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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in March 2008
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jul 02, 2008]
Twenty-two new infrastructure services contracts were announced
by eight vendors in March 2008. The EMEA region featured
heavily as usual, where Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Motorola
each signed multiple agreements.
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HP’s New SCS Portfolio Brings Focus to its Professional Services for Telecom Customers
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| Competitive Update |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jun 27, 2008]
HP’s new SCS portfolio provides focus for HP’s services
capabilities in telecom, placing a greater emphasis on “C” part
of CME (Communications, Media and Entertainment). A byproduct
of this is that it exposes holes in its existing CME messaging.
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NXTcomm 2008: NSN Brings Network Outsourcing to the U.S. with the Acquisition of Embarq’s Network Operation Centers
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jun 16, 2008]
NSN won its (and the industry’s) first
network outsourcing
contract in North America, taking over
Embarq’s NOCs. Embarq
wants to save money and improve
quality; if NSN can deliver, it
has a built-in platform for future
additional business.
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Alcatel-Lucent Takes Managed Services to Next Level with a Key Contract and a New Joint Venture
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jun 10, 2008]
Alcatel-Lucent’s managed network services business is
expanding. Its second large contract in Switzerland will help
it deliver services profitably in central Europe, and its joint
venture with Reliance Communications provides a foothold in
India.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in February 2008
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 30, 2008]
Twenty-one new infrastructure services contracts were announced
by six vendors in February 2008. Incumbent operators featured
in two large-scale outsourcing projects, and several deployment-
related deals were also relatively high in market impact.
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Ericsson Gets Serious about Extending Managed Services to Telco IT
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 22, 2008]
Ericsson’s increased focus on IT-related
managed and
professional services for operators will
increase its
addressable market, while putting it into
more direct
competition with application vendors and
pure integrators.
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Management World 2008: Nortel Delivers Service Assurance with a Little Help from IBM
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 19, 2008]
Nortel’s service assurance solution for
carrier VoIP leverages
Nortel Global Services to simplify
deployment and lower
customer costs and increases its own
share of customer spend,
but some competitors won’t have much
trouble matching the offer.
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HP’s Power Play for EDS Delivers Dubious Synergies
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Business Network Services - U.S., Enterprise Network Systems, Contact Center Solutions, Internet/Managed Services - U.S., Application Infrastructure, Enterprise Communications , Business Telecom Services - Europe, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Mobility - Europe, Enterprise Mobility - U.S., Telecom Services - Asia, Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 16, 2008]
HP’s agreement to shell out big money to
bolster its services
portfolio by acquiring EDS appears a safe,
but expensive and
uninspired move. The synergy is about
additive finances, not
revolutionary new ideas, and IBM’s
position is not threatened.
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Huawei’s 2008 Global Analyst Conference: Global Services Edition
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 08, 2008]
Huawei held its annual Global Analyst
Conference near the end
of April in Shenzhen. It identified services
capabilities as
enabling its “mass customization” value
proposition, while IP
and “platform reuse” were key themes
on the equipment side.
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An Introduction to TIS Market Segment Review: Telecom Infrastructure Services Contracts in 2007
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Apr 21, 2008]
In 2006-2007, telecom vendors
announced nearly 500 contracts
for services-related solutions. On the
vendor side, Ericsson,
Alcatel-Lucent and NSN were most
prominent, with customer
activity strongest in the mobile and EMEA
market segments.
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ECI Proves Its Services Point with 1Net Services--and a New Managed Services Win
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Apr 16, 2008]
ECI’s new services strategy has been validated by a turnkey
managed services contract win. Though not a large customer,
Schiphol Telematics can be a reference for the entire end-to-end
service portfolio that is part of the new ECI 1Net framework.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in January 2008
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Mar 31, 2008]
Twenty-five new infrastructure services
contracts were
announced by twelve telecom vendors
and services firms in
January 2008. Continuing a trend from
the previous month’s
round-up of new contracts, few of these
new deals were low in
market impact.
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Alcatel-Lucent Reaches for OSS Integration Help with Its Acquisition of ReachView Technologies
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| Competitive Update |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Mar 12, 2008]
Alcatel-Lucent’s ReachView acquisition
will improve its
position in service assurance consulting
and integration in the
North American carrier market; it is a
small step toward its
goal of leading the telco-related IT
integration services
market.
