Fujitsu & Syndesis team: for a slice of Telstra's OSS spend?

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:41

IT Industry - Strategy

Fujitsu and Syndesis, a provider of convergent service delivery management, are to jointly market their products and services in the Asia Pacific region.

The move comes as Telstra announces plans to spend millions of dollars upgrading and rationalising its BSS/OSS.

The two companies will set up "world-class, customer-facing operational support system (OSS) lab" that will showcase, among other things, a live multi-technology, provisioning-activation solution powered by Syndesis NetProvision and a data integrity management solution powered by Syndesis TrueSource. Fujitsu will house and staff the lab which will be located in Burwood, Melbourne and will manage customer engagements and implementations as an independent software vendor.

Paul Fleming, executive general manager, applications and services, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, said: "Together, Fujitsu and Syndesis will work with leading service providers in Australia to provide network-aware service delivery management solutions that will enable efficiencies in fulfilment, continuous inventory accuracy and the ability to optimise network deployments."

Gary Foster, manager OSS technologies, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, added: "With service provider's transitioning to next generation triple play broadband architectures, the need for cost effective, scaleable OSS solutions has never been greater. With these types of networks, the OSS focus more than ever is on new service activation and existing service migration, and ensuring tight integration with service assurance and inventory management."

Syndesis claims to be "vendor of choice" in OSS deployments at more than 20 major service providers worldwide including Bell Canada, BT, Cingular, MCI, Qwest, SBC, Sprint, Swisscom, Telecom Italia, Telefónica Empresas, TELUS and Verizon Wireless.