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Ericsson, SAP and Telenor Connexion do M2M

Ericsson, SAP and Telenor Connexion bring benefits of M2M connectivity to new frontiers via partnership. One year into their partnership, Ericsson and SAP have success with Telenor Connexion, enhancing business processes and offering a complete end-to-end solution for large enterprises. Together the three companies are making it simple for enterprises to connect their assets and transform their businesses. The partnership, initiated at Mobile World Congress 2013,…

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24/02/2014 No Comments

Planning is overrated

"Planning is Vastly Overrated - 37signals doesn't do road maps, specs, projections. They have rough ideas internally but these aren't shared externally. Even internally they're not set in stone or written down. Think about what's being done now and maybe what's next. You set expectations too soon and things changed." Jason Fried on here. Them ther's fighting words to many people in the OSS industry, but…

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24/02/2014 No Comments

Ericsson, Huawei and NSN sign OSSii

Ericsson signs agreement for multi-vendor interoperability in OSS Further to the Huawei and NSN agreement, an earlier cooperation agreement with Ericsson has also now been invoked for OSSii. This party (Huawei, NSN, Ericsson)agreement comes on the back of Huawei acquiring Fastwire and indicating an intention to extend their OSS offerings to customers. Ericsson's official statement reads as follows: Ericsson has signed technology license agreements with Nokia Solutions and…

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24/02/2014 No Comments

Momentum

"Momentum - Has its hands in just about everything and is incredibly important. Especially for morale. Most typical projects are really exciting at the beginning and then people tend to lose interest and fade out. Long projects eat at you and you're not even looking to do good stuff you just want to finish things and they don't turn out well. Create a situation where projects…

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23/02/2014 No Comments

Vipnet Croatia to Launch Redknee

Vipnet Croatia to Launch Redknee’s Converged Charging Solution to Advance Growth Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that Vipnet Croatia, a leading EMEA operator and provider of multi-play services, will upgrade to Redknee’s latest version of its real-time charging solution. Redknee’s highly scalable and flexible solution provides Vipnet Croatia with innovative real-time charging and billing capabilities to cost-effectively launch new services faster to the market, and the agility…

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22/02/2014 No Comments

NEC, NetCracker and Cricket Collaborate on SDN

NEC, NetCracker and Cricket Communications to Collaborate in Customized Trial of SDN and Network Virtualization NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced an agreement with Cricket Communications, a pioneer of prepaid wireless services, to trial network virtualization based on SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) technologies. Cricket, NetCracker and NEC will collaborate in the trial to virtualize the Evolved Packet Core network. Network virtualization, with…

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22/02/2014 No Comments

Where to from here for OSS growth?

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States." Ronald Reagan. Speaking with many of the large OSS vendors, it seems that the tier-one Telco and Utility market is still their prime sales and marketing focus, not to mention their product development focus. Interestingly, I wonder whether this is the ideal market to be targeting, for the following…

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22/02/2014 No Comments

HeavyReading on SDN and NFV

"Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) create new management challenges that can't be addressed with current operations support systems (OSSs). SDN and particularly NFV – which is emerging as the larger, "umbrella" concept – are therefore encouraging new companies, with new network management approaches, to enter the market, while causing established players to reconsider their OSS approaches, systems and entire architectures," According to a…

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21/02/2014 No Comments

OSS Brainpower

"The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it." Anonymous. It strikes me that there are a lot of network experts in the world but there aren't very many OSS experts, relatively. As such, OSS is a relatively more immature market in terms of the brainpower that has been dedicated to it over the years. Network virtualisation (eg SDN /…

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20/02/2014 No Comments

Comptel and Tech Mahindra Strategic Partnership

Comptel and Tech Mahindra Agreed on Strategic Partnership for Comptel Fulfillment Solutions. Comptel Corporation and Tech Mahindra have agreed on a strategic fulfillment solutions partnership to deliver aligned value propositions for the ongoing OSS/BSS transformation of Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Comptel will benefit through a strengthened partnership a wider sales channel, increased productivity and secured scalability to deliver large and complex OSS/BSS transformation projects. Tech Mahindra…

