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Sprint selects Brite:Bill

Sprint selects Brite:Bill to Improve Customer Billing Experience. Brite:Bill has been selected to serve as a billing communications solutions provider for Sprint Corp. As a result, Sprint will be able to enhance customer experience across all channels through transparent, personalized and easy-to-understand billing communications. Sprint required a customer communications and billing analytics capability to support its customers’ needs over the coming years, and Brite:Bill was selected…

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05/03/2015 No Comments

The end of network engineers (part 2)

"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them." James A. Michener. In a recent post, I posed the question about whether we would soon no longer need network engineers. This was slightly cheeky of me. Today I shall note some caveats on posing such a bold question, as well as providing my humble opinions on what the future may hold for this question: I think…

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05/03/2015 No Comments

Zain Kuwait selects Ericsson

Zain Kuwait selects Ericsson for transformation project to improve customer experience. Ericsson has been awarded the entire Business Support Systems (BSS) transformation project for Zain Kuwait. The agreement covers a wide range of products, solutions and system integration services, which will prepare Zain for the opportunities of the Networked Society. With Ericsson's solutions, all Zain customers will be able to benefit from the advantages of a…

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05/03/2015 No Comments

Ooredoo and Ericsson launches M2M platform

Ooredoo and Ericsson launches M2M platform in Indonesia. Ooredoo's Indosat and Ericsson has launched a cloud-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platform in Indonesia. The platform, Ericsson Device Connection Platform (DCP), uses innovative technologies suited to developing markets, which create connected solutions to existing problems. Indosat is the first member of Ooredoo Group to launch this M2M platform with Qatar, Algeria and Tunisia scheduled to follow this year. Dr…

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05/03/2015 No Comments

Procera Networks and Openet NFV demo

Procera and Openet to provide Proof of Concept demonstrating Virtualized Real-Time OSS/BSS. Procera Networks, Inc. together with Openet, a leading provider of real-time BSS (business support systems), today announced they will showcase an ETSI NFV proof of concept demonstration of real-time OSS/BSS running on a virtualized environment. It will show how Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) concepts can be applied to OSS/BSS to deliver on the business…

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04/03/2015 No Comments

Taiwan Star Telecom Signs NetCracker

Taiwan Star Telecom Signs Multi-Year Agreement for NetCracker Revenue Management Solution and Managed Services. NetCracker Technology announced that Taiwan Star Telecom has agreed to a multi-year extension of NetCracker’s Remote Managed Services for its billing operations. Taiwan Star Telecom is a 4G mobile operator based in Taipei, Taiwan. In June 2014, Taiwan Star acquired 3G operator Vibo, making it one of the leading mobile operators in…

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04/03/2015 No Comments

Telkomsel selects Ericsson

Ericsson powers Telkomsel's OSS transformation. Ericsson announced that it has been selected by Telkomsel for a comprehensive OSS transformation that will help the operator meet new customer demands and efficiently manage rapid network growth. Telkomsel, the largest mobile operator in Indonesia, will deploy a broad range of Ericsson software solutions to deliver premium service quality. Ericsson's Consulting and Systems Integration plays a key role in the…

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04/03/2015 No Comments

Immunity from the disruption of virtualisation

"Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE." Sid Vicious. In many previous posts (including "A new category of OSS"), I've pondered how network virtualisation will disrupt the status-quo within OSS. If, in the likely event that network virtualisation frameworks such as SDN / NFV…

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04/03/2015 No Comments

NTT DOCOMO selects Ericsson for NFV trial

Ericsson selected as solution partner for Network Virtualization platform and Cloud Manager by NTT DOCOMO. Ericsson has been selected as a solution partner to provide Japanese operator NTT DOCOMO with its network virtualization platform and cloud management for their project of commercial deployment of a complete virtualized evolved packet core (EPC) network in a multi-vendor environment. Ericsson will deploy its globally-recognized Cloud Execution Environment and Cloud…

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04/03/2015 No Comments

Multi-level rapport

"Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust." Raymond Arroyo. As a typical engineer, when I first entered OSS projects my initial focus was on understanding the technologies and delivering the best technical solution that I was able to. Soon enough though, I noticed that a technically…

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03/03/2015 No Comments

Samsung launches OSS with IBM and Guavus

Samsung Electronics Partners with IBM and Guavus for Next Generation OSS Offerings. Samsung announced key partnerships with IBM and Guavus to provide comprehensive Operational Support Systems (OSS) offerings to mobile network operators. Samsung’s newly launched portfolio of operational support systems, CognitiV OSS will help mobile service providers to manage and optimize their networks in a proactive and intelligent way. Based on information collected from network elements…

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03/03/2015 No Comments

The end of network training?