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What It Means to Be ‘‘Green:’’ Environmental Responsibility in the Telecom Industry
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| Advisory Report |
Data Management, Business Network Services - U.S., Carrier Infrastructure , Enterprise Network Systems, Broadband Infrastructure , Contact Center Solutions, Internet/Managed Services - U.S., Optical Infrastructure , Wireless Services - Europe, Solutions Assessments, Application Infrastructure, Wireless Infrastructure , Enterprise Communications , Business Telecom Services - Europe, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Mobility - Europe, IP Services Infrastructure, Wholesale Telecom Services , Enterprise Mobility - U.S., Telecom Services - Asia, Digital Media Infrastructure, Telecom Infrastructure Services, Consumer Broadband Services Europe
- BeNeLux, Central Europe, China/Hong Kong, Eastern Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nordics, Pan-Asia, Pan-European, Singapore, Southern Europe, UK/Ireland [Mar 07, 2008]
As Kermit once said, “It’s not easy being
green.” Current
Analysis recognizes the challenges and
opportunities associated
with environmental sustainability and it is
taking a
comprehensive approach to analyzing the
key issues in this
movement.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in December 2007
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Feb 22, 2008]
Seven telecom vendors and services firms
announced twenty-seven new
infrastructure services contracts in
December 2007. More than usual have
at least a “moderate” market impact
rating, with only four contracts given
a “low” impact rating.
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Mobile World Congress 2008: Ericsson Expands Hosting Services with Three New Offerings
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Feb 14, 2008]
Ericsson’s new hosted services add compelling applications to
its portfolio and expand its channels. User-generated content
and advertising are driving strong mobile market interest, but
remain unproven—the typical scenario for hosted solutions.
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Mobile World Congress 2008: NSN Offers to Solve Network Problems Before They Occur
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Feb 12, 2008]
NSN launched a new proactive network maintenance service
designed to stop network faults before they occur. While the
service hits on growing demand for network-level support
services, few details emerged on the tools and processes
involved.
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Ericsson Takes Over TDC’s Mobile Network and More
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| Competitive Update |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Feb 08, 2008]
Ericsson has won a seven-year network
outsourcing contract with
TDC, indicating that its managed services
strategy is starting
to resonate with European incumbents,
which have generally
hesitated to use vendors to run their
networks up to now.
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SOMA Increases its Value to Small Operators with New Global Services Portfolio for Mobile WiMAX
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Feb 04, 2008]
SOMA Networks’ new Global Services portfolio is designed to
help it compete with much larger competitors. Its personal
touch may be attractive to smaller operators, but it cannot
pretend to match the resource scale of the major WiMAX vendors.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in October 2007
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jan 18, 2008]
Twenty-seven services contracts were
announced by seven telecom
vendors and service firms in October,
including several
contract extensions. Fixed network
projects were fairly
visible, while the number of managed
services deals was
somewhat low.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in November 2007
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jan 18, 2008]
Seventeen new infrastructure services contracts were announced
by nine telecom vendors and services firms in November 2007. In
addition to the usual suspects, new deals also featured
Accenture, AIRCOM International, NEC and Sonus Networks.
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Ericsson Unwraps an IPTV Present Just in Time for Christmas, Acquires HyC Group
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| Competitive Update |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Dec 21, 2007]
Ericsson acquired a high-leverage pool of
resources with its
buy-out of the HyC Group. The
professional services firm
doubled in size this year based on its
high-skill talent pool
serving a key growth market: IPTV
network integration services.
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2007 Wrap-Up: The Year in Vendor Services
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Dec 14, 2007]
The vendor services market in 2007 dealt with consolidation
among key competitors, impacting their overall momentum, but
certain segments showed sharp growth. While talk about network-
level services increased, formal solutions have yet to appear.
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Alcatel-Lucent Industry Analyst Workshop: Services Group Moves Forward with ‘‘Network Integrator’’ Strategy
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Dec 07, 2007]
Alcatel-Lucent’s Network Integrator
strategy reaffirms its
commitment to services while providing
its portfolio with some
marketing and operational shape. This
provides a level of
positioning differentiation that rivals are
struggling to
achieve.
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MetaSwitch Wants to Manage Your NOC, Not Just Supply It
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| Competitive Update |
Solutions Assessments, Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Nov 27, 2007]
MetaSwitch has come out with an
outsourced NOC service, adding
operational functions to its existing
professional services
portfolio. To fulfill the offering, it has
engaged Network
Insight, an integrator and managed
services player.
