SPEECH DESIGN Carrier Systems GmbH

SPEECH DESIGN is a leading European provider of messaging and mobility solutions for the corporate and carrier markets. More than 130,000 companies and millions of individual users benefit daily from SPEECH DESIGN´s added-value communications solutions delivered by our partners: Europe’s premier suppliers of enterprise and public networks. SPEECH DESIGN was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Germany.

THOR is the next generation voice and video application platform from SPEECH DESIGN. THOR spans the full range of today´s and tomorrow´s converged networks and applications, from 2G and 2,5G to 3G and IMS, from wireline to wireless, from voice-only to multimedia, thus granting carriers unprecedented flexibility to create a customer-centric, open environment of innovative service offerings.

The open standard based THOR architecture has since been implemented in many service configurations by major international carriers, while being constantly improved and expanded. It offers carriers a new, yet proven technology, greatly reducing early adopter risks.

With the rise of new standard protocols like VoiceXML and network technologies like IMS, this modular and flexible platform is ready for any challenge: new software modules are easily added to the THOR interface framework.

SPEECH DESIGN is using MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition as a key component of the THOR application platform. The MySQL database is responsible for core functions and services of the THOR Call Completion and Next Generation Messaging System. With the carrier grade availability and its high throughput architecture, it ensures time-critical operations for message-transactions and notification events. The database also stores global service configurations and messaging rule sets, as well as logging all user activity via CDRs (Call Detail Records). These CDRs allow accurate billing, revenue assurance and network/service statistics via the operators OSS/BSS (Operations Support Systems/Business Support Systems) infrastructure.

THOR systems are globally deployed and supported by SPEECH DESIGN´s partner network of leading system integrators.