The group's principal activity is to design, develop, manufacture, market and support computer and telecommunication systems and software for multimedia communications. The group operates through three segments: comverse network system enable telecommunications service providers to offer a variety of revenue-generating services; the service enabling signaling software provides service enabling signaling software for wireline, wireless and Internet communications.; the security and business intelligence recording products provide analytic software-based solutions for communications interception, digital video security and surveillance and enterprise business intelligence. The group operates in the United States, Germany, Japan and other European countries. In may 2003, the group acquired smartsight networks inc..