OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2007. Within the framework of Exhibition-Forum InfoCom-2007 held 24-27 October Russian Post presented new plan in the sphere of public access outlet (PAO) network management.

FSUE Russian Post demonstrated new software complex The center of public access outlet management. It performs interactive control over the mentioned network, gives information on situation, efficiency and profits gained by public access outlets. It also aims to cooperate with the system of mutual payments between the operators of universal service, Russian Post among them.

The center of public access outlet management consists of centralized systems of management, registration and PAO service control.

This system registers all public access outlets given the structural units of Russian Post. It enables to form tariff plans for main and extra services in interactive regime. Main services include Internet access, printing, work with external information carrier and so on). Work with office applications, on-line dictionaries, different information systems are the extra ones. Tariff rates can be ordered both for group, different PAO and on joint basis.

The system provides other opportunities such as reports, diagnostics of PAO, security monitoring and other.

Control and registration system is represented by special software application and hardware tools for automated services granted at PAO. It enables to pay both universal communication card and in cash by counter operation terminals. The system interacts with the management system and gets the list of services and tariffs for each PAO, data concerning prohibited and non-prohibited cards to pay. Statistics data on work with PAO with specification data on each service attached is sent back.

Software complex The center of public access outlet management of FSUE Russian Post has already been tested in Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Moscow and Tula regions. Currently, Russian Post is eager to apply it within Russia. The complex is implemented in all PAO of Russian Post after the Federal Communications Agency takes the decision concerning the system of universal communications services.