"Over the past six months, we have reorganized the entire company. Almost 70 percent of our engineers are now doing something different for us. We had to do some very painful things like laying off 7,000 people and hiring back 6,000 with different skill sets. We have moved from selling boxes to selling outcomes." John Chambers. In this recent post, I posed the question of whether…

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02/03/2015 2 Comments

Hutchison 3 Indonesia upgrades with CSG

Hutchison 3 Indonesia Upgrades Its CSG Convergent Billing Solution. CSG International announced that PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I), Hutchison Asia Telecom’s Indonesian subsidiary, will expand its use of CSG Singleview to support the projected uptake in H3I subscribers in the high-growth Indonesian market. CSG will support H3I’s aggressive subscriber growth through an upgrade of its CSG Singleview convergent billing platform. The solution will operate on cost-effective…

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28/02/2015 No Comments

Chorus selects CSG

Chorus, New Zealand Ultra-Fast Broadband Company Selects CSG Singleview. CSG International announced that Chorus, New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure company, has selected CSG Singleview to support its wholesale operations. Chorus delivers ultra-fast broadband to more than 830,000 homes and businesses across New Zealand through its wholesale channels. Around 1.8 million lines are connected to homes and businesses throughout the country. Chorus previously used CSG Singleview to…

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27/02/2015 No Comments

First thousand posts

I just noticed that yesterday's post was number 1,000 here on the PassionateAboutOSS blog. Hopefully the OSS ecosystem will provide the inspiration to write a few more yet. :) The most popular posts / pages have been: OSS History / Standards The components of SDN, NFV, MANO & OSS Blog roll OSS Vendors Gartner releases magic quadrant 2013 Planning a Project with WBS OSS Business Processes Project Kick-off…

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27/02/2015 2 Comments

NEC and NetCracker launch new brand

NEC and NetCracker Launch New Business Brand known as “NEC/NetCracker SDN/NFV Solutions.” NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and NetCracker Technology, a wholly owned NEC subsidiary, announced that they have launched a joint initiative to address the opportunities associated with software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) for communications service providers (CSPs). Network and infrastructure virtualization for service providers offers an unprecedented ability to fundamentally transform…

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26/02/2015 No Comments

The end of network engineers?

"Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." M. Scott Peck. I was recently discussing the future of networking with a mate of mine named Dom who…

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26/02/2015 No Comments

Selling something you don’t own

"Creativity's about ownership." John Maeda. The biggest profit you can make is from repeatedly selling something that you don't own. Some versions of this model will send you to jail. Other versions can make you rich. John Reilly has proposed the value fabric concept, where third-party organisations become interwoven into the supply chain. In the case of telco operators, this comes in many forms, including the…

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25/02/2015 No Comments

Intent OSS

"When you hire somebody to cut your lawn, you don’t give them a list of all the blades of grass in your yard and the length to cut each one to (prescription), you tell them to make it look nice (intent) and they figure out the rest. Intent-based networking emphasizes the “cut my lawn” interface and moving away from the “industry-standard CLI” model which has been…

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24/02/2015 2 Comments

Is OSS on the nose?

“Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.” Paul Theroux. As the domain name says, I’m passionate about OSS. However, I’m starting to wonder whether its reputation outside of OSS fanatics (and there are many!) is on the nose to such an extent that the term “OSS” could soon be relegated to being a legacy term. OSS…

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23/02/2015 No Comments

Telekom Austria Group trials NEC/Netcracker SDN

NEC and NetCracker Complete SDN-Enabled vCPE Trial at Telekom Austria Group. NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced that Telekom Austria Group, the largest telecommunications group in Austria, has successfully completed its in-depth trial of the NEC/NetCracker end-to-end virtual customer-premises equipment (vCPE) solution. The solution included vCPE, SDN controller, service and network orchestration as well as virtual network functions (VNFs) from multiple vendors. Telekom Austria Group is…

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22/02/2015 No Comments