Telcordia White Paper Identifies Network Evolution Solutions for Industry-Wide Network Equipment Information Challenge



    Telcordia, a global leader in the development of IP, wireless, and
    mobile telecommunication software and services, today announced the
    availability of a white paper that explains the importance of an
    industry-wide approach to the network equipment information challenge.
    The white paper, titled Network Evolution - Boosting Services and
    Profits by Solving the Network Equipment Information Challenge, is
    available as a free download at www.telcordia.com/eiwp and designed to
    help equipment suppliers and service providers address the challenge
    of tracking vast network inventories and the lifecycle status of each
    network element.

    "Telcordia is focused on educating service providers worldwide
    about how they can transform their businesses, including developing
    methods for reducing network inefficiencies and wasted resources in
    the process," said Allen Seidman, vice president of business
    development and marketing, Operations and Transformation Solutions,
    Telcordia. "This whitepaper proposes a highly accurate, highly
    efficient, information service that frees service providers to focus
    on profitably delivering value-added, differentiated services to their
    customers."

    The network equipment information challenge results from
    operators, suppliers and systems using different equipment identifiers
    and tracking different sets of attributes that complicate the supply
    chain and network lifecycle management. This disorganized glut of
    information wastes time and money, undermining service providers'
    competitive positions and diverting resources that could otherwise be
    used to develop innovative, revenue-generating services.

    The white paper describes the symptoms of ineffective network
    equipment information management, identifies the root causes, explains
    why current management methods are not solving the problem and why an
    industry-wide approach to the network equipment information challenge
    is optimal. It proposes a centralized, standardized equipment
    identification system that will enable service providers to reduce
    investment in spare equipment by up to 15 percent and reduce data
    mapping and conversion efforts by up to 92 percent. These
    standardized, streamlined processes directly benefit service
    providers' competitive and financial positions.

    To learn more about this subject, please visit
    www.telcordia.com/eiwp to download the full white paper. Visit
    Telcordia in City View 7 meeting room (4th floor) at the TM Forum
    Management World Americas from November 5-8 to learn more about how
    Telcordia can provide solutions to solve your equipment information
    challenges.

    About Telcordia

    Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of
    telecommunications network software and services for IP, wireline,
    wireless, and cable. As the industry continuously evolves, Telcordia
    has the experience and reach to deliver the critical elements of
    success to help communication providers worldwide deploy innovative
    and profitable new services via any network or device while helping
    carriers aggressively reduce costs and grow revenues. Telcordia is
    headquartered in Piscataway, N.J, with offices throughout North
    America, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com).