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20/02/2014 No Comments

Chunghwa signs Ericsson

Chunghwa boosts customer experience with Ericsson real-time charging and policy control Chunghwa Telecom Co. has selected Ericsson as the consulting and systems integrator of an online charging system (OCS) and policy and charging rules function (PCRF). The new BSS (business support systems) environment supported by Ericsson will include a single integrated online charging and policy control solution that serves existing and LTE prepaid and postpaid subscribers.…

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19/02/2014 No Comments

Huawei buys Fastwire

Chinese networking giant Huawei has acquired Australian company Fastwire, in an attempt to accelerate its capabilities in OSS (operational support systems). Huawei has not formally announced the acquisition, but mentioned it at a London briefing by Leroy Blimegger, its global president of assurance and managed services. He was speaking to press and analysts ahead of a formal announcement at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.…

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19/02/2014 No Comments

Doing the hard things

"So, what have these uber-successful, self-disciplined people figured out that we haven’t? I’ve worked with these people one-on-one, and I can assure you they don’t enjoy self-discipline any more than the rest of us. It’s not that they find it easier to do things that most people don’t like doing; it’s that they think differently about it. Self-discipline is not about chores, or punishment, or doing things…

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19/02/2014 No Comments

OSS Survey Results

"Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause." Arthur Henderson. In a recent survey of OSS operators, respondents were asked two simple questions: What does your OSS really need to do? Why is it important?…

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18/02/2014 No Comments

The problems we’ve got left…

"The problems you've got left... are probably the difficult ones. We'd all like to find discount answers to our problems. Organizations, governments and individuals prefer to find the solution that's guaranteed to work, takes little time and even less effort. Of course, the problems that lend themselves to bargain solutions have already been solved. What we're left with are the problems that will take ridiculous amounts…

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17/02/2014 No Comments

Network virtualisation must….

"Network Virtualisation must.... De-couple Reproduce Automate" Matt Berry in a presentation discussing VMware NSX. The link above takes you on a great presentation of network virtualisation in general, but VMware's specific instantiation, NSX. The flexibility of these types of network changes will similarly impact the flexibility that your OSS will need to achieve. Can your OSS handle this already? At 29:50 into the presentation, it describes…

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16/02/2014 No Comments

Ericsson and Ciena sign strategic agreement

Ericsson and Ciena announce strategic global agreement Ericsson and Ciena announce a strategic global agreement to develop joint transport solutions for IP-optical convergence and service provider software-defined networking (SDN). As part of this agreement, Ericsson offers Ciena's Converged Packet Optical portfolio, including the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and 5400 family. Ericsson will benefit from Ciena's best-in-class optical technology leadership, including its WaveLogic coherent optical processors and global…

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15/02/2014 No Comments

eTOM process updates

"I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era." Michael Jordan. Well, it's been a long time coming, but I've finally updated the OSS process map page to show more detail about eTOM and addendum GB921-E, which refers to customer-centric, end-to-end process flows.

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15/02/2014 No Comments

Single customer view-point

“Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.” Marilyn Suttle. The customer is the single most important component of a CSP and customer support will be the next competitive battleground (if it wasn't already). But are there any B/OSS that give a CSP's call centre operators a singular customer-by-customer view across all aspects of their experience…

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15/02/2014 No Comments

Huawei and NSN OSS agreement

Huawei and Nokia Solutions and Networks Sign Bi-lateral Agreement for Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative Huawei announced the signing of cross-license agreement for an Operations Support System Interoperability Initiative (OSSii) along with Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN). The OSSii aims to simplify interoperability between OSS systems in a multi-vendor environment. OSSii will provide easy access to interfaces that earlier were subject to restricted use, and will…

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14/02/2014 No Comments

Business metrics

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein (possibly). The B/OSS suite means a lot of things to a lot of people in a CSP’s organisation. If you are an executive at a CSP or were to put yourself at the terminal of the C-suite for a day, what are the metrics that are going to be…

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14/02/2014 No Comments