Fanfare, delivering innovative testing solutions to service providers (SPs), network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and enterprises, has recently announced that BT has chosen Fanfare’s iTest®, the company’s flagship test automation product, as a key component of the strategic testing platform it is putting in place to automate complex system testing. BT will deploy iTest in an enterprise-wide initiative to standardize the communication of test assets across the company, as well as between BT and its suppliers. [Read more…]

Tyco Telecommunications, a business unit of Tyco Electronics and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, has successfully transmitted a signal at 40 Gigabits per second from Japan to the USA. The test was conducted using dark fibers on the existing Tata Communications TGN-Pacific submarine cable system that links Tokyo to multiple USA West Coast city PoPs.

The data was carried from Toyohashi, Japan to Los Angeles without the need for regeneration. The demonstration marks the next step in the ongoing progression of undersea cable data rates and will ultimately enable such undersea cable systems to carry more capacity over existing links. [Read more…]

The 3rd annual Frost & Sullivan OSS/BSS Asia Pacific summit kick-started today in Singapore. The two day summit which will host senior members of Asia Pacific telecom industry will combine a rich mix of practical implementation successes along with analyst insights from global market research. [Read more…]

Traffix Systems, the Next Generation Control Plane and Diameter expert, has announced the addition of Long Term Evolution (LTE) Diameter support across its product portfolio.

Traffix provides Next Generation Control Plane and Diameter solutions that enable to bridge NGN and Legacy networks and to connect network functionality across different wireline and wireless technologies. [Read more…]

VOSS, recently named by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in Unified Communications (UC) for 2009, has released VOSS 6.1, an upgrade to the highly successful VOSS unified communications service delivery platform (UC SDP). [Read more…]

Astellia, leading provider of monitoring solutions to maximize Quality of Service (QoS) management and performance of mobile networks, has announced turnover of 24.98 M€ for 2008, an annual increase of 20%. The net profit ratio is 13% and this provides support for foreign investments aimed at speeding up international expansion (+49%). The net result has progressed by 15%. [Read more…]

Polystar OSIX, a leading supplier of Service Assurance and Network Performance Monitoring solutions, has recently announced successful implementation of Real-Time Media Quality Analysis functionalities at Sunrise, second-largest telecommunications provider in Switzerland. [Read more…]

Infonova, a leading european BSS vendor and buroserv, an Australian managed services company for telcos, recently announced that they have recently signed an agreement to implement Infonova’s multi tenant BSS platform to provide specialized white label back-office and front office solutions to the telecommunications industry. [Read more…]

ConceptWave Software Inc., a leading provider of order automation and catalog management solutions, has announced BSkyB (Sky) in the UK as a new customer. ConceptWave® will enable Sky’s strategic initiative to streamline its sales and fulfillment process, reducing time-to-market and cost-of-sale of convergent services offerings including Internet, telephony and television. [Read more…]

Polystar OSIX, a leading supplier of Service Assurance and Network Performance Monitoring solutions, has recently announced a technology partnership with Telchemy®, Incorporated, the global leader in Voice and Video over IP performance management technology. [Read more…]

The elite network econique is organising the 3rd European CxO Dialog Telco Strategy the 30th of November and 1st of December 2009 in Berlin. The networking platform for executives will examine the evolving telecommunications environment as a whole, emerging technologies and strategies that will ensure market players remain competitive in the newly converging markets. [Read more…]

Mycom, a leading global provider of best-in-class OSS Service Assurance software solutions and innovative ICT professional services to the telecoms industry, has announced with the support and funding from Taiwan’s Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT), and Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), the official celebration of their software Research and Development facility in Taiwan, hailing it as a success. [Read more…]

One year after concluding their first agreement, Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, announced today it is working with Mobile Network Operator PLAY to route all of the company’s international call traffic around the globe. PLAY (P4), the first multimedia mobile phone operator in Poland, already has over 2 million customers within the country. [Read more…]

Etisalat, and Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications and a part of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, have jointly announced the launch of enterprise network services, enabling to offer a range of dedicated Ethernet services to the customers seeking connectivity in the UAE and globally. The partnership enables Etisalat to extend its reach by offering Layer-2 Global Ethernet services into and out of the UAE, while Tata Communications can now extend its global network coverage into the UAE. [Read more…]

LogNet Billing Ltd., a global provider of Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) solutions for multiple-play communications and utilities service providers, has announced that the company has extended its relationship with Melita. Melita is Malta’s first quadruple play service provider to offer full integration between four telecommunication and home entertainment services: television, Internet, fixed line telephony and mobile communication. [Read more…]

RoamingTools, as a global software solution provider in the roaming industry has launched a wide range of affordable TAP, NRTRDE and RAEX applications for in-house use to ease your everyday work. [Read more…]

NetCracker Speeds Time-to-Market, Reduces Costs, and Improves Customer Experience

WALTHAM, Mass.–February 16, 2009– Intelsat, the world’s leading fixed satellite services provider, has selected NetCracker Technology software and services to improve the automation of its service delivery processes. [Read more…]

End-to-End Solution for Femtocell, WiMAX, and LTE Helps Mobile Operators Rapidly Monetize Next-Generation Wireless Infrastructure

BARCELONA – February 16, 2009 – NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced today a joint solution aimed at helping operators streamline their operations and optimize their investments in wireless broadband. This joint solution exemplifies the commitment made to the market by the two companies to jointly bring unique new capabilities that enable service providers to quickly exploit the opportunities offered by the rising demand for wireless broadband. The solution leverages [Read more…]

VOSS, a leader in Unified Communications (UC) service delivery software, announced today that it has appointed Norman Halvorson as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Will Blench to the role of VP Global Sales. VOSS, who closed $12 million in Series B private equity funding in September 2008, is using the funds to fuel its growth in the rapidly expanding marketing for deploying UC features (i.e. deploying integrated voice and video telephony, messaging, conferencing, presence and collaboration tools). These two strategic new hires directly support the funding objectives to grow the business. [Read more…]

Polystar OSIX announced today its successful involvement in the GSMA Global Roaming Quality program and the first commercial installation of Global Roaming Quality (GRQ) solution.

Global Roaming Quality is a new framework for Roaming Service Level Agreements (RSLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Quality of Service (QoS) and is aimed to [Read more…]