"The telco industry is well known for having a five nines (ie 99.999%) up-time engineering standard. That's about 5 minutes of down-time per year. That's pretty impressive, although granted it still leaves room for improvement. OSS are used to measure figures like up-time (and many more of course). This gives CSPs the data to track and manage towards zero defects, or no down-time per year. Admirable…
Read More »Italy’s Linkem Selects Amdocs Virtualized Solution for Premium LTE Services. Amdocs Virtualized Policy Controller and Home Subscriber Server enable Linkem to shape dynamic quality of experience for customers, leveraging advanced network agility and performance. Amdocs announced that Linkem, an Italian provider of wireless broadband services, has selected an Amdocs virtualized network control solution to support the company's transition from WiMAX to LTE, and provide subscribers with…
Read More »Comptel Has Received Significant Order from Mobile Operator in Eurasia. Comptel Has Received Significant Order from Mobile Operator in Eurasia. The 3-year contract is a continuation of an existing customer relationship between the companies. The deal exceeding 1.9 million EUR consists of FlowOne Fulfillment, Data Refinery EventLink and Monetizer Policy and Charging Control software licenses and related services.
Read More »Comptel bags software deals worth over Rs 111 cr from Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular. Finnish telecommunications software provider Comptel Corporation said it has secured operations support systems and business support systems deals worth over 15 million (about Rs 111.23 crore) from India's top telecom service providers, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular. Idea Cellular has given a multi-year contract worth 10.6 million (Rs 76.07 crore) for software…
Read More »Comptel Has Received Significant Order from Australian NBN Co for FlowOne Fulfillment and Related Services. Comptel has a received significant order from Australian NBN Co for FlowOne Fulfillment software licenses and related services. The deal is a continuation and expansion of technology collaboration between the companies. The value of the deal is exceeds 1,1M euros.
Read More »Portugal Telecom, NEC and NetCracker Test CPE Virtualization for Residential Markets. NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced that they have successfully completed a proof of concept (PoC) for their virtualized customer-premises equipment (vCPE) solution at Portugal Telecom. The PoC took place in March 2015 and validated new revenue opportunities for vCPE in residential markets. Portugal Telecom is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal, providing fixed,…
Read More »CSG International Extends Relationship with Charter Communications for Five Years. CSG Systems International announced that it has extended its relationship with Charter Communications, a leading broadband provider and the nation’s fourth largest cable provider, to provide residential billing and customer care services through December 31, 2019. Currently, CSG provides its end-to-end, pre-integrated customer care and billing solution for all of Charter’s existing residential customers. The extended…
Read More »"While its [Docker] use (superficially) resembles that of virtual machines, it is much more lightweight as it operates at the level of a single process (rather than an emulation of an entire OS layer). This also allows it to start almost instantly, require very little resources and hence permits an order of magnitude more deployments per host than a virtual machine" Dirk Eddelbuettel on RevolutionAnalytics. A…
Read More »HP NFV System Accelerates Deployment of Network Functions Virtualization. HP announced HP NFV System, a pre-integrated network functions virtualization (NFV) platform designed to enable communications service providers (CSPs) to accelerate production NFV deployments. HP NFV System is pre-integrated with HP Helion OpenStack® Carrier Grade, providing an open source based cloud platform to support CSPs reliability, scalability and performance requirements. HP also introduced NFV Director 3.0, providing…
Read More »"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." Henry Ford. I have an interesting question to pose to you today dear readers, one that I don't think has a perfectly right or wrong answer, but one you're bound to have an opinion on. Let me put the contrasting views to you. Let's say you are a large CSP that has commissioned a new…
Read More »Consolidated Communications Deploys NetCracker’s OSS Solution to Optimize Service Delivery. NetCracker Technology announced that Consolidated Communications has gone live with NetCracker’s OSS solution to consolidate its service fulfillment systems and reduce the cost, time and effort required to enhance operational agility. Consolidated Communications also needed to centralize its fulfillment systems in order to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by minimizing yearly maintenance cost and improving…
Read More »"In the consumer space, I’m very excited that the world is waking up to maps. There’s this natural affinity to maps. Why is that? My theory is that maps are a kind of language. We have text language, we have music as a language, we have mathematical languages, we have software languages. Maps are a language. And their power is that they communicate intuitively to people.…
Read More »Chuck Robbins - CEO-Designate & Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations Cisco On May 1, 2015, Chuck Robbins was elected Chief Executive Officer by Cisco’s Board of Directors effective July 26, 2015. He became a member of the Board effective May 1, 2015. In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Cisco, Chuck Robbins has led the company’s Worldwide Sales Organization…
Read More »Telefónica Selects NetCracker for Massive BSS Transformation Program Across 7 Countries. NetCracker Technology announced that it has been selected to transform Telefónica’s BSS platforms for wireless and fixed services at seven Latin American Telefónica properties. This large-scale, multi-phase BSS and customer experience transformation program encompasses replacing existing billing systems and implementing new product catalog, ordering and omni-channel CRM platforms. The NetCracker BSS solution will support all…
Read More »Amdocs Has Signed a Definitive Agreement to Acquire Comverse BSS Assets. Amdocs announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a substantial majority of Comverse's business support systems (BSS) business unit assets for approximately $272 million in cash, subject to customary closing conditions. The Boards of Directors of Comverse and Amdocs have approved the transaction which, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to…
Read More »Kazakhstan's Kcell JSC Selects Amdocs for Business Support Systems Transformation. Amdocs announced that Kcell JSC, a TeliaSonera affiliate and Kazakhstan's largest mobile operator, has selected Amdocs for a business support systems (BSS) transformation project to enhance and differentiate its customer experience while simplifying the complexity of its business environment. Under a five-year agreement that includes implementation, migration, testing and ongoing support, Amdocs will replace third-party, legacy…
Read More »Indonesia's Transvision Selects Amdocs to Support Rapid Subscriber Growth. Amdocs billing and customer care solution will enable direct-to-home Pay TV provider to meet aggressive expansion plans and deliver innovative new services. Amdocs announced that Transvision, an Indonesian provider of direct-to-home Pay TV services and a new Amdocs customer, has selected Amdocs to provide a comprehensive customer care and billing solution in support of its expansion plans.…
Read More »"It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair." Reed Hastings. Whilst futurists talk about advances in wireless technology being the death of fibre, higher volumes of wireless traffic equals a larger number of fibre backhaul points... for the foreseeable future at least. As we go to microcells, nanocells,…
Read More »"Research suggests that the so-called “impostor syndrome” may get worse as people get better: the more accomplished you get, the more likely you are to rub shoulders with ever more talented people, leaving you feeling even more inadequate by comparison. The genuinely untalented, meanwhile, probably have no idea that they’re no good—because they’re too untalented to realize it. (This is the “Dunning-Kruger effect,” inspired by the…
Read More »Swisscom, NEC and NetCracker Celebrate Successful Transformation of Operational Support Systems for Swisscom’s All IP Program. NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology have announced that Swisscom AG has successfully completed building the ICT capabilities needed to migrate its major business lines, including fixed, mobile, TV and broadband, to the NetCracker Service Fulfillment solution as part of Swisscom’s ‘All IP Transformation’ program. This will enable Swisscom to utilize…
Read More »"Networks will be fundamentally changed by a set of SCAMS, which in turn will force an evolution in future OSS: Social Media Cloud (and Virtualisation) Analytics (and Big Data) Mobility Sensors" This quote comes from an upcoming market report that I'm preparing for release soon as a follow-up to my book, Mastering your OSS. The report is designed to look more into the future of OSS rather than…
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