Pipeline Publishing, Volume 5, Issue 6
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IMS: the Way to True Convergence?
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transaction becomes final at the end of 2008, both companies will operate independently. Financial details were not disclosed.

Subex's TrueSource, a Data Integrity Management solution, has recently been chosen by Norway's Telenor to help the company provide next generation services. "We selected Subex due to their experience in driving business value through their solutions. TrueSource provided the best solution to meet our requirements of network discovery and more importantly, comparing that information for multiple inventory sources. This is critical to get an accurate end to end view of our services," said Terje Foyn Johannessen, Head of Information Systems at Telenor.

Convergys has decided to expand its OSS/BSS market offerings by acquiring Ceon Corporation, a provider of product lifecycle management and fulfillment software. This expansion of OSS/BSS services available to service provider customers on a global scale may allow Convergys to grab itself a larger piece of the pie. "In our opinion, Convergys' acquisition of Ceon is a great decision that will

This month, we've noticed a slight increase in newsworthy contract wins and product suite adoptions, signaling that many in the industry are hoping to streamline functionality and enhance customer services.



accountability tool to ensure strong results. It is our belief that empowering our customers is the surest way to success." Dot Communications will be paid with a combination of upfront cash and success-based royalties.

Astellia, a company that specialises in the design, production, and marketing of software and hardware solutions to manage Quality of Service, has recently extended its systems portfolio by acquiring a technology from Orange Labs that will allow them to automatically diagnose and provide answers to faults identified in networks. The new tool will be added to Astellia's catalogue of performance management solutions in 2009


enable it to empower carriers to transition to a centralized catalog strategy, bringing order to the chaotic product management process that is so inherent in carrier's OSS and BSS environments," said Ari Banerjee, Director of Enabling Technologies for Yankee Group.

Also in an attempt to get a more filling slice of the sweetness that is OSS, Clarity has purchased a "certain number" of customer contracts and assets of Dot Communications Pty Ltd. that relate to their Viper business. Clarity hopes that the purchases will strengthen their ability to offer customer self-service and wholesale IP provisioning capability. Tony Kalcina, Founder and Executive Director of Clarity comments, "We are strengthening our position in the market with this acquisition and will not only be better placed to provide superior customer solutions for our clients but offer an additional


and the company hopes it will allow it to capitalize on the advantages of automatic, centralized diagnosis in order to win new clients, who will benefit from the improved diagnostics and therefore gain better network quality.

Telcordia has recently appointed Lalit Agrawal as Vice President of India Sales, Service Delivery Solutions. Agrawal has more than 16 years of experience in the Indian telecom industry. "Lalit Agrawal's intimate knowledge of the India communications market coupled with Telcordia's 25 years of communications expertise will ensure that communication service providers have the solutions they need to quickly generate revenue and differentiate in hyper-competitive and hyper-growth markets like India," said Pat Donnelly, Country Head, Telcordia India, Service Delivery Solutions.

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