WARSAW, Poland and ST. LOUIS, Jan. 30, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIR/KOREA IT TIMES) -- Orange Polska (WSE:OPL), a convergent operator in the Polish market, and Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of digital customer experience solutions, today announced that they have embarked on the industry’s first project to trial the ECOMP (Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management & Policy) software platform. This platform is being trialed by Orange Polska, in cooperation with Amdocs as the technology integrator. The objective is to assess ECOMP, initially for virtual services in Poland, and then globally across the Orange footprint (236 million customers in 28 countries). This is in response to the skyrocketing demand for network capacity and the subsequent need to transform current infrastructures to models based on cloud computing and network function virtualization (NFV) and to progress towards 5G.
ECOMP offers service providers the ability to design and operate “software-centric” networks running on virtual machines rather than on traditional, physical network architectures. Such networks provide improved scalability and extensive automation, and can adapt faster to customer needs with the quick addition and removal of features. By deploying ECOMP, service providers will gain more control of their network services, drive down operational costs and allow developers to more easily innovate with new network services. Ultimately, consumers benefit because the network will be able to better adapt and scale to meet their needs, as well as predict how to make their connected experiences seamless.
AT&T has committed to release ECOMP as open source software, in conjunction with the Linux Foundation. As such, ECOMP has a chance to become a leading standard for the industry.
“Virtualisation of the network is an inevitable process. By testing ECOMP at Orange Polska, we are preparing ourselves to become a software-driven company. In the future, these cutting-edge technologies will give customers completely new possibilities, such as the ability to self-activate and deactivate services, or to enjoy flexible rating, based on the time they consumed the service. The operator, on the other hand, will receive tools that allow real-time adaptation to meet the customer needs,” – said Piotr Muszyński, Orange Polska Vice-President in charge of Strategy and Transformation.
Orange Polska is conducting numerous tests with Amdocs to support the preparation and creation of a set of innovative virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE) services for residential customers. A significant part of the vCPE features will be moved to a cloud environment and managed by the ECOMP platform. The tests will validate the capabilities and potential benefits of an ECOMP deployment within the Orange network.
“Amdocs brings unique expertise to early day ECOMP projects like ours because of their early involvement and commitment to AT&T’s ECOMP project: They participated in the development of the platform and they have a deep understanding of how to onboard network services and functions with ECOMP,” – said Alain Maloberti, Senior Vice-President in charge of Orange Labs Networks.
Amdocs’ support is an opportunity for Orange to gain experience in building and integrating next-generation solutions using ECOMP. Orange will leverage this project to capture the impact on jobs and processes, and understand how ECOMP can facilitate activities of network designers, engineers and operators. Moreover, this project will help Orange understand how ECOMP can reduce the time it takes to introduce new NFV technologies and services.
“Always an innovator, Orange was the first service provider to join AT&T in its efforts to standardise NFV and SDN platforms and we are excited to be their partner in integrating open source ECOMP for the first time into a live cloud environment and demonstrating the first of many NFV applications,” – said Anthony Goonetilleke, President of the Amdocs Product Business Group.
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, Amdocs will be showcasing a wide range of virtualised services from its NFV partner ecosystem. To learn more about this partner program, visit www.amdocs.com/about/partners/nfv, write to ecomp@amdocsopennetwork.com or visit Amdocs at Mobile World Congress, Hall 3, Stand 3G10.
About Orange Polska
Orange Polska is a unique convergent operator in the Polish market, providing mobile and fixed-line telco services, as well as TV, energy and banking services. With over 16 million mobile customers and over 99 % 4G LTE range, Orange Polska is the number one network in Poland and the largest investor in state-of-the-art superfast internet, fiber and 4G. The Group owns the largest technical infrastructure in Poland, with operations in fixed-line voice, data and mobile networks. Orange Polska is a part of Orange, one of the biggest worldwide telecom operators. Orange Polska shares are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (symbol OPL) and are included in WIG20 index.
In 2015 Orange Polska generated PLN 11.8 billion of revenues. As of September 30, 2016 Orange Polska had over 23 million customers of different services (mobile, fixed voice, broadband and TV) and employed 15,786 people (in full-time equivalents).
Orange Polska provides, amongst other, convergent, fixed voice, fixed broadband access, TV, Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) as well as mobile voice and mobile data services. Its offer is also enriched by non-telco service such as banking and energy services.
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About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world’s largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control, optimization and network functions virtualization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by simplifying business complexity, reducing costs and delivering a world-class customer experience.
The Amdocs portfolio enables service providers to capture the world of digital immediacy by operating across digital dimensions to engage customers with personalized, omni-channel experiences; creating a diversified business to capture new revenue streams; becoming data empowered to make business and operational decisions based on insight-based and predictive analytics; and achieving service agility to accelerate the fast rollout of new technologies and hybrid network services.
Amdocs and its 25,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.7 billion in fiscal 2016.
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Amdocs’ Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs’ growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs’ ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs’ ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016 filed on December 12, 2016.
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