IPTV OSS in action at Alcatel lab

DALLAS--Syndesis was among the providers of operations and business support systems showcasing its solutions at Alcatel’s Plano-based Operational Support Systems Integration Laboratory this week as select members from TeleManagement World in Dallas took a tour of the facility.

Syndesis is providing a critical component of Alcatel’s triple-play management solution, which supports SBC’s implementation of IPTV. The demonstration will be permanently hosted at Alcatel’s facility, which is dedicated to triple play and IPTV.

Syndesis has integrated its NetProvision service delivery management solution, including automated provisioning and activation, into Alcatel’s new triple-play BSS/OSS solution.

“We have a strategically aligned product portfolio to accelerate the deployment of triple-play services,” said Chris Swan, senior vice president of global sales, marketing and alliances at Syndesis.

Other strategic partners participating in the demonstration are BEA Systems, Cramer and Micromuse. The demo focuses on how pre-integrated OSS/BSS solutions can ensure fast and accurate delivery and quality of triple-play services. The demonstration is applied on Alcatel's end-to-end IPTV solution, which captures premium content from satellite antennas and takes it through an IP-routed and -switched network with access to the customer premises via very high-speed DSL or fiber-to-the-premises terminating on a residential gateway.

“This is the shape of things to come,” Swan said. “This demo is the culmination of very interesting thinking that will shape the way we think about OSS. Alcatel is not alone in this thinking, but they are being very aggressive.”

Syndesis was also part of Alcatel’s announcement this week about new features for its service-aware management portfolio for improving the usability of Ethernet, along with InfoVista and EMC whose products have been pre-certified as part of the Alcatel Connected Partner Program. The new features are based on the Alcatel 5620 Service Aware Manager.

Alcatel and its OSS partners are now positioned to deliver carrier-class, end-to-end Ethernet service provisioning, performance and diagnostics for VPN service deployment.

Service-aware allows providers to quickly build web portals for enterprise customers giving them highly granular bandwidth control and visibility of the Ethernet WAN interconnect. Syndesis' NetProvision product adds convergent service delivery by provisioning and optimizing services across a multi-vendor Ethernet network. InfoVista adds the service-centric performance management capabilities and real-time, Web-based service level reporting. EMC Smarts, technology gained through $260 million acquisition of Smarts early this year, adds automated analysis and impact assessment for real-time root-cause and business-impact analysis across MPLS networks and related domains.