Aricent Unveils OSS / BSS Innovation Lab for Enhancing Service Provider Operations

Aricent, a global innovation, technology and services company announced a new facility and associated services aimed at helping service providers architect and implement the latest in multi-vendor Operational Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS) technology. Based upon a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach, the lab highlights how service providers can evolve their existing OSS / BSS solutions as well as rapidly implement new OSS / BSS components in support of advanced services and 4G. Aricent's new Innovation Lab is designed to help operators assess, develop and deploy new business models and improve the overall customer experience.

One example of the frameworks and services available through Aricent's Innovation Lab is a WiMAX reference architecture. Aricent's pre-packaged OSS / BSS solution for WiMAX can enable operators to accelerate time-to-revenue and quickly monetize new 4G services in emerging markets. This solution addresses the fundamental need among WiMAX operators to minimize capital expenditures, while investing in a solution that can scale and adapt to the evolution of new product offerings and business models.

"Aricent's extensive expertise in end-to-end OSS / BSS system integration is evidenced by the fully integrated order management process for WiMAX and Triple Play solutions," said Chun-Ling Woon, vice president of marketing and business development at ConceptWave. "The pre-packaged OSS / BSS solution fully utilizes the ConceptWave Order Management product set and can be conveniently demonstrated to interested operators in the Aricent Innovation Lab."

Advances in mobile devices and connected consumer electronics, new wireless broadband technologies including Femtocells, WiMAX and LTE and a wave of Web 2.0 and cloud-based services are driving significant changes in carriers' OSS / BSS implementations. Aricent's OSS / BSS Innovation Lab helps service providers overcome a number of related challenges, including:

The Aricent Innovation lab is initially equipped with COTS products from leading partners including ConceptWave, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Telcordia. The lab also includes a number of Aricent software products and frameworks, which enable faster roll out of a variety of new services. Aricent will expand the number of partner products that will be integrated in the lab as the partner program continues to grow.

"Aricent has deep domain expertise in wireless and wireline networks, a thorough understanding of OSS and BSS processes and a 15-year heritage working with the leading infrastructure vendors," said Ajay Gupta, sr. vice president at Aricent. "This, combined with a vast and proven implementation capability, makes us a uniquely qualified partner for operators deploying and commercializing new broadband technologies."