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TELEMANAGEMENT WORLD 2006 TOP NEWSTMW: CA stays in telecom mixAs software giants such as Oracle, Microsoft and IBM have renewed their interest in the telecom industry recently through acquisitions and new offerings, 30-year-old enterprise software firm CA doesn’t think it should be left out of such an esteemed grouping... JacobsRimell gets busy in Norway across EuropeWhile some vendors were demonstrating technology advances through Catalyst projects or providing case studies through sessions at TeleManagement World last week in Dallas, JacobsRimell demonstrated the acceptance of its standards-based fulfillment solutions with deployments at UPC Broadband and Norway’s Get... TMW: NetScout launches nGeniusDALLAS--NetScout Systems announced at the TeleManagement World Americas event here the availability of its nGenius platform, the latest evolution in its performance management offerings. The trade show floor was dotted with performance monitoring companies that are edging into new areas and adding new capabilities to their traditional platforms. ... TMW: SSO Catalyst simple on the outsideDALLAS--Single Sign on. It sounds so simple. And in networks that have been multivendor for quite sometime it sounds like something that most assuredly has been addressed before. Not so. Not in a standard way. So the SSO Catalyst Project at TeleManagement World this week demonstrated that it is not only possible, but also preferable to secure one’s network management domains before regulators feel the need to step in and do it for them... TMW: Dancing to the beat of a BT drumDALLAS--Phillip Dance, chief information officer for technology at BT, made it to his first TeleManagement World event this week. He survived a near-death experience to get here and came up for air from his company’s industry-changing 21st Century Network transformation project to bring BT’s story of success to the OSS community, many of which played a vital role... TMW: NetCracker gets multi-phase deployment at SprintDALLAS--Sprint has completed the first phase of a project to automate the provisioning of its IP services thanks to a successful deployment of NetCracker OSS software... TMW: Wily chosen for AVIS Catalyst projectDALLAS--CA announced that its Wily Technology division was chosen to provide monitoring solutions for the TeleManagement Forum’s Accelerated VoIP and IMS Services Catalyst project... TMW: Talking transformationDALLAS--A panel of executives here during the TeleManagement World conference grappled with a wide range of issues related to service transformation--from the drivers for new service introduction to internal change to the operational issues involved in the process... TMW: Facing the futureDALLAS--TeleManagement Forum founder and chairman Keith Willetts, in his traditional keynote address at TeleManagement World Americas here, acknowledged a future ripe with possibilities for how telecom services may evolve... TMW: Telling the whole storyDALLAS--TeleManagement World Americas welcomed its first keynote speaker ever from a media company, and while Mark Lukasiewicz, vice president of NBC Digital Media for NBC News, began by confessing, “I’m not a software engineer and I know nothing about operations,” he may have helped introduce some perspective for a telecom industry currently entranced by the online social networking revolution... TMW: Cambron challenges software developersDALLAS--Noting a history of transformational success in the telecom network infrastructure, Keith Cambron, president and CEO of AT&T Labs challenged members of the TeleManagement Forum to match network transformational advances... Russia's BSB joins AVIS CatalystAVIS may be the market leader in rental cars, but as a telecom acronym it stands for Accelerating VoIP and IMS-based Services. And AVIS is the TeleManagement Forum Catalyst project, now in its second phase, that drew the attention of Vladimir Belenkovitch, CEO of BSB, a competitive service provider in and around Moscow... Keith Willetts, Founder, TeleManagement ForumTeleManagement Forum Founder Keith Willetts spoke with Telephony's Tim McElligott about the upcoming TeleManagement World event in Dallas and what the forum is doing in the face of change... When universes collideThe concept of the multiverse and parallel universes is catching on in the world of astrophysics. And those historically locked in the telecom universe are beginning to see a similar dynamic: theirs is not the only world that matters... A Telephony Podcast: IDC's TeleManagement World OutlookTelephony Senior Editor Tim McElligott talks to IDC analyst Shira Levine about the focus of next week’s TeleManagement World event, service delivery platforms and the evolution of the