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CES: Yahoo CEO announces software development platform
By: By Sarah Reedy
As the world is becoming more open, interoperable and social, everything is going mobile, and the future becomes about making the Web experience simpler and more efficient for its more than one billion users to manage their online and offline lives, Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo told Consumer Electronics Show attendees today...
NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By: By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Microsoft, Experian tackle identity management
By: By Tim McElligott
As a proof of concept, it may not be ready for this holiday season, but Microsoft and Experian have developed an identity management solution using Microsoft’s Windows CardSpace that streamlines the identity authentication process and makes it more secure...
Nortel adds muscle, multicasting to PBT
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has updated its metro Ethernet portfolio with new hardware and software to add muscle to its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) platform and give it the ability to manage multicast traffic...
Juniper opens Junos OS to third-party developers
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks has created a software development kit (SDK) that will allow third-party application developers to create applications for the router vendor’s Junos operating system...
Telcordia gets back to basics
By: By Tim McElligott
Telcordia held a conference last month for press and analysts in San Francisco, bringing in customer representatives from around the world...
Veraz does its part in Onemax network
By: By Tim McElligott
When Alcatel-Lucent handed the proverbial ribbon-cutting scissors to Raoul Fontanez, Chief Executive Officer of Onemax, at the launch of the world’s first WiMax Rev-e network in the Dominican Republic in October, Amit Chawla, vice president of global solutions and engineering at Veraz Networks, watched as the company basked in the glory of driving the implementation...
Privacy and security fail in UK again
By: By Tim McElligott
For the third time in three months and at the beginning of the identity theft’s busiest season, lax security procedures in Great Britain have led to the mishandling and loss of personal information by government officials...
Sigma Systems in right place at right time
By: By Tim McElligott
Sigma Systems was a thought leader in the telecom software space at the height of the Internet, telecom and competitive carrier investment craze...
IBM: Security linked to NGN rollouts
By: By Tim McElligott
Bolstered by the frame-of-reference to a previous survey, IBM said today that carriers around the world are starting to see security for IP-based services less as a hindrance to service rollout and more as an opportunity to provide security services to its customer base. They just don’t all have a plan for how to realize it...
MWA: Nakina brings Network OS to Juniper partnership
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Putting action behind its self-described status as a multi-vendor provider of systems for managing its and others’ network gear, Juniper Networks took Nakina Systems into its J-Partner Solutions Alliance Program this week...
MWA: Oracle unifies inventory management
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--A new inventory management system conceived and put into development two years ago within MetaSolv came to market this week as Oracle’s Communications Unified Inventory Management...
MWA: HP proffers answer to the SDP question
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Get ready to add one more “2.0” designation to your lexicon. The industry is abuzz with terms such as Web 2.0 and Telco 2.0. Now, with a new service delivery solution that HP says bridges the gap between them, we have SDP 2.0...
MWA: LaJoie says ahoy to TM Forum
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--In his keynote address at the TM Forum’s Management World Americas, Time Warner Cable Chief Technology Officer Mike LaJoie said joining the TM Forum along with several other cable providers is “an opportunity to raise all tides and float all boats.”...
MWA: TMF president gets presidential
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Leery of being a prognosticator in an industry where much of what has been prognosticated in the last ten years has become rubbish, TM Forum president Martin Creaner nonetheless delivered a blunt but hopeful state of the OSS union address at the forum’s Management World Americas event this week...
MWA: Vertek offers enhanced relationship counseling
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--There may be no rest for competitively put-upon services providers, but Vertek Corporation would like its customers to rest assured that their partner relationships are in good shape...
MWA: IMS Catalyst unites the lifecycle
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Seamless and profitable services are ideal goals for the IP Multimedia Subsystem. And a group of TM Forum members, including service providers from China and Taiwan, got together in one of the forum’s Catalyst projects at Management World Americas to show that the goal is achievable...
MWA: Amdocs adds Portugal to Vodafone client list
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Vodafone Portugal has selected Amdocs operations support systems to streamline its network resource and capacity management in both its 2G and 3G networks. Amdocs said from the TM Forum’s Management World Americas event that it also will support Vodafone’s new DSL service with its OSS...
MWA: NetCracker gets high in Dallas
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--High definition and high bandwidth are new areas of focus for NetCracker Technology as the OSS provider announced new solutions for both from the TM Forum’s Management World Americas this week...
Service creation and management find common ground
By: By Tim McElligott
Talk about silos. Does it make sense for the creation and management of services to exist in different parts of the telecom brain?...
The future is open
By: By Susana Schwartz
The TMF's Content Encounter Catalyst aims to break conventional business models and showcase a new service delivery framework...
Let it bleed
By: By Tim McElligott
Verizon's Fiber Optic Service is one of the most anticipated and closely watched technology rollouts in telecom's modern era. However, what deserves an even closer look is the underlying software infrastructure for enabling the services that will make FiOS more than just another very fast network...
The next platform up
By: By Patrick Kelly, co-founder and analyst for OSS Observer
Complexity at all layers will force service providers to restructure their business...
Tellabs, Carrier Access joint backhaul effort stalls
By: By Ed Gubbins
The wireless backhaul product developed jointly by Carrier Access and Tellabs has been snubbed by the operator for which it was created, Carrier Access revealed this week...
VON: Certification program coming early next year, IMS Forum says
By: By Rich Karpinski
While still wrestling with the exact approach, the IMS Forum plans to have a certification program in place by early next year that should help service providers feel more comfortable that IP Multimedia Subsystem gear will be interoperable...
