TEOCO

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TEOCO Corp.
Company type Privately held company
Industry Telecommunications
Genre Software
Founded1994
Founder Atul Jain
Headquarters Fairfax, Virginia,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Atul Jain, Chairman & CEO
Philip Giuntini, Vice Chairman & President
Avi Goldstein, CFO
Website www.teoco.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

TEOCO is a privately held telecom software vendor based in Fairfax, Virginia, in the United States.

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History

TEOCO was founded in 1995 and is based in Fairfax, Virginia. The company's name is an acronym derived from 'The Employee Owned Company.' It has grown through acquisition, which has enabled it to add new solutions[ buzzword ] to its portfolio, as well as new customers and territories. In October 2009, TA Associates completed a $60 Million minority investment in TEOCO. [1] In 2014 it employed 1,300 people and had revenues of approximately $175 million. [2]

In 2008, Razorsight, a revenue and cost optimization vendor, was ordered to pay TEOCO $4.5 million for theft of TEOCO's intellectual property. [3]

TEOCO was involved in the Iowa Utilities Board and subsequent FCC ruling in Qwest communication's Traffic pumping case. [4] TEOCO, a supplier to Qwest of cost and revenue management solutions[ buzzword ], used its technology to capture and analyze five years of call detail records to help determine damages. [5]

Acquisitions

Products

TEOCO provides invoice business process outsourcing, consultancy, cloud and support services. This includes: a range of analytics solutions[ buzzword ], RAN solutions[ buzzword ] to address planning and configuration, optimisation and analytics, and service assurance solutions[ buzzword ] covering performance, fault and service management.

In February 2020, TEOCO announced the latest version of its service assurance platform called HELIX 11. [12]

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References

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  2. "Bootstrapping a $175 million Business With Services, Teoco CEO Atul Jain". SRAMANAMITRA. 19 October 2014.
  3. "Razorsight Steals From TEOCO Pays $45m". Commsrisk. 22 May 2008.
  4. "FCC Daily Releases".
  5. "Pumpers in Iowa Lose Big".
  6. "TEOCO Acquires Vero Systems". Business Wire Press Release. 1 October 2008.
  7. "TEOCO buys TTI". Globes. 9 June 2010.
  8. "TEOCO Buys Up Aircom". Telecoms.com. 21 November 2013.
  9. "TEOCO buys a slice of Cetecom, Bolsters IOT Strategy". Light Reading. LightReading. 11 July 2017.
  10. "TEOCO Buys PreClarity to Enhance Analytics Offering". CommsRisk. 21 February 2017.
  11. "TEOCO Acquires QoE Measurement Firm Ciqual". The Fast Mode.
  12. "Service assurance platform updated for speed, built-in analytics, lower infrastructure costs, and better visualisation". Vanilla Plus. 17 February 2020.