Buzzinbees is a privately owned company that develops software and sells it to telecommunication equipment and software vendors. It is based in Seyssinet-Pariset near
Grenoble
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in France. It was founded in 2009 by its current CEO Jean-René Bouvier. Buzzinbees's products are currently active in more than 135 countries worldwide.
In December 2015,
Gemalto
Gemalto was an international digital security company providing software applications, secure personal devices such as smart cards and tokens, and managed services. It was formed in June 2006 by the merger of two companies, Axalto and Gemplus In ...
acquired Buzzinbees for an undisclosed amount. Olivier Piou stated that the acquisition was motivated by Buzzinbees activation solution, especially for machine to machine.
History
Buzzinbees was created by
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
senior executives in October 2009. A strategic licensing agreement
with the IT giant allows Buzzinbees to continue to develop and enhance products that have been deployed for more than 20 years by HP (it is acknowledged that HP started to provide telecommunication operators and equipment providers with carrier grade
signaling
In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. Any quantity that can vary over space or time can be used as a signal to share messages between observers. The ''IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing'' ...
as soon as 1988
).
HP has become one of Buzzinbees's customers, buying signaling platforms as well as other products to embed them into its telecommunication solutions.
In February 2010, Buzzinbees announced its collaboration with PT on a messaging server: Bee-IRON. The Bee-IRON platform is a flagship product from Buzzinbees which can deliver and route 2,500
SMS
Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text ...
per second in a single node. It complements PT's MicroTCA server.
In May 2010, Buzzinbees focused its attention on automatic
SIM activation, targeting fast growing markets such as African, Asian and Latin American operators. This effort became visible at the 2012 next generation telecom summit in Nairobi.
Buzzinbees's name was inspired by the highly social communicating
bees.
Indeed, bees do
communicate
Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...
in order to recruit other worker bees to forage in the same area they found flowers. The Buzzinbees logo — pictured left — "sports a hexagonal cell" reminiscent of "honeycombs but also cellular networks" as well as 3 pairs of bee "antennas".
In November 2015, Buzzinbees's CEO created another company, Facts Haven SAS with a new logo. Following the Gemalto acquisition, his
LinkedIn
LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job se ...
profile indicates
that he no longer works for Buzzinbees. However, the Buzzinbees company still exists as a legal entity.
Products
Buzzinbees's portfolio encompasses
network nodes
In telecommunications networks, a node (, ‘knot’) is either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint. The definition of a node depends on the network and protocol layer referred to. A physical network node is an electronic device ...
built atop a comprehensive suite of signaling products providing complete development
platforms based on global telecommunication standards and protocols.
These products work indeed with
SS7 (signaling system #7),
IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) and
LTE (long term evolution) protocols. They augment networks with intelligent functions (
intelligent network
The Intelligent Network (IN) is the standard network architecture specified in the ITU-T Q.1200 series recommendations. It is intended for fixed as well as Global System for Mobile Communications, mobile telecommunication, telecom networks. It al ...
).
Buzzinbees's distribution channel is very specific: it sells to independent software vendors and equipment providers, as opposed to selling directly to operators.
Since 2011, Buzzinbees openly focused on automatic SIM activation and the nascent
machine to machine Machine to machine (M2M) is direct communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless.
Machine to machine communication can include industrial instrumentation, enabling a sensor or meter to communicate th ...
market, pushing their Bee-SOON (SIM on-off node) product. Following the Gemalto acquisition, it introduced the concept of SIM reactivation
[{{cite web , url=http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/11/03/886048/0/en/Gemalto-pioneers-SIM-Reactivation-solution-to-help-operators-seamlessly-reconnect-with-lapsed-prepaid-subscribers.html , title=Gemalto pioneers SIM reactivation , accessdate=2016-11-03] whereby operators can let users reuse expired
SIM cards instead of purchasing new ones when they wish to re-subscribe to that operator.
References
Software companies of France
Software companies established in 2009
French companies established in 2009