Press Coverage

Carol Wilson, Light Reading/Broadband World News – As a soup-to-nuts billing and operations support system vendor for broadband service providers, GLDS is quite accustomed to integration challenges, not only for new customers but for its legacy businesses as well.

“We are in a perpetual state of development,” admits Garrick Russell, president of GLDS, more formally known as Great Lakes Data Systems Inc. “Our customers bring new technologies to us all the time, in fact, they often will introduce a whole new way of doing something. We have written eight new interfaces over the last 12 months.” More

Telecomasia.net – GLDS is leveraging the AXOS common service model and standards based interfaces to achieve an “integrate once, deploy often” business transformation, according to Calix.

AXOS promises to remove the limitations of recurring OSS/BSS integration costs by allowing service providers to integrate AXOS without the burden of massive custom IT and development costs. More

BTR (Broadband Technology Report) – Back office vendor GLDS is using Calix’ (NYSE:CALX) AXOS common service data models and open APIs to achieve “integrate once, deploy often” OSS/BSS integration. The system is intended to support any PON and any PHY. More

Broadband Communities Wires – Customer management and billing solutions provider GLDS is leveraging the Calix AXOS common service model and standards-based interfaces to achieve a revolutionary “integrate once, deploy often” business transformation. AXOS, the only true SDA, removes the shackles of recurring OSS/BSS integration costs by allowing service providers to integrate AXOS without the burden of massive custom IT and development costs. Once tested and integrated using the Calix AXOS set of open APIs and common service data models, Calix customers will be able to rapidly adopt new AXOS systems supporting any PON and any PHY, well ahead of their competition. More

Adam McDonald, Belleville News Democrat – The Highland City Council on Monday approved a new landline phone service agreement between Highland Communication Services (HCS) and Momentum Telecom.

The new agreement will begin in May 2017, at which time the city will end its current partnership with Big River Communication Services for phone services. More

Broadband Communities – GLDS, a provider of customer management and billing solutions for small- to medium-sized broadband service providers, announced ten new operators to its BroadHub customer management and billing system, including operators in: More

Laura Hamilton, CED Magazine — In more National Cable Television Cooperative news, GLDS has certified the NCTC integration effort that connects its VU-IT! powered by TiVo platform to GLDS BroadHub billing and customer management system. More

Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News — Evolution Digital said it has reached a deal with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) to distribute its eVUE-TV IP video-on-demand service to the NCTC’s membership of independent operators. More

Laura Freeman, Hudson Hub-Times – Hudson — The speed of implementation is almost as fast as the speed of fiber as team members reported the progress of the city’s newest utility, Velocity Broadband.

“Hudson has the attention of Northeast Ohio,” said City Manager Jane Howington. “We’ve made a name for ourselves [implementing broadband] and a lot of communities are watching us, including Dublin.” More

Laura Freeman, Hudson Hub-Times – Velocity Broadband, the city’s Internet utility, is moving faster than expected, and city officials asked for Council to approve two resolutions Oct. 6 to meet the increasing demand.

“It’s moving faster than we thought,” said City Manager Jane Howington. “Demand has been much greater than we thought.”

Council members unanimously approved a resolution for a contract with Great Lakes Data Systems for the purchase and implementation of broadband management software More