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ITU provides platformfor OSS/BSSAmidst the hustle and bustle of ITU Telecom World 2006 held in Decemberlast year there was much of interest for the OSS/BSS sector. George Malimreports from Hong Kong.

Big telecoms shows are always a bit of aworry for OSS/BSS vendors. How do theymake an impact against the million – andoften multi-million dollar noise made by thebig vendors at such events? With difficulty isthe answer and broadly ITU Telecom Worldwas no exception. Western hardwarevendors turned up in their droves salivatingat big equipment deals with massiveChinese operators, while Chinese vendorHuawei was turning its charm right back atthe western operators. However, theOSS/BSS sector did make a big splash thistime, although it has to be said the splash inquestion was largely made by hardwarevendors.

Sun Microsystems announced a new globalco-operation with Ericsson and Nokia thataims to unite the Network EquipmentProvider (NEP) community and assisttelecommunications operators and serviceproviders. Coming together as theTelecommunications Platform Initiative,members are jointly developing therequirements for a standardised, integratedtelecommunications technology platform to

simplify technology integration by enablingdesign, development and supply chainefficiencies.

"Ericsson is pleased to be a part of thiscollaborative community which is bringingus together to advance the industry as awhole," said Torbjorn Lundahl, vicepresident of Ericsson Multimedia Systems."With the backing of key NEPs and theadvantage of Sun's community-buildingexperience and in-depth understanding ofopen technologies, I am confident that thiseffort will lead to a much stronger industryalignment and bring major benefits to ourcustomers."

Jyrki Holmala, vice president, OSS Software,Networks, Nokia said: "TheTelecommunications Platform Initiativerecognises thattechnologyintegration is acommonchallenge for allNEPs and showsour willingness

Andrey Morozov,president and CEO ofCBOSS.

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Carriers welcomed the move; "We are facedwith huge integration issues today when wepurchase solutions from multiple NEPs,"said Javier Gutierrez, Enablers Developmentsenior manager of Telefónica MovilesEspaña. "The results of the newly formedTelecommunications Platform Initiative willhelp us simplify platform management,allowing us to focus more on rapidlylaunching innovative services for ourcustomers."

Away from the headline announcements itwas business as usual for the OSS industry.CBOSS, the Russian OSS provider, nowfamed for its dancing girls almost as muchas its huge Asian customer-base, waspresent in force. Andrey Morozov, presidentand CEO of the company, was happy to seelarge IT players becoming interested in theOSS/BSS market and explained CBOSS’thinking in this regard; “If we divide

operators’ businesses into two new areas wecan recognise there’s a division between ITand the network,” he said. “Today, CBOSS istrying to be able to answer a question aboutthe unique, most wide understanding of theIT part of the operator’s business.Regardless of whether an operator has aborder between the network and the IT part,CBOSS is able to supply turnkey, integratedsolutions to operate any part of theirbusiness. What does that mean? It meanswe’re able to eliminate all expenditure onsystems integrators by a service provider.”

Morozov went on to explain how CBOSS hasdeveloped its business. “We, in CBOSS, hadthe idea to create all the IT parts of theOSS/BSS but, if operators liked they didn’thave to take all the parts, if they did like, theycould get a fully managed, integratedsolution from one supplier – pre-integratedto support all their needs,” he said. “Someexperts at 3GSM six years ago said wewould never succeed. They said; “Operatorsare a big cash cow surrounded by a crowd ofwolves and each wolf wants to eat. The otherwolves won’t let you eat the whole cow.They’ll destroy you and you won’t be able todeliver.” Well, we were the hungriest wolf.”

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