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China : TELEFONICA OSS contract secured by Huawei [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Huawei secured a contract to provide OSS equipment to Telefonica in Latin America. Telefonica has an extensive footprint in the region together with but not limited to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay and its partnership with Huawei includes all of its subsidiaries there. The contract will observe the Chinese vendor supply Telefonica with its Performance Management Solution, which will support the telco's ongoing OSS simplification strategy by giving it an all-encompassing, unified means of managing its mobile and fixed infrastructure. Juan Manuel Caro Bernat, operations and OSS director at Telefonica, in a statement said, "Telefonica's OSS simplification strategy is based on the standardisation, simplification and automation of the processes and technologies across our footprint . He said, "We are selecting the best partners in the market to help us in this journey. Huawei is our strategic and reliable partner, and I believe that our cooperation with Huawei will continue to be fruitful and profitable in the future . Huawei in addition also declared plans to ramp up investment in its professional services business. The division concentrates resources on five areas: consulting and systems integration; open digital operations; building open cooperative ecosystems; big data and user experience management; and migrating from traditional BSS/OSS to what Huawei calls 'telco OS evolution'. Leroy Blimegger, SVP of Huawei global technical services, in a statement that did not disclose specific figures "Today we are announcing significantly increased investment into this . He said, "With user behaviour changes revolutionising the way digital resources are consumed, operators have to decide the steps to take to enable the evolution of network architectures, operation models and more effective industry collaboration . Its spending plan covers a 3 year period and began earlier this year with the launch of two new labs, one based in China that aims on network functions virtualisation (NFV) and another in Ireland that addresses service provider operations. The investment will in addition fund a new system integration centre in North America, a new integrated OSS/BSS platform slated for launch in 2015, and the upgrade of one of its network operations centres (NOC) into what it calls an ICT-based application operations centre. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |