Neustar
NeuStar is a telecommunication service provider company from Virginia, USA; the company also provides surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services to the global communications and internet industry. NeuStar was founded in 1996 under Lockheed Martin CIS and changed its name to NeuStar in 1999. [1]
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Telecommunication |
| Founded: | 1996 |
| Headquarters: | Corporate Headquarters 46000 Center Oak Plaza |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 966 (2009) |
| Revenue: | 4,294,000 (2009) |
| Website: | http://www.neustar.biz |
| Key People | |
| Lisa Hook, CEO Eric Brown, Director | |
NeuStar acts as both a traditional provider of communications i.e. local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless service providers, long distance carriers, etc.; and communication service technology providers i.e. VoIP services, wireless data, and law enforcement compliance. Their clearinghouse services enable customers to manage activities like recording exchanges, subscriber growth, network optimization, content management, and inter-network call origination and termination[2]
History
- In 1995 two technology companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation merged to form Lockheed Martin Corporation. [3] Lockheed Martin’s Communication Industry Services (CIS) division was transferred to NeuStar Inc. in November, 1999. [4]
- In 1996, NeuStar, then the Communications Industry Services unit within Lockheed Martin, won its original contract to provide local number portability services to select regions throughout North America.[5] In 1997, it won the contract to become the official North American Numbering Plan (NANP) administrator.[6]
- In 1998, Neustar tested number pooling at the state-wide level.[7]
- In 1999, NeuStar and Australia based MelbourneIT formed a new joint venture, NeuLevel to promote .biz internet domain name services under an ICANN bid.[8] The joint venture, which has since been dissolved, was awarded the contract to administer the name registry for the .biz domain. Today, Neustar is the sole registry operator for .biz.
- In 2003, NeuStar Acquired Assets Of NightFire Software, a standards-based service manager for the communications industry.[9]
- In October, 2005, NeuStar announced the first major number portability initiative outside the United States as number portability was launched in Taiwan.[10]
- In 2005, NeuStar became a public company on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the ticker symbol "NSR".[11].
- NeuStar acquired Foretec Seminar which was later to be known as Neustar Secretariat Services in 2005. [12] NeuStar also Acquired Fiducianet, which provides law enforcement compliance and fraud management services to carriers, in the same year; and, thus, became the single largest provider of services involving subpoenas, court orders and law enforcement agency requests under electronic surveillance laws including CALEA, the USA Patriot Act, and the Homeland Security Act of 2002.[13]
- In April, 2006, NeuStar bought UltraDNS, a global and local DNS solution for about $61.8 million in cash.[14] In November, 2006, NeuStar acquired Uk based IM service provider Followap for $139 M.[15].
- In September 2007, NeuStar and ClearTech, a telecommunication service provider company, jointly won contract for number portability in Brazil.[16]
- In September 2008, NueStar and GSM Association (GSMA) signed an agreement to offer Root Domain Name System (DNS) services to more than 680 global GSM mobile operators. [17]
- In January 2008, NeuStar bought WebMetrics , a San Diego based company to provide SaaS and website testing and monitoring services, for $12.5 million. [18]
- NeuStar announced amendment of its telephone number portability contracts in January 2009. [19]
Products and Services
According to its official website, the services NeuStar provides are divided into career services and Enterprise Services.
Career Services includes Numbering Services such as, NPAC services, international LNP (Taiwan and Brazil), number administration, legal compliance services, order management services and IP Services such as GSMA pathfinder, converged messaging, multimedia interconnect services and other Carrier Services.
Enterprise Services includes internet infrastructure services such UltraDNS services, Webmetrics monitoring and load testing, Quova Geolocation services etc. and registry services such as domain name registry services, U.S.common short Codes etc.
Awards
In 2009, NeuStar ranked number 17 in on Forbes Magazine’s annual "25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies" list. [20]
In 2007, NeuStar won "Public Company CFO Of The Year" Award in 11th Annual Greater Washington Technology CFO Awards. [21]
In 2006, NeuStar won "Frost & Sullivan: North American Technology Innovation" Award [22], Internet Telephony Magazine's "Top 100 Voices of IP Communications" award [23], ranked #37 on Deloitte "Technology Fast 50" Awards (Virginia) [24], Northern Virginia Technology Council "Hot Ticket" Awards [25], Northern Virginia Technology Council's 2006 Greater Washington Technology "CFO of the Year" Awards, ranked #28 on BusinessWeek "Hot Growth Companies 2006" [26] etc.
In December 2005, NeuStar won "IPO of the year award" by the IPO research committee at Renaissance Capital. [27]
References
- ↑ Yahoo! Finance
- ↑ ICANNWIKI.org
- ↑ Lockheed Martin.com
- ↑ NPAC website
- ↑ Mobile Next Big Thing.biz
- ↑ World Telephoning Numbering Guide
- ↑ NeuStar
- ↑ PRnewsWire
- ↑ TMCNet
- ↑ corporate-ir.net
- ↑ Connected Planet
- ↑ corporate-ir.net
- ↑ Von.com
- ↑ Light Reading.com
- ↑ Pulse 2.com
- ↑ TMCnet.com
- ↑ PRNewsWire
- ↑ CircleID
- ↑ Red Orbit
- ↑ TMCNet.com
- ↑ PRNewsIre.com
- ↑ Frost.com
- ↑ The Free Library
- ↑ PRNewsWire
- ↑ Washington Business Journals
- ↑ Washington Business Week.com
- ↑ Renaissance Capital