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“Managed services are one of the areas where CSPs still hold sway because they are able to provide the diversity of voice, date, video, collaboration, etc and geographical coverage that the niche players can’t. As such, this is a very important revenue source to CSPs where their old cash-cows (eg voice, ISDN, etc) are drying […]
Ericsson acquires majority stake in enterprise IT cloud company Apcera. Ericsson announced it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Apcera, a U.S.-based enterprise services company and creator of the next-generation platform as-a-service (PaaS) called Continuum(TM) which works across cloud, on premise and hybrid environments. In addition, Ericsson commits to significant funding toward development […]
Cisco has announced intent to acquire two organisations: Metacloud: deploys and operates private clouds for global organizations with a unique OpenStack-as-a-Service model that delivers and remotely operates production-ready private clouds in a customer’s data center. Metacloud’s OpenStack-based cloud platform will accelerate Cisco’s strategy to build the world’s largest global Intercloud, a network of clouds, together with […]
Here’s a little cheat-sheet for NFV (Network Function Virtualisation) if you’re suffering DBA (Death By Acronym). I hope you find it useful. The right-most columns refer to the NFV document that each acronym was sourced from, whereby the following links take you to those documents: NFV-001 and NFV-MAN001. Acronym Description NFV-002 NFV-MAN001 ADC Application Delivery […]
“NFV is really three pieces; the virtual network functions (VNFs) deployed to create service features, the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) that serves as the platform for hosting/connection of the VNFs, and the management/orchestration (MANO) functions that do the deployment and management. The goal of all of this is to create a framework for deploying service logic […]
“To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.” Edward de Bono. Regular readers will have seen my regular references to valuable tripods in the OSS world. They are the few who are able to make valuable connections across the following three domains: […]
Huawei and Infosys Announce Global Partnership to Offer Cloud, Big Data and Communication Solutions. Huawei and Infosys announced a global partnership to jointly offer enterprise customers with cloud, big data and communication solutions. The alliance brings together the Huawei’s expertise in information communication technology, particularly cloud infrastructure and Infosys’ global IT service expertise. Collaborating to […]
Telefónica Selects Huawei as its Partner for Operations Support System (OSS) Solution. Huawei announced Telefónica has chosen Huawei and its end to end Performance Management Solution to manage its Latin-American networks. Telefonica chose Huawei’s OSS Solution – which became commercially available in June 2014 – as part of its OSS simplification strategy in Performance Management. […]
“I’ll need to know your requirements before I start to design the software.” Alice in this Dilbert comic. The Dilbert comic shown in the link above probably explains why many developers don’t want to get outside their fishbowl (reference to a recent blog entitled “Who Discovered Water?“) 🙂 Maybe this page will help you capture […]
Redknee Signs $8 Million Dollars of Orders with Operator in the Americas. Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that a leading communications service provider (CSP) in the Americas region, has signed orders worth more than $8 million dollars. These new service agreements will enable the CSP to launch innovative data services and increase its competitive position in […]
“The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.” Auguste Comte. Starting with the network layer, each step up the management hierarchy gives a shallower representation of device data, but a broader view of device connectivity. Or as described in an earlier post entitled […]
VIVO Signs Major Expansion of Billing Managed Services Agreement with NetCracker. NetCracker Technology announced that VIVO has agreed to a major expansion of its billing managed services relationship. Under this agreement, VIVO will replace and consolidate a legacy billing system responsible for its fixed-line data services for enterprises with its existing NetCracker billing managed service, […]
“One of the most important skills I have found in leaders and candidates is what is often called “learning agility.” Learning Agility, a term coined by psychologists, simply describes your ability to rapidly learn new things.” Josh Bersin, here. Fig 1: Oxford Economics – SAP 2014 Talent Research Do you think the stat in the […]
Brocade Acquires Vistapointe Visibility and Analytics Solutions for Mobile Network Operators. Brocade announced that it has acquired the network visibility and analytics technology assets in an all cash transaction from privately held Vistapointe, which has offices in the US, Ireland, and India. The Vistapointe technologies are software-based, carrier-grade network visibility and analytics solutions for mobile […]
“The latest innovation with far-reaching implications for system performance is something called “software in silicon.” The concept is exactly as it sounds—putting software right into the chip for better, even faster performance.” John Soat on Forbes.com. As anyone who has worked with an OSS that has a large database can attest, OSS performance can be […]
“We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t a fish.” Marshall McLuhan. If you’re completely immersed in your environment and you don’t push beyond its boundaries, it tends to become invisible, just as water is to a fish. And if it’s invisible, there is no sense of a need to improve that […]
“The bathtub curve is widely used in reliability engineering. It describes a particular form of the hazard function which comprises three parts: – The first part is a decreasing failure rate, known as early failures. – The second part is a constant failure rate, known as random failures. – The third part is an increasing […]
Ericsson acquires Fabrix, for cloud video transformation. Ericsson announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Fabrix Systems, a leading provider of cloud storage, computing and network delivery for video applications that today power some of the most advanced cable and telecom cloud DVR deployments. Fabrix Systems further extends Ericsson’s leading TV and media […]
“Real confidence comes not from talking all you can, but from giving the best you can.” Milana May. Who are the best OSS operators in your organisation? How do you know they’re the best? Is your confidence in them derived by what they say? Or does your OSS produce the statistics that prove they’re the […]
“Synthetic monitoring (also known as active monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a web browser emulation or scripted recordings of web transactions. Behavioral scripts (or paths) are created to simulate an action or path that a customer or end-user would take on a site. Those paths are then continuously monitored at specified intervals […]
