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COMMENT George Malim, editor, VanillaPlus The virtual world is exhausting me – physically This issue neatly brings together three key functional areas – analytics, network performance management and virtualisation. The first two are vital parts of making the third happen but the list of tasks to complete to achieve virtualisation is long T here’s a danger that the length of this list could cause a kind of paralysis. There’s just so much to do, so where to start is bewildering and then we come back to the idea of communications service providers’ transformation efforts being like trying to eat an elephant with a fork. I don’t think we’re in that situation anymore. Yes, there is an ocean to boil, but we have large vats and industrial burners so we can at least make parts of the ocean hot, rather than attempting to do it all at once. This breaking down of the virtualisation into manageable, measurable and achievable chunks is partly what analytics and network performance management are enabling. These technologies provide the checks and balances to ensure virtualisation deployments are working as expected, the quality of experience is there and the lessons are being learned – often by machines – to enable tested systems to scale up for the mega-volumes of the virtualised era. The era of the proof of concept is over. There have, probably, been too many but now we’re in the time of the request for proposals. We’re on the launchpad at last, and that can only be a good thing, especially now we’re armed with the technologies that are automated and have intelligence. We must now let the machines go out and learn this new terrain. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean we’ll be sitting back while the machines take the strain. The virtualised world, though automated and increasingly managed by machines, still has stresses to exert on the physical world. Enjoy the magazine! George Malim EDITORIAL ADVISORS Louis Hall, chief executive, Cerillion Technologies Laurent Leboucher. vice president of APIs and digital systems, Orange Simon Muderack, senior vice president for Marketing and Alliances, Sigma Systems David Heaps, senior vice president, Strategy, CSG International Martin Morgan, vice president of Marketing, Openet Chris Newton-Smith, chief marketing officer, Redknee MANAGING EDITOR George Malim Tel: +44 (0) 1225 319 566 george@vanillaplus.com DIGITAL SERVICES DIRECTOR Nathalie Millar Tel: +44 (0) 1732 808690 n.millar@wkm-global.com DESIGN Jason Appleby Ark Design Consultancy Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1787 881623 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Jeremy Cowan Tel: +44 (0) 1420 588638 j.cowan@wkm-global.com HEAD OF BRAND Mark Bridges Tel: +44 (0)1622 669 816 mark@vanillaplus.com BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Cherisse Jameson Tel: +44 (0) 1732 807410 c.jameson@wkm-global.com DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PLANNING Charlie Bisnar Tel: +44 (0) 1732 807411 c.bisnar@wkm-global.com PUBLISHED BY Prestige Media Ltd. Suite 138, 70 Churchill Square, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4YU, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1732 807411 DISTRIBUTION UK Postings Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 8456 444137 Justin Paul, head of OSS Marketing, Amdocs Aileen Smith, Head of ecosystem development, Huawei Service Provider Operations Lab VanillaPlus is distributed free to selected named individuals worldwide who meet the Publisher's terms of Circulation Control. If you would like to apply for a regular free copy supplied at the Publisher's discretion visit www.vanillaplus.com If you do not qualify for a free subscription, paid subscriptions can be obtained. Subscriptions for 5 issues cost £99.00 worldwide (or US$150 / EUR125) including post and packing. VanillaPlus magazine is published 5 times per year. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, stored, published or in any way reproduced without the prior written consent of the Publisher © Prestige Media Ltd 2016 Chris Yeadon, director of Product Marketing, Ericsson Dr Reinhard Zuba, CMO, Vipnet (Telekom Austria) 4 VANILLAPLUS MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2016
INDUSTRY NEWS InfoVista to buy Ascom’s TEMS business including network testing and optimisation InfoVista has announced a binding agreement to acquire Ascom’s TEMS business which incorporates the vendor’s network testing, monitoring and optimisation offerings. Deployed by the world’s top 20 mobile network operators, major infrastructure suppliers and network engineering services providers, TEMS solutions monitor wireless networks and assure quality of service while optimising performance. InfoVista’s acquisition of TEMS will strengthen its ability to offer innovative solutions for mobile network performance analytics, indoor network design and optimisation, and active service testing. InfoVista was recently acquired by private equity investment firm Apax Partners, with the stated aim of establishing InfoVista as a leader in the network performance orchestration software market. The acquisition of TEMS will be a significant step towards that goal. It will see InfoVista nearly double in size, with approximately US$200m in revenue and improve the group’s global presence, particularly in the USA and in Asia. The acquisition of TEMS will complement InfoVista’s recent acquisitions of Mentum, Aexio and Ipanema, broadening the amount of network data and intelligence that can be used to improve network, applications and user experience. “TEMS is a well-established and wellrespected business that already helps most of the world’s largest mobile network operators to manage and optimise the “TEMS is a well-established and well-respected business that already helps most of the world’s largest mobile network operators” Philippe Ozanian: Adding TEMS to InfoVista creates a more scalable platform for network performance orchestration capacity and quality of their wireless networks,” said Philippe Ozanian, the chief executive of InfoVista. “By bringing the TEMS portfolio into InfoVista, we are creating the most scalable, powerful and flexible platform for network performance orchestration to CSPs, mobile operators and enterprises.” Volaris acquires Active Broadband Network’s OSS business Volaris Group has acquired Boston-based Active Broadband Networks (ABN) Operations Support Systems (OSS) solutions business. The acquisition is Volaris’ third acquisition in the communications vertical market. ABN develops OSS solutions that help communication service providers (CSPs) analyse subscriber-based broadband habits and dynamically bill them based on their usage. ABN has customers in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. The deal sees the ABN business line become a business unit of Incognito Software Systems which is part of the Volaris Group and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. “We are eager to grow our solution suite and customer base through acquisition,” said Stephane Bourque, the chief executive of Incognito. “ABN’s products provide us with the opportunity to offer innovative new solutions to help our customers analyse and monetise the very high demand for data services from their broadband subscribers.” Stephane Bourque: Eager to grow through acquisition VANILLAPLUS MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2016 5
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