Alcatel and Telcordia Forge Alliance to Drive Innovation in Global OSS Market Alcatel at Telecom 99 -- Hall 4, Stand No. 210
PR Newswire, Tuesday, October 12, 1999 at 08:19
GENEVA, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In an aggressive move to gain a leadership
position in the high-growth, multi-vendor global 0peration Support Systems
(OSS) market, Alcatel (NYSE:ALA) and Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (formerly
Bellcore) have entered into a strategic alliance to offer complete,
integrated, multi-domain solutions to traditional and emerging carriers
worldwide.
The alliance builds on the complementary strengths of the two companies by
combining the global presence of Alcatel with the OSS expertise of Telcordia
Technologies to drive innovation in a highly competitive global carrier
environment.
Alcatel has a strong global presence and has created significant business
in integrated operational support systems for sophisticated multi-domain,
heterogeneous telecommunications networks. A key element of Alcatel's
strategy is to develop its presence in a market that is showing explosive
growth for service-oriented networks by becoming a leading full service
supplier of OSS and value added service solutions worldwide.
Telcordia Technologies is the world's largest provider of OSS, network
software, consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications
industry. Telcordia is focused on applying advanced technology to create the
robust, "industrial-strength" communications networks of the future.
Telcordia Technologies is CMM Level 5 certified and offers high technology
software solutions to meet a wide range of communications needs.
Welcoming the agreement, Krish Prabhu, COO of Alcatel Telecom, commented:
"We have analysed the dynamics of the OSS market for the next century. The
explosion of services offered by the telcos, the diversity of technologies,
plus the multiplicity of competing operators, will fuel an enormous need for
modern, fully-automated yet extremely flexible operation support systems.
Both companies have reached the conclusion that they need the best partners to
face this challenge and be among the dominant players."
Telcordia President, Sanjiv Ahuja, added: "To compete in the global
marketplace, service and network providers are focused on retaining their
current customers and gaining market share. Based on the growing customer
interest in complete OSS solutions, the Alcatel/Telcordia alliance will play a
significant role in the growing global telecommunications market by providing
solutions that fully support customers' efforts to be successful."
Customers will benefit from a comprehensive and formidable offer
satisfying their complete needs for service assurance, service provisioning
and performance management for all types of networks: voice and data, access
and transmission, traditional switching, new convergent IP and ATM networks.
Telcordia's world-leading technology when combined with Alcatel's
6,000 software professionals in this area, its integration skills and its
worldwide presence puts the alliance in pole position to provide the best
service offering to its customers. The alliance will include a joint strategy
for market development and possible joint product developments.
Operators, both incumbents and new players, will benefit from improved
operational efficiency through enhanced automation and integration of their
back-office carrier activities, thereby reducing costs. This is at a time
when they are under increasing pressure from competitors and regulators to
improve services and modernise their networks, including automating their
provisioning and activation processes to keep pace with customer growth. They
will find that new carrier products and services can be deployed without the
extensive reworking of the OSS resources and databases that is required today.
The result will be greater competitiveness through improved customer care and
the ability to react faster and more flexibly to market demand.
About Alcatel
Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end
voice and data communications solutions to established and new carriers, as
well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales
of EURO 21.3 billion ($25 billion), Alcatel operates in more than
130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on Internet:
alcatel.com
About Telcordia Technologies
Telcordia Technologies Inc. (formerly Bellcore), an SAIC company, is the
world's largest provider of operations support systems, network software and
consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry. As
the leader in the development of next generation network architectures, the
Telcordia software organization has earned CMM Level Five from the Software
Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the highest software
quality recognition available. Telcordia employs more than
6,000 professionals, and has revenues of more than US $1.2 billion. Telcordia
(www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, USA with
offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Oceania
and Asia.
Contacts Alcatel
For full Alcatel Geneva Telecom press list, consult :
alcatel.com
Alcatel Telecom Geneva :
Press Office : Tel : +41 22 746 5507/08
Olivier Le Friec : Tel : +33 (0)6 08 40 94 43
Willem Zevenbergen : Tel : +33 (0)6 07 86 76 04
Alcatel Press office (Paris)
Tel : + 33 (0)1 40 76 12 98
Investor Relations
Claire Pedini Tel : +33 (0)1 40 76 13 93
Claire.pedini@alcatel.fr
Charlotte Laurent-Ottomane Tel : +33 (0)1 40 76 13 30
Charlotte.laurent-ottomane@alcatel.fr
Emmanuel Spite Tel : +33 (0)1 40 76 16 04
Emmanuel.spite@alcatel.fr
Telcordia
Sharon Oddy
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Tel: +001-732-758-2505
soddy@telcordia.com
SOURCE Alcatel Telecom
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/CONTACT: Alcatel Telecom Geneva: Press Office: +41-22-746-5507 or
+41-22-746-5507-08; or Olivier Le Friec, +33-6-08-40-94-43, or Willem
Zevenbergen, +33-6-07-86-76-04; or Alcatel Press Office -- Paris,
+33-1-40-76-12-98; or Investor Relations -- Claire Pedini, +33-1-40-76-13-93,
or Claire.pedini@alcatel.fr, or Charlotte Laurent-Ottomane, +33-1-40-76-13-30,
or Charlotte.laurent-ottomane@alcatel.fr, or Emmanuel Spite,
+33-1-40-76-16-04, or Emmanuel.spite@alcatel.fr, all of Alcatel; or Sharon
Oddy of Telcordia Technologies, Inc., 732-758-2505, or soddy@telcordia.com/
/Web site: alcatel.fr
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