Archive | February, 2009

Comptel Real-Time OSS Benchmark with IBM

Comptel this week issued a PR about their recent benchmark results with IBM. It's a bit different from the Cramer OSS benchmark I wrote about a few weeks back when looking at a new BSS benchmark, also on IBM kit. For starters, Comptel's transactions are more billing and mediation than service design and provisioning. Secondly, […]

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NetCracker Win at Intelsat

It says here: "Intelsat, the world’s leading fixed satellite services provider, has selected NetCracker Technology software and services to improve the automation of its service delivery processes." This is presumably addressing provisioning in the 'service layer' as satellite operators don't have a huge amount of fixed line network, not enough to spend much on OSS. […]

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OSS and Data Migration Scalability – It’s Not Just About CPUs

I proudly discussed my finely crafted SQL statements in a previous post about Celona and data migration. The need to invest quite some time in learning a few more SQL tricks and building logically complex and very large single SQL commands (as opposed to conceptually simpler procedural PL/SQL routines) came about because I was trying […]

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