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Soapstone Networks:
Avici Networks was active in the core router business for years, and was successful, if perhaps a bit too reliant on AT&T as a core customer. Last year, it launched its Soapstone Networks business unit, leveraging Avici's core router competency, but developing software that creates an abstraction layer between the services and the infrastructure. Earlier this year, they announced that all of Avici was moving under the Soapstone umbrella, and that the entire company was focusing on developing, promoting, and selling this software.
At NXTcomm, Soapstone was on the scene and fully branded as such. They were promoting their PNC (Provider Network Controller) solution in a multi-vendor Carrier Ethernet demonstration. The demo included Amdocs Cramer OSS, which was essentially deconstructing a service into components, establishing quality criteria for those resources, and conveying a description to the PNC. The whole process employed TMForum standards and was NGOSS compliant.
Soapstone Networks is definitely a company to watch in the future. With capital on hand from its Avici days, and the vision and courage to reinvent itself as a brand new type of company, it may have a bright future.
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"...we wanted to take some time to highlight some companies we visited on the expo floor, and let you know a little about where they've been and where they're going."
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Tekelec also has good things to say about the future of SMS, including sponsored SMS services. The sponsored SMS is just another example of the alternative monetization that is necessary for service providers to continue to be viable as their role in the space changes.
ANDA/Nakina:
ANDA Networks was present at the show along with Nakina, as they promoted their partnership to jointly develop and market Nakina's carrier-grade, multi-vendor, multi-technology network management solution for managing ANDA Networks' EtherTone® Ethernet access product portfolio. The two had been working together in other capacities for some time now, but this particular partnership represents a neat development in their apparently mutually beneficial relationship. The partnership also allows Nakina to maintain its multi-vendor approach, which ANDA will actively encourage.
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Tekelec:
The company, whose sweet spot is multimedia session control and network intelligence, was promoting its partnership with Verisign to deliver a solution for provisioning routing data across multiple service providers. Peered service networks are certainly a strong path toward enhanced voice and video, and peering requires interoperability between two points in the network. According to Tekelec: "authoritative third-party peer-registry services, such as the VeriSign Network Routing Directory, and third-party ENUM address resolution platforms such as Tekelec's TekPath Route Director."
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Atvent:
Atvent Solutions was at the event promoting the newest version of its MobileNet solution. The OSS package hosts tailored application bundles and is armed with the ability to allow technicians to wirelessly access real-time information in order to provide preventive maintenance, quality assurance, and rapid service calls. The solution is also useful for construction, including network extension or rebuilds. Atvent is also interesting, because it's been dabbling in SaaS since the phrase was hardly the buzzword it is today. According to
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