"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…
Read More »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…
Read More »"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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »"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…
Read More »"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…
Read More »"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…
Read More »“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…
Read More »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…
Read More »Razorsight Momentum Continues with Virgin Mobile Deployment. Razorsight, a provider of cloud-based predictive analytics solutions, announced Virgin Mobile Latin America (“VMLA”) as part of its impressive client list. VMLA has deployed Razorsight’s advanced analytics solution under a multi-year agreement in Chile, Colombia and Mexico to support its accelerated expansion. Razorsight’s advanced analytics will power targeted marketing campaigns and assist in its delivery of fanatical customer service.…
Read More »"My Ph.D. was based on research and development of new breakthrough technologies. As a scientist, Dr. Andersen instructed us to use our minds, training and skills to solve complex and hard scientific problems. If one solves easy problems, then hundreds of people can do the same. You will differentiate yourself by solving complex, yet big, problems..." Hossein Eslambolchi here in this interesting article on anomalytics. In…
Read More »Redknee Supports Digicel to Offer Prepaid Energy in Asia Pacific. Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that it is supporting Digicel, a leading global group mobile network operator, to offer prepaid electricity to residents and business owners in Papua New Guinea. Digicel has been using Redknee's converged billing solution to provide its customers with prepaid and postpaid offerings for voice, messaging and data. The flexibility of Redknee's software…
Read More »"Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand." Douglas Rushkoff. Okay, so OSS probably won't become a lifestyle brand at any point soon but the customer-facing OSS that we discussed…
Read More »"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." Alan Kay. Something really intrigues me... In the not too distant future, assuming a majority of organisations are hosted on service provider infrastructure (ie XaaS) rather than running in-house infrastructure, does this imply the number of customers for hardware (compute/storage/networks) will significantly reduce? Service providers would obviously be major buyers, but who else do…
Read More »“You are in the business of testing your guesses, not convincing yourself that you are right.” Nathan Furr, in his book, “Nail It then Scale It” The speed of implementation of OSS projects tends to be quite lengthy (months/years on tier-one CSPs), so we’re not exactly as responsive as some other industries by example. However, it’s inevitable that change will speed up so much in the…
Read More »"A manufacturer or retailer that responds to changes in sales in hours instead of weeks is no longer at heart a product company, but a service company that has a product offering." Bill Gates, in his book, "Business @ the Speed of Thought." How often does an OSS vendor win a new sale? Is it in a timeframe of one a week? One a month? There…
Read More »Chilean Market Leader Engages CSG International Managed Services. CSG International announced that one of Chile’s leading telecom service providers has awarded CSG a multi-year managed services contract for the operation and management of its wholesale and roaming systems. The service provider is a long-time CSG client, leveraging multiple components of CSG’s award-winning Wholesale Business Management Solution, including Interconnect, Roaming and Intermediate. Previously, the provider operated the…
Read More »Telekom Srbija selects Ericsson Billing Solutions. Serbian operator Telekom Srbijahas signed an agreement to implement Ericsson’s software suite, Charging and Billing in One solution, for its residential and corporate mobile and fixed-line subscribers, enabling the completion of the transformation of its business support systems (BSS). The implementation is the final step in a transformation process that began in 2011 and will provide the Serbian operator the…
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