:: TM Forum's MWA 2007 ::MWA TOP NEWSDevice management is hot, but is it standard?The industry appears to have rediscovered the need for device management, but the TeleManagement Forum has begun asking if it is a solution in need of a standard... MWA: Axiom, Freedom4 argue for U.K.-wide WiMAXFreedom4, the go-to-market brand chosen last month by U.K.-based Pipex Wireless, will give users freedom from restricted wireless access... MWA: Nakina brings Network OS to Juniper partnershipDALLAS--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 managementDALLAS--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 questionDALLAS--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: Time for Time Warner Cable to be a CatalystDALLAS--Leave it to a cable company to come in and identify a long-standing and growing concern that mobile operators have been too busy growing to address... MWA: LaJoie says ahoy to TM ForumDALLAS--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 presidentialDALLAS--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 counselingDALLAS--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 lifecycleDALLAS--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: CA cracks the BlackBerry management problemDALLAS--With its business from managed services providers such as Verizon Business, BT Business Services and Sprint nearly doubling over the last year and momentum building from its 2006 acquisition of Wily Technology, CA expanded its managed services portfolio with a new Mobile Device Management solution, which it introduced this week at the TM Forum’s Management World Americas... Big-picture analysis highlights importance of strategic balanceThe TM Forum's Business Benchmarking group and analyst firm OSS Observer released the first of a series of industry updates this week that complement and make more consumable the forum's in-depth industry benchmarking study reports... MWA: Amdocs adds Portugal to Vodafone client listDALLAS--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 DallasDALLAS--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... Catalyst for progressIf you're familiar with TM Forum events, you're familiar with the Catalyst Projects. The TMF calls them, collectively, its living lab. For nine years, twice a year, member companies work together in a collaborative environment with emerging technologies and capabilities to solve some of the most pressing operational and interoperability issues... Martin Creaner, president of the TM ForumA few short weeks from now, in Dallas, the TM Forum -- which gave into linguistic pressure and shortened its name from the TeleManagement Forum in July -- will host its U.S.-based conference called Management World Americas. As the industry reinvents itself to support next-generation services, so must the forum, but President Martin Creaner says the challenge for its members stays basically the same: It's the same old, same old OSS/BSS challenges, but for a new communications world. Creaner spoke with Telephony's Tim McElligott about what attendees can expect from the event... Cable provides a welcome addition to TM ForumEarly last month, MegaFon, the largest mobile provider in the Russian Federation, became the 600th member of the TM Forum. And while the forum's member base continues to expand to other countries, now 65, and other market segments, such as enterprises and content providers, it is perhaps the recent flood of cable companies that will have the most to contribute and to absorb... |
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