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Finland’s Elisa Expands and Extends Amdocs’ Managed Services Contract Amdocs and Elisa, Finland’s leading provider of wireless, wireline, broadband Internet and cable TV services have signed an agreement expanding and extending the existing managed services relationship between the companies through 2018. Under the new agreement, referenced in Elisa’s recent fiscal 2013 third-quarter results report, Amdocs […]
Amdocs Has Signed a Definitive Agreement to Acquire Celcite, a Leading Provider of Network Management and Self Optimizing Network (SON) Solutions Amdocs announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Celcite Management Solutions LLC for approximately $129 million in cash, subject to customary closing conditions. Additional consideration may […]
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Albert Einstein. The OTT-T (Over The Top Threat) is ringing “destructive innovation” alarm bells in the ears of most global telcos. The OTT (Over The Top) play threatens to take the cream off the top, relegating CSPs to commoditised bandwidth providers whilst remaining capital intensive (it’s […]
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” Sun Tzu. This triumvirate of tools (OSS, BSS and GIS) can provide a CSP with incredibly powerful and flexible information. There are a few considerations to take into account: These tools are often operated by different business units and have different objectives for the data sets Connecting two entities requires […]
“Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.” Mary Astor. Another cracker of a question from the same subscriber from the Philippines – “should OSS be managed under IT or Networks?” This is an age-old question that has caused many fights over the years. It’s a really tough question to answer because it’s dependent on […]
“Trust is built with consistency.” Lincoln Chafee. A subscriber to this blog, a talented and insightful Engineer from the Philippines, asked the following question, “how to sync network information and oss inventory, how to sustain the data integrity through KPIs?” This is a brilliant question and highly complex to resolve due to the nuances of live […]
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” Ken Blanchard. Data synchronisation comes at an OSS from so many different angles. If any of them get out of control it can quickly send your OSS into a death spiral. By that, I mean that an OSS is only as good as the data it stores. If the […]
“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.” Swedish proverb. Today’s post is minimalistic. Please take a few moments to consider what the proverb means to you in relation to OSS projects. To me it covers the same […]
“A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.” Thomas Carlyle. In recent times, I’ve spoken of the benefits of using analytics on OSS data. Afterall, OSS exist to store data and make some connections between data. However, there are many other valuable connections just waiting to be made […]
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci. Let me portray a scenario for you. I’d love to get your predictions on the likely outcome. A massive tier-one Telco was running an OSS vendor selection process a few years ago. The Telco ran an initial Proof-of-Concept session, giving various vendors the opportunity to show their […]
Clarity Announces Restructuring of Australian Operations Clarity OSS Limited announced that as part of its previously announced strategic review the Clarity Board has resolved to restructure its Australian operations to substantially reduce costs and thereby increase the potential profitability of the Company. It is proposed to implement the restructure by voluntarily winding up its Australian […]
“Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning..” Donald Rumsfeld. When it comes to collecting data for making strategic decisions, your OSS and BSS hold the keys to the advanced planning vault: Number of customers and recent change Customer behaviours (at a macro level) Service usage trends Segments and share of market Service levels […]
“The more you know, the further you go.” 50 cent on the Pranksta Rap episode of The Simpsons. A family member was watching The Simpsons recently and the aforementioned quote came up. Simple and profound. Not sure if it’s attributable to 50 cent or a screenwriter for the show though. As we know, an organisation’s […]
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” Lewis Carol. There is an almost you-niversal truth in business. It’s not about you. One of my young mentees was surprised during a recent discussion about a job interview he was due to have. […]
“Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.” Simon Sinek author of the book, “Start with Why: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action.” In his book, Simon Sinek presents the concept that individuals and organisations that start by asking […]
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde. As discussed yesterday, I have a dream when it comes to system interfaces. Interfaces will be able to be constructed by mere mortals, not only by […]
“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.” Jaron Lanier. In most cases, OSS projects fail because of complexity. Complexity in any number of layers – service complexity, network complexity, political complexity, operational complexity, etc. Or perhaps a combination of many. One of […]
“Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) aims to transform the way that network operators architect networks by evolving standard IT virtualisation technology to consolidate many network equipment types onto industry standard high volume servers, switches and storage” ETSI document, “Network Function Virtualisation (NFV); Use Cases” The above document from ETSI describes nine use cases of interest for […]
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Shandong Cable Network taps ericsson to deliver on-demand services to Chinese consumers An increasing number of provincial and municipal level Chinese cable TV operators are transforming their service into a two-way network in order to compete with new IPTV, over-the-top (OTT), online video and other interactive video business models emerging on the Chinese market. To […]
