"Everyone is familiar with a technology that can be useful for the verification of messages in SDN and NFV, but not in the form they'd expect. Bitcoin uses what's called "block chaining" or (as one word) "blockchain" to keep a tamper-proof history of something. One could apply blockchain principles to SDN and NFV interfaces or control elements to keep a log of everything that happened there,…
Read More »Maxis Transforms Service Layer with NetCracker's Comprehensive Resource and Service Management Suite. NetCracker Technology announced that it has successfully delivered its Resource & Inventory Management solution to Maxis Berhad (Maxis), Malaysia’s leading communications service provider. The upgraded modules include the NetCracker Framework, Resource Management & Service Management modules. These capabilities will help Maxis to achieve better network utilization, faster deployment of services and ROI on its…
Read More »"Income follows assets" Daniel Priestley. In OSS-world what are our biggest assets? Apart from your customers, what are your biggest OSS assets? Products? Services? People? Intellectual Property? To put this another way, what is it that underpins your strongest revenue streams? If you're a product vendor then it's probably your products. lf you're an integrator, then it's probably your services / systems. If you're a consultancy…
Read More »AIS Signs Multi-Year Renewal for NetCracker Systems Integration and Professional Services. NetCracker Technology announced that Advanced Info Services (AIS), Thailand’s largest mobile phone operator, has agreed to a multi-year renewal for NetCracker’s Systems Integration and Professional Services. As part of the agreement, NetCracker will continue to provide a range of services, including Support and Maintenance, for the NetCracker Billing and Rating solution that AIS uses to…
Read More »"There is no accountability for results in the business. We are never able to follow up or measure the proper return on projects. Investments are open to so many different factors - it's too difficult to measure and wouldn't be credible so is felt to be a waste of time. For cutting edge/new tech projects we are under so much pressure to get to market ahead…
Read More »"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." Francis of Assisi. What inspires your OSS users/operators? What is it that makes them rave about your product? Is it having a flexible layout? Is it the colours and graphics? Is it the navigation and flow? The number of clicks in which they can achieve an objective? Is it the…
Read More »Bulgaria's Mtel and Amdocs Extend and Expand Multi-Year Managed Services Engagement. Amdocs announced the expansion and extension of its managed services agreement with Mtel through 2021. The new agreement will simplify operations and achieve synergies across lines of business to reduce costs, and improve business and operational performance levels. One of the largest affiliates in the Telekom Austria Group, Mtel is Bulgaria's leading mobile service provider…
Read More »Lightower to Enhance Visibility and Network Utilization by Implementing NetCracker Resource Management Solution. NetCracker Technology announced that Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading provider of custom, high-capacity network services in the United States, has gone live with a substantial upgrade to NetCracker’s Resource Management solution. By using the new solution, Lightower can establish greater visibility into its resources, reducing the time it takes to fulfill orders. Lightower…
Read More »I'm delighted to announce the arrival of PAOSS's latest publication, an eBook entitled, "OSS Masterclasses - Insights from Thought-Leaders in Operational Support Systems (OSS)." You can grab it via the link above or by clicking on the image below-right. SYNOPSIS: In creating content here on PassionateAboutOSS.com, I spend a great deal of time writing about all things OSS - technology, process, projects and beyond. It has…
Read More »"The Value Fabric: A guide to doing business in the digital world begins by addressing the questions, “How are multi-party, multi-industry business models represented in today’s digital world?” and “How should business be conducted in the digital world?”" John Reilly in the first paragraph of his new book, "The Value Fabric: A guide to doing business in the digital world." John has been kind enough to…
Read More »"Communications service providers (CSPs) need to move from a mentality of saving costs to one of creating new sources of revenue. Those can come from effective use of CSP data, greater exploitation of the customer relationship and improved agility and flexibility to introduce new services over virtualised networks." Marek Maroszek here on Vanilla Plus. I have to say up front that I'm completely against the sentiment…
Read More »"One of the main assets that CSPs have is their customer base but when you compare the level of engagement a CSP has with its customers, compared to a say, Facebook or LinkedIn, there’s no comparison. Is it fair to say that CSPs are not engaging with their customer base and therefore are at risk of ignoring their most valuable asset?" Marek Maroszek here on Vanilla…
Read More »"...if you’re trying to do creative work, you’ll actually have more luck when you’re more tired and your brain isn’t functioning as efficiently. This sounds crazy, but it actually makes sense when you look at the reasoning behind it... If you’re tired, your brain is not as good at filtering out distractions and focusing on a particular task. It’s also a lot less efficient at remembering…
Read More »"Complicated isn't clever. It just looks clever to stupid people." Dave Trott. Regular readers will have noticed how often l refer to OSS being complicated, too complicated. So if Dave Trott is right, and I do think he might be onto something, then OSS isn't as clever as l might try to persuade you. I recall an NMS solution that had enormous power (in theory) and…
Read More »"The CFO’s understanding of the balance sheet and what drives value, together with his or her growing influence in strategy setting and technology decisions, makes the CFO an ideal business partner and agent of change. CFOs that have this 360 degree view of technology enablement and processes will be uniquely placed to help the whole of the ‘C’ suite rationalize and make tough investment decisions, whether…
Read More »Indosat Selects NEC and NetCracker for End-to-End OSS Transformation. NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology have announced that Indosat, one of the largest telecommunications services and network providers in Indonesia, has selected NEC and NetCracker to enable a large-scale OSS transformation. NetCracker will deliver its comprehensive OSS solution to help Indosat develop, provide and support enterprise services. Indosat offers mobile and fixed telephony as well as Internet…
Read More »"An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network." Marc Andreessen. There's a reason tech companies end up in different markets than when they started out... the…
Read More »"I’m sure I learned a great deal at University, and I can probably even recall an equation or two, but I will never forget Professor Collins’ 3 Principles of Engineering: 1. F = ma (The take-away is this: you can’t ignore physics) 2. You can’t push on a rope (You can’t ignore the reality of your experiences just because the math says so – chances are…
Read More »I'm pleased to announce the arrival of my latest publication, an eBook entitled, "Valuable OSS - Delivering a Return on Your Investment in Operational Support Systems (OSS)." You can grab it for free until 25 July 2015 via the link above or by clicking on the image below-right. Also keep your eye out for another free eBook that will be arriving shortly that will shine a…
Read More »"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Charles Darwin. An interesting thing happened when looking up the quote for this blog. The quote I was going to use was never actually spoken/written by Charles Darwin, even though it is perhaps the quote he is most famous for. Turns out that, "It Is Not…
Read More »"Why do we have to end up processing packets in four or five different locations for different functions? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Connectem consolidates packet gateway functions to process each packet just once, which is much more efficient. This is going to be important as the world moves toward IoT because the cost point of processing a packet has to be way, way…
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