IVR Technologies, a software developer of IP enhanced services and real-time billing solutions, has announced availability of Talking SIP (News - Alert) Cirrus, a software-as-a-service solution, or "SaaS."

This offering leverages the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also called the Amazon EC2, providing in-demand enhanced services, media processing and real-time billing to next-generation service providers around the world, according company officials.

Talking SIP Cirrus removes the capital and IT intensive aspects of running a next-generation network. Thanks to this, service provider can launch timely and competitive services at reduced cost and overhead as a direct result of the SaaS (News - Alert) model.

Company officials said Talking SIP Cirrus eliminates the need for hardware, operating systems, or database software. It's built on Talking SIP platform, and resides in the Internet cloud. Company officials said that turn-up is almost immediate and access and control are always at the finger tips.

Since Talking SIP Cirrus is a service-ready offering, it provides users time-to-market advantage that lets them immediately deploy a running business to attract and service subscribers, said company officials.

Moreover, Talking SIP Cirrus is a managed service that is operated by a skilled team of developers and senior-level technicians, ensuring that network is always operational and running on the latest service packs and releases embodying the latest feature set and functionality.

Additionally, Talking SIP Cirrus includes a rich and graphical management interface that is accessible via a browser for secure and responsive access to the network. Company officials said that the management interface provides complete account management access for such operations as automated account generation, billing plans management, IVR menu management, and find me/follow me scheduling.

"In today's highly competitive market with extremely scarce capital, Talking SIP Cirrus allows challenged service-providers with an opportunity to efficiently deploy a next-generation platform with very little capital and risk that includes a time-to-market advantage as well as a migration path to a facilities-based solution once a business or market has proven itself." said Randall Walrond, vice president for product management at IVR Technologies (News - Alert).

Earlier in April, IVR announced the availability of Talking SIP 3.7. This fully-integrated application, media and billing server is designed to provider class 4/5 switching, registration, location services and enhanced services to next-generation service providers throughout the global marketplace.