Acterna, Formerly TTC And WWG, And Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Announce Strategic Alliance.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000 Test and Service Management OSSs will be Integrated with other OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. Software to Streamline Network Provisioning Network provisioning or Service mediation are terms referring to provisioning of the customer’s services to the network elements, mostly used in the telecommunication industry. and Maintenance Acterna, the new company formed by the May 23, 2000, merger of TTC TTC Trying To Conceive TTC Toronto Transit Commission TTC Trans Texas Corridor TTC Toutes Taxes Comprises (French) TTC Trident Technical College (North Charleston, SC) TTC Temporary Traffic Control and Wavetek Wandel Goltermann (WWG WWG World Wide Group (WWDB) WWG Windward Group WWG Weapons Working Group WWG Warranty Working Group WWG Weather Wing ), and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young today announced a strategic alliance to provide integrated service fulfillment and assurance solutions to CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) , wireless and IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. service providers, dramatically improving the operation of next-generation networks. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, a leading provider of OSS software integration services, will team with Acterna to provide software integration and implementation services for Acterna's NetAnalyst test management OSS and NetOptimize service management OSS suite. Through this alliance, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young will integrate Acterna's software with OSS products from other vendors, such as MetaSolv Software's TBS, to create turnkey solutions. As a result, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and Acterna will deliver solutions that enable automated flow-through provisioning and service assurance. "Integrating OSSs from multiple vendors enables our customers to select best-in-class software products," said Jim Shea, Acterna's vice president of marketing, Systems and Software Group. "Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is a leader in OSS integration, and Acterna is excited to be joining forces with them to create complete solutions for our customers." "Acterna offers solutions for service activation, QoS/SLA management, network capacity management, and test management," said Renee Domhoff, vice president of OSS Technologies, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. "By integrating these OSSs with OSSs from our other alliance partners, we will be able to deliver flow-through solutions that streamline service provider operations." Acterna's solutions are components of its Service Optimization Framework that enables automated service fulfillment and service assurance for telecommunications service providers globally. Capabilities afforded by Acterna's solution include integrated test and monitoring; quality of service (QoS) and service level agreement (SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. ) management, capacity management, alarm management, and service activation. Each OSS provides open, standard CORBA-based interfaces to external order management, order entry, trouble-ticketing systems and inventory databases. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young offers services that focus on business strategy, operations, and people and information management. The firm's services include development of customized software See custom software. and systems-integration projects that are conducted in partnership with hardware manufacturers, software companies and other partners, where Cap Gemini Ernst & Young drafts specifications, designs the architecture and handles the development and implementation of the new system. About Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is one of the largest management and IT consulting firms in the world. The company offers management and IT consulting services, systems integration, and technology development, design and outsourcing capabilities on a global scale to help traditional businesses and "dot companies" continue to explore growth strategies in the new economy. The newly formed organization employs more than 57,000 people worldwide and reports global revenues of 7.7 billion euros (1999 pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts. The phrase pro forma ). For more information about Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, visit the company's Web site at: www.capgemini.com. About Acterna Acterna, offering a wide range of solutions that optimize communications systems and networks, was formed by the May 23, 2000, merger of Wavetek Wandel Goltermann and TTC, the communications test industry's second and third largest companies. Acterna is a subsidiary of Acterna Corporation, formerly Dynatech (OTC-BB: DYNA). Acterna enables its customers to strengthen profitability by improving service to their customers through the widest range of network analyzers, systems, software, strategic services and technical training available in the industry. Customers include service providers, enterprises and equipment manufacturers. They use the company's products to develop, install and maintain their data, voice, wireless, optical, cable, access and Internet protocol-based networks. Acterna, headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, USA, is present in more than 80 countries and employs 4,000 people worldwide. For more information, please visit Acterna's merger Web site at www.power2lead.com. Note to editors: All company or product names mentioned in this news release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. TTC is a registered trademark of Acterna, formerly TTC and WWG, a division of Acterna Corp., formerly Dynatech Corp. Customer and product-related inquiries should be directed to 800/638-2049. Glossary: CLEC - competitive local exchange carrier; CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global - common object request broker architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. ; IXC - interexchange carrier See IXC. ; OSS - operations support systems Operations Support Systems (also called Operational Support Systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers. The term OSS most frequently describes "network systems" dealing with the telecom network itself, supporting processes such , QoS - quality of service; SLA - service level agreement. |
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