CTIA: VeriSign intercepts carriers' pass on mandated snooping

NEW ORLEANS--VeriSign introduced and demonstrated its NetDiscovery service bureau solution for enabling lawful interception of packet data on GPRS and CDMA 1x wireless networks. The service includes a full security administration bureau that provides records management of legal orders.

The service bureau approach takes the manpower requirement for fulfilling surveillance orders away from the operators and saves them from building a separate infrastructure or additional facilities to maintain non-intrusive access to their networks.

“In the wireless packet network there hasn’t been a cost effective solution for this. Self-deployment is an expensive proposition,” said Raj Puri, vice president of NetDiscovery Services for VeriSign’s telecommunications services.

Puri also said the NetDiscovery service bureau manages ongoing compliance issues for carriers. NetDiscovery is based on XML standards, which the company is actively promoting through its leadership role at the Global Lawful Intercept Industry Forum.

VeriSign also announced new capabilities for its wireless Calling Name (CNAM) service. It now gives carriers the ability to deliver names from all national CNAM databases to mobile handsets, putting wireless CNAM on par with that of the wireline network.

VeriSign also teamed with Telespree, a developer of intelligent acquisition and activation solutions, to create a wireless self-service acquisition service. The service will automate account, device and plan set-up using a customer's own device.