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Company Overview
Following the merger of Alcatel & Lucent in December 2005, Alcatel-Lucent is one of the largest Telecom Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and is a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and enterprise IP technologies, applications, and services.
With 79,000 employees and operations in more than 130 countries, the company is focused on providing complete end-to-end solutions through it's global services team, one of the largest in the industry. In 2005 Alcatel-Lucent achieved combined sales of Euro 18.6 billion (combined post-merger revenue) and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.
Alcatel-Lucent is organized around five business groups and four geographic regions. The Wireless, Wireline, Convergence groups, which make up the Carrier Business Group, are dedicated to serving the needs of the world's service providers. The Enterprise Business Group focuses on meeting the needs of business customers. The Services Business Group designs, deploys, manages and maintains networks worldwide. The company's geographic regions are Europe and North, Europe and South, North America, and Asia-Pacific.
Alcatel-Lucent's Services group is a major growth engine for the company and central to it's ability to provide E2E solutions, design & consultancy services, OSS/BSS integration and outsourcing / managed services
Amdocs Regions Covered
Global
Amdocs Relationship
Alcatel-Lucent and Amdocs deliver pre-integrated reference solutions along with proven systems integration expertise, to unify the Network, OSS and BSS domains enabling Competitive, Service, Network and Business Transformations for service providers.
"Alcatel-Lucent's strength in next generation networks and in integration initiatives and the turnkey enterprise network resource inventory and service delivery solution with Cramer6 at the core will set a standard for operators' expectations of next-generation service delivery."
-Jean-Pierre Gaillat
Vice-President, OSS, BSS & Software Integration Group | |
Joint Value Proposition
The Amdocs partnership with Alcatel-Lucent has been built on the Alcatel-Cramer Alliance signed in 2002. The Cramer6 product remains Alcatel-Lucent only preferred Inventory product within their OSS, and has now extended into Service Fulfillment and Activation through the introduction of the jointly developed AL8950SF Triple-Play Service Fulfillment Solution built on the Cramer6 platform.
Visit http://www.alcatel-lucent-iptc.com/ to see how Alcatel-Lucent have developed their BSS/OSS Integration Centres with partners such as Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division.
The Partnership is being extended into new areas following the acquisition of Cramer by Amdocs. Alcatel-Lucent is one of Amdocs' strategic Alliance Partners.
Case Studies
Network Rail, UK
Network Rail is the UK's rail operator responsible for all the fixed infrastructure nationally. As part of Alcatel-Lucent's telecom infrastructure, Cramer's inventory is used to model and manage the network services for Network Rail's GSM-R safety system, which allows drivers and signalmen to communicate directly by phone in an emergency. The contract was awarded in October 2005, and has been operation since 2006.
Telekom Austria
"A key strategic goal for our wireline business is to optimize costs and investments in the area of infrastructure and technology. With the Alcatel and Amdocs Cramer joint solution, Telekom Austria will have the required OSS platform to achieve flexibility and process performance as we expand to offer next generation broadband services."
-Helmut Leopold
Managing Director of Product and Technology Management for Telekom Austria | | Telekom Austria is Austria's incumbent telco operator serving over 3 million customer with voice, broadband & TV services. By leveraging Alcatel-Lucent's long standing relationship with Telekom Austria, Amdocs was able to sell a strategic OSSsolution built on the Cramer OSS Suite and utilizing Alcatel's industry-leading equipment and integration expertise. The solution will automate the end-to-end fulfillment of services for Telekom Austria, including "triple play" bundles of voice, video and Internet services. Alcatel and Cramer will deliver complete process automation based on a single inventory core, which allows carriers to accelerate service introduction, to fulfill large volumes of customer orders more quickly and accurately, and to dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership for their operations support systems (OSS).
CFE, Mexico
Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico's national power company, which currently provides electrical service to nearly 80 million Mexicans, is completing deployment of a 22 thousand kilometer fiber optic network across the country, which will be the second largest in Mexico. The transmission infrastructure will serve as the conduit for voice and data that will be delivered using powerline communications (PLC) technology.
The project was awarded to Alcatel-Lucent in Jan 2006, who will act as the prime integrator deploying Amdocs' Cramer6 OSS Suite to model the network and services in CFE's fibre network. Cramer6 OSS Suitewill become the centerpiece of CFE's operations support systems (OSS) environment.
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