The WiMAX Forum® today announced the launch of its Interoperability Testing (IOT) Certification program, which will leverage Clearwire Corporation’s commercial WiMAX network experience to further ensure interoperability in the 2.5GHz spectrum band. Compared to other mobile IOT programs, this WiMAX Forum IOT Certification program is unprecedented because of its ability to accelerate certification of all vendors’ products and provide more certainty to operators around the globe that WiMAX™ products will efficiently interoperate in a commercial network environment. [Read more…]

Telarix, Inc., the leading provider of business information exchange and interconnect OSS/BSS solutions for content providers, IP service providers and global fixed and mobile operators, has recently announced that Mexico’s largest cable operator has deployed Telarix’s portfolio of interconnect business optimization solutions. The service provider will leverage Telarix’s iXTools® to manage their growing portfolio of services, including digital voice. [Read more…]

After detailed research within the billing and IT community, the agenda for IIR’s forthcoming BSS Summit has been finalised and is available to download today. Be the first to see the exciting line up of speakers, as well as the informative array of learning opportunities that await you in Amsterdam this year. [Read more…]

Comtrend UK, a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced networking solutions for broadband and mobile operators, has appointed Mr Brian Gregory as Director of Sales for the UK and Ireland. [Read more…]

Cartesian, a leading independent technical consulting and IT services company (a wholly owned subsidiary of TMNG Global (Nasdaq: TMNG)), together with DigitalRoute, the leading provider of embedded and standalone mediation and data integration software, have signed a contract with Unitymedia, Europe’s third largest cable-based media and communications services provider based in Cologne, Germany, for the implementation of a turnkey mediation system (DigitalRoute’s MediationZone) coupled with relevant revenue assurance tools (Cartesian’s Ascertain). [Read more…]

HP recently announced that DTAC, one of Thailand’s largest mobile operators, is deploying HP Next Generation Operations Support Systems (HP NGOSS) to reduce internal costs, speed delivery of revenue-generating services and improve service quality. [Read more…]

VOSS, a leader in unified communications (UC) service delivery software, has been named by global analyst organization Gartner, as a Cool Vendor in UC for 2009. VOSS develops solutions for businesses with complex UC and IP telephony delivery requirements; ensuring customers are able to fully benefit from next generation UC. [Read more…]

Mycom, a leading global provider of best-in-class OSS Service Assurance software solutions and innovative ICT engineering services to the telecoms industry, has signed a contract with Thailand’s CAT Telecom Public Company Limited (CAT) for the delivery of its Performance Management software solution, NIMS-PrOptima. [Read more…]

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…]