Pate Consultants Group is committed to delivering superior quality development engineering and integration solutions that meet our customers’ strategic business objectives at a fair price. Many members of our staff have previously held key positions at major data communications and telecommunications companies. They know the business and understand the customers’ development processes, tools, and systems.

More importantly, our Business Objectives methodology goes beyond a pure "quickly, come on ... let’s code and build" approach. It takes a look at end-users objectives and goals. We talk to people, who will be using the products we develop, to uncover their business issues and look at how technology can help them meet their objectives.

Pate works with product vendors and with service providers to identify customer requirements, evaluate new product concepts and to define product features.

Some of the reasons why clients choose to utilize our services in this area include: our unbiased and independent point of view, ability to obtain opinions that the customer may not want to express to a vendor or service provider, and understanding of the communications marketplace and customer needs.

Pate Consultants Group has designed, integrated and developed software / hardware solutions for major communications products vendors and service providers.

We have developed Data and Telecommunications solutions in the following areas:

	Integrated Network Management Systems
	Traffic Data Collection, Data Repository / Warehousing and Capacity Planning
	AIN Software and Gateways for VoIP and Switched Networks
	Voice, Data and Video over IP: Distributed H323 and T120
	Operations Support Systems (OSS) For Data and Voice: Provisioning, Maintenance, Planning, Signaling, Testing and Capacity Management
	Network Elements and Mediation Devices
	Transmission Network Planning Systems
	Porting: UNIX to UNIX, UNIX to NT, and Database Migrations
	ATM, Frame Relay, SONET

Pate has experience with the following technologies:

	Platforms: HP, Sun, IBM, Client-Server, NCR, Mainframe
	OS/Languages: UNIX, Solaris, Perl, Windows, NT, Java, HTML, C, C++, VB, VC++, CICS, IMS and RPG/400
	RDBMs: Oracle, Informix, Sybase, SQL, and DB2
	MiddleWare/Tools: CORBA, Tuxedo, JDBC, ODBC
	Telecomm/Networking: OSS, TCP/IP, TDMS, SNMP, CMIP, ATM, SONET, Frame Relay, TMN Q3, Wireless, Routers, Hubs, HP OpenView, Tivoli, Micromuse
	Routing protocols: IGRP, EIGRP, IGMP, DVMP, CIDR, BGP-4, OSPF, PNNI, MPOA, RSVP, MPLS, RIP, and RIPv2.

Pate’s consultants are a highly skilled, dedicated, and experienced group of Data Communications and Telecommunications professionals.

Pate’s technical team offers our clients the following credentials: graduate degrees in computer science, telecommunications and engineering, published papers on network-related technical topics, certification and ongoing training from the leading technology vendors, and contributions to major technology conferences and forums.

Additionally, our team contributes not only technical depth but also a broad base of experience gained from multiple client engagements. Having witnessed and/or been involved with a variety of solutions to most data and telecommunications problems gives us the ability to know what works and what does not. It also usually enables us to offer a number of viable solutions in response to client specific requirements.