Reading, September 7, 2007 - VisionOSS, a leading provider of OSS provisioning and managing software for IP telecommunications, today announced the appointment of Korbus Smit as its Head of Engineering.
Prior to joining VisionOSS, Korbus served as Development Director at Intec Telecom Systems PLC, where he grew and managed the Intec engineering team to over 300 staff. During his time at Intec, Kobus was responsible for establishing an offshore professional services capacity for Intec in Bangalore, India.
Prior to Intec, Kobus worked for Sanlan Limited a leading South African financial services group as a Development Manager and various programming roles.
Mike Frayne, VisionOSS CEO said, "Kobus has extensive experience in running small development teams that have grown into much larger ones as the organisations have matured, which is exactly what we are looking for at this stage in our lifecycle".
VisionOSS
VisionOSS is an Independent software vendor, established in June 2003. Based in the UK, but operating in Europe, Asia and North America, VisionOSS has developed an automated provisioning and management solution for large scale, service provider IP Voice. With VisionOSS, service providers are able to virtualize their IP-PBX Clusters, gateways, soft-switches and application server architectures on a massive scale, allowing for far greater return on capital as well as lower operating costs. IP telephony deployments that were previewed as taking months to install can now be delivered in a fraction of the time, with huge associated cost savings and near-immediate ROI.
The VisionOSS technology has been selected by Cisco Systems for their Hosted, Unified CallManager Services architecture, which targets service providers and large scale enterprises. A number of PTTs, CLECs, as well as Outsourcers have selected VisionOSS within their IP Voice architecture.
