Catching up on the news today, and there's quite a bit to see. Here's an announcement that caught my eye from my friends at Sigma Systems. They've shown some real leadership in a couple of key areas in the past year, and that's paying off as they cross the 1000 million threshold in service fulfillment. That's a significant number. Congrats to Sigma Systems.

Sigma Systems surpasses 100 million managed Quad-Play IP services globally, extending its market leadership position

Toronto, ON - April 16, 2008 - Sigma Systems (www.sigma-systems.com) today announced that its IP service fulfilment solution has surpassed managing over 100 million bundled IP services for communications service providers globally. The company's award-winning advanced IP service fulfilment solutions, which enable efficient delivery of new services such as VoIP, IPTV, mobile and broadband data services over any network technology to any device, continue to drive Sigma's success in well over 50 deployments worldwide.

"We are proud to be ensuring the highest levels of service fulfilment and satisfaction for our service provider customers who are, in turn, providing their own customers with an unprecedented service experience,"
said Tim Spencer, President and COO for Sigma Systems. "Our extensive market deployments in the IP service fulfilment space is bolstered by the strength of our solutions, the company's strong financial performance and our recognized expertise in IP service fulfilment. Sigma remains poised for continued and accelerating growth in the cable space and holds significant growth potential within the wireless, telco and satellite markets."

Sigma's customers include some of the largest service providers in the world, with more than 50 successful installations in North America, EMEA, CALA and AsiaPac. In addition, Sigma boasts the most widely deployed residential VoIP service management solution, with over six million lines of voice telephony deployed worldwide.

"The broadband IP services market will grow 18% CAGR through 2011 according to OSS Observer's Communications Service Provider Market Review, September 2007. Cable MSOs and telcos alike are increasing their investments in service fulfilment for both commercial and residential services," said Larry Goldman, Founder and Senior Analyst at OSS Observer. "With its triple play deployment history, Sigma Systems is well positioned to capitalise in these market segments."

"We see three key trends affecting the requirements for IP service fulfilment platforms within the service provider market," adds Sigma's Tim Spencer. "The number of services is exploding in this everything-on-demand (X-OD) application environment. People are accessing services and content with a wide range of devices. Thirdly, two-sided-business models and the supporting enablers that allow service providers and their partners the freedom to roll out a broad range of IP Services are paramount to their collective long-term success."

A privately held company, Sigma is debt-free, profitable and has achieved an annual growth rate averaging 46% for the past four consecutive years.

About Sigma Systems
Sigma Systems (www.sigma-systems.com) is the proven global leader in delivering advanced IP service fulfilment solutions. Sigma's powerful OSS solutions enable the world's Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to deliver any service, over any access technology to any device. The company's award-winning software solutions include products for the fulfilment of Triple, Quad and All-Play services - defined as "New Services...Delivered".

Sigma is a pioneer of Applications Enablement where new services and applications can be rapidly and efficiently enabled in a single system.

Enablement includes service orchestration - where subscriber policy management, authorisation and entitlement processes, and business rules are managed and openly available for real-time service fulfilment.

Sigma's heritage includes over 12 years of proven solution delivery experience in multi-service, multi-technology operating environments.

Today, Sigma manages 50 deployments for CSPs with a combined total of approximately 100 million IP services deployed worldwide.