Bell Canada Goes Live With Cramer

LONDON, TORONTO, and DALLAS -- Cramer, the market leader in inventory-powered automation for telecommunications companies, today announced its enterprise OSS solution has gone into live operation at Bell Canada, the largest communications company in Canada.

The Cramer deployment enables Bell Canada to migrate legacy systems to a consolidated platform to offer efficient delivery of next generation applications and content services to its business and residential customers.

The Cramer solution is supporting Bell Canada's optical initiatives, managing network relationships and configuration information between physical, logical and service layers. More than 200 users are now relying on Cramer to provide network and service provisioning for optical Ethernet offerings, as well as active inventory and capacity management for SONET, PDH, and DWDM networks.

The optical deployments represent the first phase of Bell Canada's Network Inventory Management (NIM) programme, a key component of Bell's transformation to an all-IP network that will enable it to simplify its infrastructure and streamline its OSS, while achieving greater growth and customer satisfaction through value added services. Cramer will continue to fuel the transformation by serving as the hub of the OSS - capturing and automating business processes and delivering flow-through provisioning across all network layers and technologies.

Cramer CEO Jon Craton commented: "Bell Canada's transformation programme is recognised as one of the most exciting and impressive in the industry today. They have a long term vision of unified, enterprise-wide platforms supporting all technologies and services, and Cramer is completely aligned with that vision. The proven ability of our software to be deployed incrementally is a major factor in the success of long term projects."

Cramer Systems Ltd.