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“Competence: If you build it, they will come.” John C Maxwell. Interesting concept that. There’s another saying… “Know you, like you, trust you.” [actually it’s, “All things being equal, people will do business with — and refer business to— those people they know, like and trust,” by Bob Burg, but I simplify it]. You may […]
Enghouse Systems Acquires NetBoss Technologies. Enghouse Systems Limited announced it has acquired the assets of NetBoss Technologies, Inc. for a purchase price of approximately CDN $9.3 million, subject to certain price adjustments. Headquartered in Sebastian, Florida, NetBoss provides an integrated service assurance platform encompassing fault and performance management, service correlation and customer analytics. Built on […]
Microsoft and Facebook to build an innovative new subsea cable across the Atlantic Ocean. Microsoft and Facebook announced an agreement to build a new, state-of-the-art subsea cable across the Atlantic. The new “MAREA” cable will help meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services for Microsoft, Facebook and their […]
Comptel has received a significant order from Qatari customer. Comptel has received a significant order from Qatari customer belonging to global operator group for FlowOne Fulfillment licenses and related services. The deal is a continuation and expansion of technology collaboration between the companies. The value of the deal is approximately 1.8 million euros.
Redknee Wins a Multi-Year Services Contract with Ukrainian Mobile Operator lifecell Redknee Solutions Inc. announced the signing of a new multi-year services agreement with lifecell, one of the largest operators in Ukraine and part of the Turkcell Group. The contract strengthens Redknee’s partnership with lifecell, allowing the operator to leverage Redknee’s monetization and subscriber management […]
The jungle drums continue to beat – does OSS have a future? I keep hearing people discussing its imminent demise. OSS can have many issues and the term OSS possibly doesn’t have the greatest name in all circles because of these issues. But I can’t go past the fact that even if the term OSS, […]
There’s a constant dilemma underway for those pondering OSS: Do we try to gather every conceivable piece of data that we can and put up with the costs, time and effort to do so Or do we keep just the Minimum Viable Data (MVD), minimising curation, but missing out on the details that might drive […]
“For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That’s the Law of Significance.” John C Maxwell. In the past, national telcos have been able to achieve greatness alone […]
du selects Ericsson as IT managed services partner. Ericsson and du, a telecommunications operator based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, have agreed a new long-term partnership in which Ericsson will manage and operate du’s IT infrastructure. Ericsson will deploy its global tools, processes and ways of working on an end-to-end basis to improve du’s infrastructure […]
The diagram below shows what is known as The Whale Curve. It shows a graph of the relative profitability of each product in your product mix. From the book, “Waging War on Complexity Costs,” by Steven A Wilson and Andrei Perumal. You might be wondering how a profitability graph could ever peak at over 100%. […]
If you were to define just one trait that every person in OSS must unquestionably have, what would it be? There are so many to choose from: Ability to work in a team – projects tend to be too broad for any one person to specify, design, implement, hand over and maintain Flexibility – it’s […]
I was recently asked how I would go about building up an OSS from scratch. To be honest, I didn’t do a great job of explaining it at the time despite having done it at four tier-1 carriers in the past. Well, not exactly from scratch, as each of these carriers had operated from NMS […]
CENX Awarded Tier 1 EMEA Service Provider Contract. CENX announced the company has been selected by a Tier 1 global communications service provider, with headquarters in southern Europe, to orchestrate and assure on-demand cloud and data center services. CENX’s Exanova Service Intelligence (http://cenx.com/products/exanova-service-intelligence-for-sdn-nfv/) software will enable on-demand deployment and real-time assurance of innovative services for […]
I’ve been lucky enough to have mentored and spoken with quite a few people taking the first few steps on their career journeys. I find it interesting that many new grads focus on getting a role or internship with the big name corporations. You know the ones. At the time, I was shattered upon falling […]
Ooredoo Maldives Selects Alepo’s Fixed Broadband Charging and Customer Care Solution for the Introduction of Next-Generation Fixed Broadband Services. Alepo announced that Ooredoo Maldives has selected Alepo to provide a fixed broadband(FBB) charging and customer care solution for its nationwide fixed broadband network. In the Maldives, Ooredoo has established itself as the market leader in […]
I was just rummaging around here on PAOSS looking for an old post that I wrote giving a high-level description on NETCONF and YANG… only to find that I hadn’t written a a high-level description on NETCONF and YANG yet. I could’ve sworn that I’d written something a year or two ago but apparently I […]
Indonesia’s Biznet Selects Amdocs Software to Support its Business Growth. Amdocs announced that Biznet, Indonesia’s leading fiber-optic operator and provider of Internet and Cable TV services and a new Amdocs customer, has selected Amdocs to provide a comprehensive customer care and billing solution in support of its growth plans and to deliver a premier customer […]
General Communication, Inc. (GCI), the leading communications service provider in Alaska, has selected Netcracker. Netcracker Technology announced that General Communication, Inc. (GCI), the leading communications service provider in Alaska, has selected Netcracker to enable its Polaris Program, which is the transformation of GCI’s customer, revenue and operations management systems. These new capabilities will deliver a […]
“…the program “The Brain,” in which Dr David Eagleman, neuroscientist, NYT bestselling author and Guggenheim Fellow shared a fascinating but little known secret…our brains are specifically designed so that we learn on the job – by doing. Dr Eagleman explained that this is why human babies do not have anywhere near the survival skills possessed […]
OSS regression testing, for those not already familiar with the term, is to re-run old tests to ensure existing functionality in your OSS doesn’t get broken by new code releases. With agile development methodologies becoming more widespread and regular, smaller releases occurring it’s important to have a robust regression testing regime in place. There are […]
