Billing & OSS

Eight winners of the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards were named Wednesday night. The awards recognize the leaders — vendors, service providers and integrators — in the development and deployment of billing and OSS technologies and solutions. The Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award winners named Wednesday night at the Billing & OSS World Expo were: • ...

Competitive local exchange carriers must transform their back offices, too. So One Communications, the largest privately held CLEC in the United States, said this week it has implemented NetCracker Technology’s OSS Service Fulfillment Suite to manage its consumer and business services as it consolidates processes in its growing regional network. One Communications will use the NetCracker solution for the end-to-end ...

Harris Stratex Networks Inc. this week at Billing & OSS World in Chicago formally announced its NetBoss XT management software. The company, which also sells wireless gear, is known for its existing NetBoss solution, which is used by such companies as PAETEC domestically as well as many service providers outside the United States. The new NetBoss XT is a replacement ...

Quality of service is a measure of network performance not customer satisfaction with service quality, said Mike Hollier, CTO of Psytechnics, speaking Wednesday at the Billing & OSS World 2008 Conference and Expo in Chicago regarding delivering superior quality of experience – a term he suggests as the new yardstick for service quality. “QoS is necessary, but not sufficient to ...

In today’s evolving communications and entertainment world, various entities are involved in delivering services and applications to end users. So there’s a need for a common language and infrastructure to be used between content providers, transport providers and retail service providers. A group of companies are working to create a common language through the service delivery framework effort at the ...