Press Coverage

July 23, 2012, Light Reading Staff | Great Lakes Data Systems, Inc. (GLDS), the leading provider of billing, subscriber management and provisioning systems for small-to-medium global broadband providers, today launched the industry’s only fully integrated, real-time content authorization service for TV Everywhere, WinCAP^TM. WinCAP offers broadband service providers and their customers the convenience of centralized multi-screen account and parental control management, integrated with GLDS’ existing web-based self-care portal CableAnytimeTM. Additionally, WinCAP will power the 2012 NBC Summer Olympics authorization for several operators, including BELD Broadband, Cable Systems of Nevada, San Bruno Cable, Spencer Municipal Utilities and others. More

July 23, 2012 By Craig Galbraith | Calling it the industry’s only fully integrated, real-time content authorization service for TV Everywhere, Great Lakes Data Systems (GLDS) has launched WinCAP, which the company says offers broadband service providers and their customers centralized, multiscreen account and parental-control management, integrated with GLDS’ Web-based, self-care portal – CableAnytime. More

July 23, 2012 by BTR Staff | At the Independent Show in Florida, Great Lakes Data Systems is demonstrating an integrated, real-time content authorization service for TV Everywhere, WinCAP. It’s designed to provide centralized multi-screen account and parental control management, integrated with GLDS’ existing web-based self-care portal CableAnytime. Additionally, WinCAP will power the 2012 NBC Summer Olympics authorization for several operators, including BELD Broadband, Cable Systems of Nevada, San Bruno Cable, Spencer Municipal Utilities and others. More

7/5/12 by Brian Santo | Service providers are taking advantage of consumer technology to make their technicians more effective.

Wireless broadband, social networking, mobile apps, cloud computing, handheld devices – they’re not just for consumers anymore. The exact same trends roiling the consumer market are having a profound effect on the way communications service providers (CSPs) conduct their business.

While executives and managers at CSPs are certainly making use of mobile technology, the area of their business most affected is customer service. Installers and technicians of all sorts are being equipped with new tools they happen to be already familiar with because they’ve been using them as consumers.

“Devices, the cloud and mobile Internet: These are major forces … that are driving the thinking and the choices our customers are making in the field and the back office,” said Yuval Brisker, CEO of TOA Technologies, a company that provides mobile workforce management systems.

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5/16/12 by Broadband Technology Report Staff  | Great Lakes Data Systems plans to demonstrate its cloud-based billing, subscriber management and provisioning system, as well as mobile workforce technologies, at the NCTA Cable Show in Boston.

The company’s WinCable in the Cloud is a cloud-based version of its billing, subscriber management and provisioning system. It’s designed to let operators manage these functions virtually via the Internet, without any hardware or infrastructure investment. More

2/15/12 by Broadband Technology Report Staff  |  Great Lakes Data Systems has been named an approved provider for billing, subscriber management and provisioning by the National Cable Television Cooperative.

2/14/12 by BillingWorld Staff  | Great Lakes Data Systems (GLDS) has been named an approved provider for billing, subscriber management and provisioning by the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC).