HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) have signed a relationship agreement establishing both parties’ intent to form a 10-year global alliance to help customers leverage the convergence of telecommunication and IT. (more…)
HP is introducing three software solutions to help communications service providers manage the customer experience to create greater loyalty, especially among high-value customers. As part of the HP Next-Generation Operations Support Systems (HP NGOSS) portfolio, the service assurance solutions enhance the quality of the customer experience by ensuring that all paid-for services are actually received. The three solutions are: HP Service Quality Management, HP TeMIP Service Console and HP Unified Correlation Analyzer. (more…)
HP announced today that NTT DOCOMO, a world leader in 3G and multimedia services and the largest mobile operator in Japan, deployed a standards-based (more…)
HP pointed to five telecom operators that are transforming traditional billing
operations into real-time engines to grow with HP’s charging technology.
HP RealTime Charging enables precise, customer-centric pricing models that help telecom operators expand revenue with high-value services. The offering also helps operators create competitive (more…)
Today, HP announced a comprehensive set of consulting services designed to help communications companies improve their competitiveness, as they adapt to the convergence of telecom, IT, and entertainment. (more…)
At the global operations and management event, Management World 2008, HP presented some of the more than 400 communications service providers that are deploying its solutions to assure high quality of service for mobile and fixed customers while reducing their own cost and risk. (more…)
HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) has been named the overall market leader in telecom service management by OSS Observer in a recent in-depth report. OSS Observer is a leading telecom analyst firm and is based in Illinois. (more…)
HP has recently announced numerous upgrades to its OpenView portfolio of OSS solutions for next generation networks (NGN) and services. The upgrades will help service providers reduce opex and improve the customer experience.
“The new enhanced integration between HP OpenView TeMIP and HP OpenView Network Node Manager, which we are now trialing, allows us to manage both our IP and telecom infrastructure from our preferred single console while still having the best in class telecom and IP management tools,” said Gaute Elvenes, chief of the Marienborg network operations center, Jernbaneverket. “This combination will save our operations staff time in localizing and responding to all kinds of problems - critical in our highly reliable network.”
The most notable is the completed integration between HP OpenView TeMIP and HP OpenView Network Node Manager. Together, they increase operations efficiency across heterogeneous networks - and offer service providers proven IP network management as part of the industry’s most broadly deployed OSS platform. (more…)
HP today announced its participation in a number of industry initiatives designed to help telecom companies manage voice and data networks more efficiently through New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) technologies. The HP Integrated Service Management (ISM) platform is HP’s Operational Support System (OSS) offering. It uses a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate operations and business support systems to help carriers and operators manage networks and services.
HP is enhancing HP ISM with functionality from the OSS through Javaâ„¢ initiative (OSS/J). This initiative focuses on the adoption of standards-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and design guidelines for the development of component-based OSS systems. OSS/J technologies provide the foundation for unifying legacy systems and new applications quickly and at low cost. (more…)
HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) has developed service-oriented architecture (SOA) frameworks targeting four industries that are ripe to adopt the latest trend in software development. Designed for the financial services, manufacturing and distribution, network service provider and public sector industries, HP’s SOA frameworks allow customers to more readily integrate software applications, take advantage of market opportunities and gain competitive advantage. (more…)
Mumbai and Paris, -- Alcatel-Lucent Managed Services, the first of its kind managed network services joint venture company of Alcatel-Lucent and Reliance Communications , one of India's largest integrated telecommunications service provider, today completes one year.
A giant U.S. "vulture" fund is in the hunt for Nortel Networks Corp. MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, a private-equity investor in distressed companies, says it believes Nortel can still survive as a free-standing company and does not have to be auctioned off in pieces.
Telefonica SA is eying a bid for Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK, which analysts value between EUR3 billion and EUR4 billion after several years of underpeformance, according to a Financial Times report.
The implementation is a key element of Kyrgyztelecom's plans to build a next-generation Metro Ethernet fiber-to-the-home aggregation network, initially in the capital of Bishkek and then across other cities.
Cisco Systems believes networking among doctors as well as among sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address at the company's annual Cisco Live customer conference that was briefly disrupted by a protest and a technical glitch.
Canada's continuing fire sale of local TV stations got rained on this week as cable operator Shaw Communications pulled plans to buy three over-the-air outlets from CTVglobemedia for $1 each.
The never ending saga of Dish Network Corp. A versus TiVO Inc. ends up hurting shareholders more while the two companies duke it out in court over technology patents.A Today TIVO shares are the big loser down 14% while DISH shares are off 2%, but the battle is far from over.
The government is helping two dozen TV stations that became difficult to receive by antenna when they switched to new frequencies as part of the digital TV transition, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday.
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Millicom International Cellular has announced that its previously announced strategic review of its Asian assets is progressing according to plan.
ADTRAN , Inc., , a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced that Rice Belt Telephone, a progressive independent telephone company based in Arkansas, has selected the Total Access 5000 for its Fiber-to-the-Premises deployments.
Canadian television giant CTV Inc. says that Shaw Communications Inc. will not proceed with the purchase of three over-the-air TV stations for $1 each.
There is only one obvious question in Cisco's overture Tuesday that it might take on Microsoft and Google in the online productivity application arena -- what took so long? On Tuesday, Doug Dennerline, senior vice president of Cisco's collaboration software group, said during the Cisco Live Virtual conference that the company might compete with ...
The new head of FairPoint Communications said Wednesday the company will have to make some big changes to get out of its financial pinch, but he's optimistic it won't have to file for bankruptcy reorganization.
MONROE, La. - CenturyTel Inc. is expected to close its acquisition of Embarq Corp., forming a new rural telecommunications giant.
