Agilent Technologies Announces Plan to Lead High-Growth Global OSS Market; Company Leverages Expertise to Accelerate Next-Generation Communications with Comprehensive Solutions.Business Editors and High Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2001 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : A) today announced plans to deliver a suite of comprehensive, integrated 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. solutions and services for the measurement, monitoring and management of traditional and next-generation wireline, wireless and Internet networks. Agilent's acquisition earlier this year of OSI (1) (Open System Interconnection) An ISO standard for worldwide communications that defines a framework for implementing protocols in seven layers. Control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the application layer in one station, proceeding to the (Objective Systems Integrators Inc.), a leading OSS provider, is part of its strategy to become a world-class solutions provider in the growing market for 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 (OSS) in the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . "We will provide an integrated and comprehensive product and service portfolio that enables service providers to rapidly deploy next-generation networks and services, increase customer satisfaction, and accelerate return on investment," said Keith Miller
Keith Ross Miller, MBE (28 November 1919-11 October 2004), was a famous Australian Test cricketer and World War II pilot. , vice president and general manager of Agilent's Communications Management Communications management is the systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all the channels of communication within an organization, and between organizations; it also includes the organization and dissemination of new communication directives connected with an Solutions Business Unit. "This approach will position Agilent as the vendor of choice for managing network and service assurance, delivery and usage." The strategy leverages Agilent's extensive OSS portfolio, which includes solutions, services and support for the management of service level agreements (SLAs), quality of service (QoS), business intelligence, provisioning, process and workflow, fiber plant, wireless roaming and e-commerce. Agilent also will use the Unified Management Architecture (UMA (1) (Unlicensed Mobile Access) See GAN. (2) (Upper Memory Area) Memory in a PC between 640K and 1M. More relevant in the days of DOS, this region was broken into Upper Memory Blocks (UMB) reserved for video memory and other ), a proven intelligent OSS platform, to integrate both Agilent and other OSS products. The integration enabled by UMA and Agilent's expertise will allow service providers to maximize ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). on their investments in converging technologies. The final point in the strategy builds on Agilent's capabilities for tailoring solutions to individual customer needs. Agilent will leverage its experience in project management, consulting, education and support, and its long-term customer relationships with more than 400 service providers worldwide. Based on projections by The Gartner Group(1), Agilent estimates that communications companies will invest more than $30 billion in OSS products over the next four years. The company already has strong positions in several areas of the OSS market, including world leadership in network management using signaling data with the Agilent acceSS7 products. New Agilent integrated OSS solutions to be shown at Supercomm (booths 4432 and 2432) include the Call Performance Manager, the Intelligent Network Monitoring System and the NgN Service Level Manager. Agilent in Communications Agilent Technologies is a leading provider of components, test, measurement, monitoring and management solutions for the communications industry. Agilent enables designers, manufacturers and service providers to accelerate the delivery of next-generation devices, networks and services. Agilent's broad set of solutions and services includes optical, wireless, Internet and broadband technologies that span the entire communications lifecycle. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. With 48,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent had net revenue of $10.8 billion in fiscal year 2000. Information about Agilent can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. (1) Based on Gartner Group's "Global Communications Industry IT Spending Forecasts: 1999 through 2004" dated March 5, 2001. |
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