The world of OSS is rapidly changing so there are always news-worthy stories floating about
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
FASTWEB Selects NetCracker to Transform Service Layer. NetCracker Technology announced that FASTWEB, one of the main telecommunications providers in Italy, selected NetCracker for its OSS transformation to optimize operations and provide better quality services for its customers. FASTWEB offers a wide range of integrated Internet as well as fixed and mobile voice services to residential […]
Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent to combine to create an innovation leader in next generation technology and services for an IP connected world. Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent announce today their intention to combine to create an innovation leader in next generation technology and services for an IP connected world. The two companies have entered into a memorandum of […]
Ericsson to transform OSS for Orange Polska. Orange Polska has selected Ericsson as its OSS transformation partner, signing a six-year deal whereby Ericsson will carry out the transformation and optimization of processes and information systems. Ericsson will supply Orange Polska with consulting and systems integration capabilities, as well as an operations support system (OSS) software […]
Comptel Receives Order From POST Technologies. Comptel has received a major order from POST Technologies in Luxembourg. This 3 year contract is a continuation of the long customer relationship that already exists since 1996. The deal amounting to 2.4 million euros comprises Fulfillment software licenses and services. “We are really pleased to expand our customer […]
Telefónica NFV reference lab releases OpenMANO NFV orchestration stack. Telefónica has released its OpenMANO NFV orchestration stack to open source community of developers through GitHub portal. OpenMANO is an open source project that provides a practical realization of the Management and Orchestration reference architecture (NFV MANO), currently under ETSI’s NFV ISG standardization. Today, the stack […]
Ericsson closes acquisition of Canada-based TimelessMIND Ericsson announced the completion of its acquisition of TimelessMind, a Canada-based consulting and systems integration company specializing in operations and business support (OSS/BSS). The closing follows the announcement on February 20, 2015, that Ericsson entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of TimelessMIND. Paolo Colella, Vice President and […]
InfoVista Acquires Ipanema Technologies to Maximize Business Application Experience. InfoVista announced it has acquired Ipanema Technologies. Ipanema delivers automated solutions to guarantee application performance across enterprises’ large and complex networks. For the fifth consecutive year, Ipanema has been positioned as a Visionary in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization”. The company’s solutions are used by […]
América Móvil Selects NEC and NetCracker to Lead OSS Consolidation and Transformation Across All LATAM Operators. NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced today that they were selected to provide a consolidated, end-to-end OSS solution for all of América Móvil’s (AMX) Latin American operators. This program will include AMX operators in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Dominican […]
Accenture and Alcatel-Lucent Helping Telefonica Enhance Experience For Consumers in Europe and Latin America. Accenture and Alcatel-Lucent have announced a four-year agreement with Telefonica to deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Customer Experience Management software for Telefonica’s residential customers in European and Latin American countries. As a result, customers will gain more control over their broadband experience, including […]
“OpenStack Networking (Neutron) is the focus of development for a full software-defined networking stack. However, many organizations still use nova-networking in production, even though development on the networking code that is part of Compute will be deprecated in a future release. More and more, organizations are at a point of decision with their cloud and […]
Plusnet Selects NetCracker for Next-Generation Billing Transformation. NetCracker Technology announced that Plusnet has selected NetCracker to transform its rating and billing infrastructure. NetCracker delivered its comprehensive Revenue Management solution to support Plusnet in continually addressing industry changes and enhancing end-to-end customer billing, rating and charging operations. Plusnet is an award-winning provider of low-cost broadband and […]
