Be it through enabling platforms or the resulting customer wins, Hewlett Packard Co. often strives to highlight its role as a wireless player.
With three recent carrier contracts, the company is drawing the attention of the wireless industry again. With its Service Delivery Platform, HP said it will supply SK Telecom of South Korea and TeliaSonera of Sweden with capabilities for third-generation services. Vodafone Netherlands also will use HP’s solution.
“The SDP allows operators to open to third-parties in an agile and simple fashion,” said Joy King, director of worldwide industry marketing for HP network and service provider services.
SK Telecom deployed the HP Mobile E-Services server, which is an integral part of the SDP. It has become a key part of SKT Telecom’s next generation convergence platform.
The HP SDP is a modular, integrated “blueprint” of standards-based software and tools, partner solutions, carrier-grade hardware, and consulting and integration services, according to the company. In addition, it pre-integrates network elements and gateways, common platform functions and a variety of services and delivery processes.
King said HP has a similar arrangement with carrier APBW in Taiwan.
With Vodafone Netherlands, HP is enabling the carrier’s multimedia offering to allow subscribers to receive content in the formats in which they were transmitted. King said her company is partnering with Mobixell of Israel to streamline the transcoding and rendering of content and graphics.
For TeliaSonera, HP is providing its OpenView product as an operation support system solution to ease the burdens in the carrier’s 3G network.
“We manage their fault and document service-level agreements,” said King, adding the system manages up to 100,000 faults and alarms a day.
HP also said it has set up what it describes as two Multimedia Subsystems Experience Centers, one in Grenoble, France, and the other in Richardson, Texas. These will consist of labs that will work on OpenView software, Open Call software, carrier-grade servers and equipment, HP mobile devices, third-party networks and network equipment provider technology.
King said the centers will allow HP and operators to understand and integrate a slew of technologies and equipment to enhance real-time services.
She also said HP has unveiled a mobile device management solution to deploy new software, patches and new services for over-the-air offerings.
“It’s not technology, but solutions that real operators are using,” she remarked.
