FREMONT, Calif. -- net.com (NYSE: NWK), a global provider of broadband service creation solutions, announced today it has partnered with Idea Integration to deliver a key solution set for network service providers seeking to maintain a competitive advantage by delivering new, unique services. Idea Integration, a leading e-business solutions integrator, built the interface probe that links Portal Software’s Infranetâ customer management and billing platform to SCREAM’s Open Programming Interface (OPI™) to provide real-time billing for net.com’s SCREAM™ Service Creation Manager™ platforms.

Bert Whyte, president and CEO of net.com commented, “The need for service provider differentiation through value added services is here today as bandwidth has become a commodity, a game no one is winning. We believe that, ultimately, users will drive the network, and have demonstrated that customers can dynamically order or enhance a service through a customized web portal, identify and authenticate the user, enable the network to be dynamically configured to deliver the service, and instantly notify Portal Software’s Infranet for billing purposes.”

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