operations software market... Adding SOA to the OSS blueprintPhase III Catalyst projects do more than provide a proof-of-concept. By the third phase, the expectations are higher. For France Telecom, the sponsor of the NGN OSS Blueprint Catalyst project, and all other participants, the expectation is for a real-world solution that bridges the gap between service creation, product management and service fulfillment for IMS and other converged services infrastructure... Martin Creaner, Chief Technology Officer, TeleManagement ForumOne year ago, TMF members AT&T, BT, Colt Telecommunications, EDS, Metasolv, Oracle, QinetiQ, Sprint-Nextel, SunTec, TDC, TeliaSonera, and Tribold launched the Telecom Applications Map. Two weeks ago, TMF released Version 2. Martin Creaner, chief technology officer for the TeleManagement Forum, talked to Telephony's Tim McElligott about the project's progress--and threw in a teaser about the forum's Prosspero project... Converging operationsWhen carriers talk about fixed/mobile convergence, they usually discuss the big-ticket items: the merging of networks, routing, switching and seamless connectivity while moving from the home to the office and worlds in between. They talk about applications that can function over whatever pipe they happen to latch on to. Only a select few dwell on the inner workings of those networks--the support systems. But convergence of the operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) is as critical as the access networks themselves... A Telephony Podcast: TeleManagement World PreviewTelephony talks to Jim Warner, vice chairman of the TeleManagement Forum, about IMS, telecom/entertainment convergence and what else to expect from December's TeleManagement World Americas 2006 event. Download this podcast now... Being the catalystThis December in Dallas, six project demonstrations will take place on the floor of the Adam's Mark Hotel. The projects include One Stop Service fulfillment for FTTX, an NGN OSS Blueprint, Service Oriented Architecture-based NGOSS, Single Sign On, accelerating VoIP and IMS-based services, and the one we will highlight first in this series of newsletters: Product and Service Assembly... Jim Warner, Vice Chairman of the TeleManagement ForumTelephony recently talked to TMF's Jim Warner about developments in the world of telecom operations and how those trends factor into TMF's direction and the agenda of the upcoming TeleManagement World Americas 2006... Writing the book on IPTV qualityService providers now rolling out IPTV services probably would not agree with the notion that they are making it up as they go along, since that would be an insult to the strategists and technicians who have put hours upon years into the ongoing transformation of telcos into video providers. Yet when you consider how the industry is approaching quality of service for IPTV, it's difficult to come away with any other impression, at least at first glance... |
advertisement TELEMANAGEMENT WORLD SHOW DAILY NEWSLETTERSShow Daily: Dec. 5, 2006Noting a history of transformational success in the telecom network infrastructure, Keith Cambron, president and CEO of AT&T Labs challenged members of the TeleManagement Forum to match network transformational advances. Click here to read more from today's Show Daily ... Show Daily Preview: Nov. 28, 2006In the session, called "Telecom Media Convergence: Collision and Disruption," a diverse group of panelists will address topics such as layers of convergence and fragmentation, disruptive innovations for scheduling and distributing video, de-centralized content and P2P networks. Read more from this Show Daily Preview... Show Daily Preview: Nov. 14, 2006When carriers talk about fixed/mobile convergence, they usually discuss the big-ticket items: the merging of networks, routing, switching and seamless connectivity while moving from the home to the office and worlds in between. Only a select few dwell on the inner workings of those networks--the support systems. But convergence of the operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) is as critical as the access networks themselves. Read more from this Show Daily Preview... Show Daily Preview: Oct. 31, 2006Service providers now rolling out IPTV services probably would not agree with the notion that they are making it up as they go along, since that would be an insult to the strategists and technicians who have put hours upon years into the ongoing transformation of telcos into video providers. Yet when you consider how the industry is approaching quality of service for IPTV, it's difficult to come away with any other impression, at least at first glance. Read more from this Show Daily Preview... |
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