Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. Winter chill is in the air and that means it’s the end of the year and a time for reflection on the past year, which usually means giving out awards. NetCracker, Redknee, and Procera Networks have won awards for their work this year. For these stories and more, click the links below.
- AT&T will install the ‘Lookout’ security app on all of its Android smartphones.
- Gartner named NetCracker a leader in the Magic Quadrant for operations support systems.
- Google touts its ‘Mobile Backend Starter’ cloud solution.
- Redknee is the recipient of the 2013 Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan Award for Global Growth Leadership in Communications Service Provider (CSP) billing.
- Isis, the mobile payments venture formed by AT&T, Verizon, & T-Mobile rolls out nationwide this week.
- Huawei rolls out its open cloud fabric and ecosystem strategy for data centers.
- Alcatel-Lucent hopes to empower mobile operators to enhance network planning, service offerings and customer satisfaction with its new Motive Big Network Analytics solution.
- Mavenir Systems, Inc. has gone public.
- Astellia, a provider of network and subscriber intelligence for mobile operators, announced a CEM and network monitoring deal with BASE Company, Belgium.
- SDN Middleman: A second look at Juniper’s MetaFabric.
- Hong Kong-based Pacnet become more agile with SDN targeted at enterprise customers.
- Deutsche Telekom boosts datacenters, which some speculate is part of its long-term SDN strategy.
- CenturyLink works hard toward eliminating legacy systems and moving toward BSS/OSS.
- Gigaom thinks the future of integration systems is prescriptive rather than descriptive.
- AT&T’s research into small cell/hetnet has created the HetNet and Resource Planning (HARP) software tool.
- The deep packet inspection (DPI) specialist Procera Networks partners with Avvasi to offer mobile operators QoE Management & Analytics.
- Radisys’ Q3 results were affected by a delayed order from an overseas carrier.
- Â Remember the buggy new billing software from US Cellular we reported? Turns out it was necessary for the carrier’s iPhone launch.
- Read this compelling feature on why BSS is driving innovation.
- This reporter thinks Android phones are still a magnet for malware.
