Screencast
		–	Unlocking the Power of Convergence: CGI examines the current state of the communications industry to dispel common myths and to share where the REAL power of convergence lies. (Originally presented at the 2008 Canadian Telecom Summit)  Watch and listen to the screencast
		–	Capitalizing on Convergence: CGI’s approach and experience in helping telecom and cable providers take full advantage of triple- and quadruple-play opportunities  Listen to the podcast
		Presentations
		–	IPCentricITy, the transformation to next generation services
		–	Tapestry Service Manager – IP order management
		–	Tapestry Adjunct Rater – IP rating
		Whitepapers
		–	Untethering the End-User: The power of communications