Swedish Telecom Company Selects Proact

Proact IT Sweden AB delivered a solution to
a Sweden telecom, enabling the company to comply with the Data Retention
Directive concerning call detail records (CDR).

The agreement also includes
ongoing and local support from Proact.

On May 1st 2012, the Data Retention
Directive came into effect in Sweden. According to the directive, telecom
carriers must store client telephone and internet communication records for six
months. The carriers should also, when requested, be able to produce reports
from their stored data for crime prevention purposes.

"Log
information is generally spread out in several different systems and will often
consist of different formats as well, making the task of extracting relevant
information extremely time consuming, often requiring manual labor. Proact’s
solution enables all log information to be stored centrally in a system with ‘ready
to go’ functionality for collecting data from different switches, systems and
data bases. Information is managed and compressed in a very effective way,
facilitating simple extraction of information from the system," says Lena
Eskilsson, regional manager, Proact Sweden.

The telecom carriers store millions of
connections every day which places certain requirements on this kind of system.
In order to comply with the Data Retention Directive the information needs to
be stored in an intelligent way, making it easy to access and search in order
for the company to produce required reports. With Proact’s solution, the relevant
information is stored in a column based database which facilitates the search
process and also the production of reports for the Swedish carrier.

"The
solution we have provided is built on well tested technology. It has already
been implemented for a number of the largest carriers in Europe and the US. By
compression and effective management of data, the solution consumes very little
storage space, and is also more manageable with a smart and simple storage
platform," says Eskilsson.