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GTL Climbs the Services Value Chain in Asia-Pacific with Network Optimization Buy
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Nov 19, 2007]
With its acquisition of ADA Cellworks, GTL has increased its
size and its relative brainpower. The investment in skills and
footprint is likely the first of several, given GTL’s newly-
raised market expansion war chest worth USD 300 million.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in September 2007
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Nov 08, 2007]
Twenty-seven services contracts were
announced by ten telecom
vendors and service firms in September.
The “Big Three”
suppliers of global telecom infrastructure
services accounted
for most of the wins, and for nearly all of
the higher impact
deals.
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NSN Services Get Something Old, Something New with Deutsche Telekom Pact
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Oct 25, 2007]
NSN won the largest fixed network outsourcing deal in the
industry, bringing significant revenues and assets but
questionable margins. It also secured an additional piece of
NGN business unrelated to the primary services focus of the
agreement.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in August 2007
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Oct 12, 2007]
Nine telecom vendors and service firms
announced twenty new
services contracts in August 2007. Most
were contract
extensions with existing customers,
although several featured
new service models, including two
outsourcing deals.
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Alcatel-Lucent Continues Development of Its Multivendor Maintenance Services Portfolio
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Oct 02, 2007]
Alcatel-Lucent continues to develop its multivendor maintenance
services for next generation networks to meet operators’
changing needs. Recent customer wins demonstrate market
traction, but the solution appears to be somewhat custom in
nature.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in July 2007
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Sep 26, 2007]
Twenty-two new services contracts were announced by 12 telecom
vendors and service firms in July 2007. Most were equipment-
related, but several were parts of extremely large network
deployments and migrations, with five involving managed
services.
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New Service Center Investments Focus Vendor Resources for Competitiveness
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Sep 10, 2007]
New service center investments often
demonstrate a vendor commitment to
specific regions and customers, but in
other cases, new centers are stocked
with inexperienced staff in low-cost
countries in order to cut the cost of global
service delivery.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in June 2007
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Aug 30, 2007]
Twenty new infrastructure services
contracts were announced by
five telecom vendors and services firms in
June 2007. Following
two months of increased fixed network
services activity, the
focus is once again on mobile wireless
networks and operators,
with managed services particularly in
evidence.
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Monthly Roundup: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in May 2007
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jul 18, 2007]
Nine telecom vendors and services firms
announced twenty-two
new infrastructure services contracts in
May 2007. For the
second month in a row, fixed network
deals outnumbered mobile
operator contracts.
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NXTcomm 2007: Acme Packet Brings Professional Services Features to its SBC Solution
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jun 14, 2007]
Acme Packet launched new professional services to augment its
SBC platform. While leveraging its service organization, the
Net-ASSURE portfolio is tied to a specific product, so it is
more of an added feature than a standalone offering.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in April 2007
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jun 13, 2007]
Eighteen new infrastructure services
contracts were announced
by ten telecom vendors and services
firms in April 2007. For
the first time, fixed network deals
announced during a given
month outnumbered mobile operator
contracts.
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TETRA World Congress: Motorola Launches New Services for Public Safety and Commercial TETRA Networks
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| Show Update |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [Jun 12, 2007]
Motorola’s new value-added services for TETRA network operators
leverage its existing competencies in delivering radio network
planning, optimization, and security services, as well as its
leading position in TETRA systems and devices.
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Monthly Round-up: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in March 2007
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 16, 2007]
Six telecom vendors announced twenty-
three new services contracts in March.
Fixed or converged network-related deals
represented 39% of projects, which is a
higher proportion than in February but
consistent with overall market splits.
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Interop Las Vegas 2007: Nortel Hosts Communications for Service Providers, Enterprises
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Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 16, 2007]
Nortel has crystallized its previously murky hosted
communications story, positioning it as a win-win for service
providers as well as enterprises. The operator retains the
customer relationship while leveraging Nortel’s strong
enterprise brand.
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Huawei’s 2007 Global Industry Analyst Conference: Network Services and More
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| Advisory Report |
Telecom Infrastructure Services
- [May 09, 2007]
At Huawei’s recent analyst conference, network services were
highlighted as a key strategic growth area for the company.
While its resources in this area are impressive, most of its
revenues are still tied to product sales.
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