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IBM has completed its acquisition
of Vallent. The Bellvue, WA-based
performance monitoring company
has around 400 employees and 200
clients, worldwide. This represents
yet another move by IBM into the
service management space, adding
Vallent’s strengths to those
gleaned from Micromuse.
TTI announced
a follow-on order said to be worth
around $1.5 million from a major
North American wireless operator.
The money goes towards an upgrade
to the company’s
fault management solution, as well
as a maintenance contract. In addition,
TTI put out releases touting its
new API Gateway, which is said to
streamline OSS integration. One
supposes that TTI realizes that
follow-on orders will pay the bills,
but without innovation, things can
get a little stagnant.
Cisco made some investors happy
with its Q2 numbers. Net sales were
up 27.3%, net income was up 39.7%,
and earnings per share was up 40.7%.
(And just before Valentine’s
Day. How sweet.)
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Net
sales were up 27.3%, net income
was up 39.7%, and earnings per share
were up 40.7%. (And just before
Valentine’s Day. How sweet.)
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Sigma has
announced a customer win with
Eastlink, Canada’s fifth
largest cable provider. The group
will be licensing Sigma’s
Service Management Platform
for telephone and internet services
to homes and businesses across
eastern Canada.
Oracle announced
its Service Delivery Platform
Partner Initiative. “Sharing
a common vision for standards-based
service delivery,” the
release states, “Oracle
and its partners have joined
forces to collaborate and
provide an expanded source
of solutions to the communications
industry. Partners including
Independent Software Vendors
(ISVs), infrastructure vendors,
and System Integrators (SIs),
can benefit from this initiative
by using the Oracle SDP to
deliver comprehensive, standards-based
solutions to their customers.”
This announcement came out the same
day as the announcement of an Oracle
customer win with FASTWEB and the
release of the Oracle Communication
and Mobility Server.
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On the IMS front, Tango Telecom has
released a suite of IMS enablers. In
addition, Tango has teamed with Comarch
to launch a new converged billing solution.
The fact that I can avoid an ‘it
takes two’ joke on this release
shows remarkable restraint on my part,
but the news is certainly good for Tango.
FTS has been busy. It has announced
partnerships with Allot and HP, launched
a BCE mobile edition, and acquired North
American customers and personnel from
Danet, Inc. While FTS is still dwarfed
in size by many a vendor, it seems that
the firm is making considerable progress
in changing all that.
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Evolving Systems launched its Tertio
7 Service Activation at 3GSM. The
firm touts the Tertio suite as number
1 in wireless service activation,
as selected by Yankee Group.
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