DALLAS -- NetCracker Technology announced today that it has completed Phase III of the NGOSS Catalyst Project, which will be demonstrated live at TeleManagement World Americas, the world's largest OSS/BSS exhibition, taking place from December 4-7 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas.

Catalyst Project Background

The Catalyst Project, sponsored by France Telecom, focuses on implementing standards-based OSS for accelerating the delivery of converged products. NetCracker joined the project at the onset of Phase III to broaden its scope. The project will demonstrate how it has created a holistic solution by bringing together elements of network and IT infrastructure, product and service catalog, and end-to-end fulfillment including order management, provisioning and activation, and inventory. The demonstration will also prove the co-existence of all the elements in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and will further accelerate the development of standards and guidelines for NGOSS, including IMS/SDP.

The lines between the network-centric world and the IT world are converging, and this project demonstrates the significant benefits that NetCracker products bring to NGN architectures. Two key areas that NetCracker addresses in relationship to converged networks are:

Configuring the Generic User Profile (GUP) server as the federated system of the IMS HSS, Wireline network elements, etc. Extending the TMF SID model to cover user-facing service configuration In addition to contributing to the growing body of OSS standards, NetCracker will likely propose that the concept of the User-Facing Service model to support 3GPP's Generic User Profile be included in the next logical release of TM Forum's SID.

"NetCracker's OSS strategy will continue to align with TMF standards by providing a focus on subscription and identity management, applying more IT service management to OSS, bringing IMS-based NGN elements into the OSS view, and integrating a service creation environment into service delivery," said Andrew Feinberg, NetCracker's president and CEO.

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