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July 31, 2012 by Amanda Ciccatelli | Great Lakes Data Systems (GLDS) has been operating in the crowded and ever shrinking small-to-medium broadband provider space, but a recent announcement makes it clear that GLDS has no plans for obscurity. GLDS’ flagship offering, WinCAP, will be powering the 2012 NBC Summer Olympics for a number of operators by allowing TV Everywhere access for all content providers from a single self-care portal. The single point of contact minimizes the hassle of certification on the part of content providers, allowing small-medium sized broadband providers to offer content typically reserved for larger players in the space. More

July 27, 2012, AdvancedTV Staff | Great Lakes Data Systems, a provider of billing, subscriber management and provisioning systems for small-to-medium global broadband providers, has launched the industry’s only fully integrated, real-time content authorisation service for TV Everywhere, WinCAP. WinCAP offers broadband service providers and their customers the convenience of centralised multi-screen account and parental control management, integrated with GLDS’ existing web-based self-care portal CableAnytime. Additionally, WinCAP will power the 2012 NBC Summer Olympics authorisation for several operators, including BELD Broadband, Cable Systems of Nevada, San Bruno Cable, Spencer Municipal Utilities and others. More

07/23/2012 by Brian Santo | Great Lakes Data Systems has introduced an authorization service for TV Everywhere that it calls WinCAP.

WinCAP offers broadband service providers and their customers centralized multi-screen account and parental control management, with real-time authorization.

The system is integrated with GLDS’ Web-based self-care portal CableAnytime, so subscribers are able to manage their TV Everywhere access using the same credentials they use to view and pay their bill, order PPV, view VoIP usage and upgrade services. More

Vendor’s WinCAP Will Power NBC Olympics Authorization for Several Operators

7/23/12 By Todd Spangler | Great Lakes Data Systems has launched a “TV Everywhere” extensions to its billing and subscriber management system for smaller operators.

The WinCAP solution is an extension of GLDS’s Web-based self-care portal CableAnytime and the WinCable billing platform. Several operators will use WinCAP to handle authentication for NBCUniversal’s 2012 Summer Olympic Games online video, including BELD Broadband, Cable Systems of Nevada, San Bruno Cable and Spencer Municipal Utilities.

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July 23, 2012, Light Reading Staff | Great Lakes Data Systems, Inc. (GLDS), the leading provider of billing, subscriber management and provisioning systems for small-to-medium global broadband providers, today launched the industry’s only fully integrated, real-time content authorization service for TV Everywhere, WinCAP^TM. WinCAP offers broadband service providers and their customers the convenience of centralized multi-screen account and parental control management, integrated with GLDS’ existing web-based self-care portal CableAnytimeTM. Additionally, WinCAP will power the 2012 NBC Summer Olympics authorization for several operators, including BELD Broadband, Cable Systems of Nevada, San Bruno Cable, Spencer Municipal Utilities and others. More

July 23, 2012 By Craig Galbraith | Calling it the industry’s only fully integrated, real-time content authorization service for TV Everywhere, Great Lakes Data Systems (GLDS) has launched WinCAP, which the company says offers broadband service providers and their customers centralized, multiscreen account and parental-control management, integrated with GLDS’ Web-based, self-care portal – CableAnytime. More

July 23, 2012 by BTR Staff | At the Independent Show in Florida, Great Lakes Data Systems is demonstrating an integrated, real-time content authorization service for TV Everywhere, WinCAP. It’s designed to provide centralized multi-screen account and parental control management, integrated with GLDS’ existing web-based self-care portal CableAnytime. Additionally, WinCAP will power the 2012 NBC Summer Olympics authorization for several operators, including BELD Broadband, Cable Systems of Nevada, San Bruno Cable, Spencer Municipal Utilities and others. More

7/5/12 by Brian Santo | Service providers are taking advantage of consumer technology to make their technicians more effective.

Wireless broadband, social networking, mobile apps, cloud computing, handheld devices – they’re not just for consumers anymore. The exact same trends roiling the consumer market are having a profound effect on the way communications service providers (CSPs) conduct their business.

While executives and managers at CSPs are certainly making use of mobile technology, the area of their business most affected is customer service. Installers and technicians of all sorts are being equipped with new tools they happen to be already familiar with because they’ve been using them as consumers.

“Devices, the cloud and mobile Internet: These are major forces … that are driving the thinking and the choices our customers are making in the field and the back office,” said Yuval Brisker, CEO of TOA Technologies, a company that provides mobile workforce management systems.

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5/16/12 by Broadband Technology Report Staff  | Great Lakes Data Systems plans to demonstrate its cloud-based billing, subscriber management and provisioning system, as well as mobile workforce technologies, at the NCTA Cable Show in Boston.

The company’s WinCable in the Cloud is a cloud-based version of its billing, subscriber management and provisioning system. It’s designed to let operators manage these functions virtually via the Internet, without any hardware or infrastructure investment. More