Telecommunications & Networking
Crossfire consultants have over one hundred (100+) plus years of experience in carrier based telecommunications and networking infrastructure covering engineering, operations, marketing and sales.
As new Internet-based services dominate the business landscape, the demands placed on existing telecommunications and networking infrastructure will dramatically increase driving the need to review and analyze the embedded base. Crossfire professionals have experience in all the major areas of telecommunications and networking technologies including SONET, ATM, Remote Access Services, Voice Recognition, WAN/LAN/VLAN, VPN, NAP design, SS7, SCP, Class 4/5 Digital Switch engineering, IP Switch engineering Interoffice Facilities, FTTH, Wireless, DSL and ISDN, IP V4 & V6, VoIP, SIP, Broadband, Satellite, Millimeter Microwave, Fiber Optics, Cable TV, Fiber to the Premise and FIOS to name a few.
Crossfire has managed and successfully delivered many Telecommunications, Networking, Transmission and Operational Support Systems development and management projects for its clients. Crossfire Telecommunications technologists are world-class and have successfully delivered projects to Fortune 500-1000 class clients as well as some of the largest telecommunications carriers in the world.
GSA-Networx
GSA Networx is an extremely important and large multi-part system awarded to a small number of Tier One U.S. Common Carriers. One such carrier is a continuous repeat client of Crossfire. Working for this company, Crossfire has been intimately involved as one of a very few specialized IT consulting organizations in Defining, Demonstrating and Developing over 50 Networx Telecom Products and associated technology and their related Ordering, Provisioning and Billing systems. Crossfire's engagement on Networx reports directly to the CIO of this carrier. We have over 40 consultants working at key locations and are integral to making this GSA product capability a well functioning reality.
Fiber to the Premise/TV, VoIP and Internet Service
U.S. Carriers and Cable Companies are in violent competition to provide high speed Internet and entertainment services to residential America. Crossfire has performed various consulting assignments to carriers and cable companies in the support of Operational Support Systems, Telecom Strategy and Broadband services. One such project is a Help Desk Operation supporting the largest implementation of Fiber Optic Technology for Broadband Services to residences and businesses. Another project provided by Crossfire for a cable company is the provision of project management and strategy consulting for their Voice over IP (VoIP) Services
Voice over IP (VoIP)
Crossfire consultants worked with a prominent world-renowned entity in the Voice over IP industry to analyze requirements for a VoIP Peering system, develop a business and technical plan and support business development for a VoIP Peering Company that was subsequently launched. VoIP Peering is the technology using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and which captures dialed calls, evaluates if there is an e-164 number (Internet telephone number) corresponding to the dialed number and if there is, the call is diverted without any time loss and delivered over the internet. By doing so, the call avoids routing over the Public Switched Telephone Network and therefore avoids the common carrier tariff charges levied by the carrier at the delivering end of the call, all with no loss in call quality.
RFP Development, Management and Analysis
Crossfire is continually called on by Tier-One Carriers and Cable Companies and other customers in launching a new service within the Internet space. This requires a comprehensive review of best-in-breed vendor services and products. Speed, accuracy, and clearly defined requirements are essential to this process in order to maintain the project schedule and cost parameters. Crossfire is well versed in the complete RFP process and the telecom technology, as well as preparation of the RFP package, defining a selection criteria based on organizational consensus and requirements, managing the distribution to a set of identified parties from a comprehensive market scan, coordinating the analysis process including team member recommendations and selection, scoring, communicating results and if required, contract negotiation.