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Next Generation Customer Service Powered by CEM

June 12, 2012 - 4PM BST

Aricent Group Assistant Vice President of Carrier Services and Solutions Tom Lybarger will discuss how to leverage real time device and experience analytics to reduce customer support costs and encourage self-service.

Unified Communications Federation: Why and How?

May 29, 2012 - 10AM BST

Experts from the Aricent Group will provide insights into unified communications federation architecture that allows unified communications platforms from multiple vendors to communicate with one another. This helps enterprises to create a new collaborative environment enabling seamless exchange of voice, data, video, and presence across users.

Cloud-based Telecom Testing: Why and How

Experts from Aricent will investigate the limitations overcome by cloud-based testing and present the customer benefits derived from these solutions. They will also highlight Aricent’s platform agnostic cloud-based Software Tool for Automated Test Environment (STATE), which accelerates time to market for telecom products and applications.

Leveraging LTE to address opportunities in the area of Public Safety, Rural Networks and other specific segments

LTE lends itself as a technology of choice for many markets because of its superior radio technology, high bandwidth and low latency robust coverage and government policies and regulations. In this webinar, our experts will provide exhaustive insights into what Network Equipment Manufacturers should look for in LTE core network solutions and how to get the most out of their LTE deployments in specialized markets that require low footprint solutions.

Deciphering MPLS-TP

The adoption of MPLS-TP is still at its infancy as the finer aspects are still being worked on. Join our experts in this webinar as they tackle the common myths, decipher the specifications, and delve into the typical deployment scenarios of MPLS-TP.

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Delivering the ‘optimal mobile backhaul’ experience

The insatiable demand for network bandwidth by today's smart phone users is driving telecom operators to increasingly deploy IP-based backhaul networks. Learn about the packet-based backhaul technology solutions that are available and how to choose the best option to address your requirements for high-performance IP-backhaul.

Addressing the Top 10 Challenges of LTE EPC Testing

With the introduction of new network elements in the LTE EPC network, the pre-deployment testing of EPC nodes entails several challenges. Learn from our experts how network operators and telecom equipment manufacturers can ensure that their solutions deliver robustness, seamless accessibility, and a rich end user experience on LTE networks.

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Change Rattles Radio Access Networks

Aricent’s Ravikanth Pasumarthy and Sivasankaran Veerabaku, Directors of Technology discuss next generation radio access technologies. They present the key enablers for multi-mode and small cell solutions including insights into software and architectural considerations for implementing baseband pooling.

Breaking the Form Barrier – Evolution of LTE & Enterprise Femtocells

Aricent's Sanjiv Kapur, Director of Product Management and Siddhartha Bhakta, Principal Systems Engineer, will discuss the business case for multimode and enterprise femtocells, their challenges and approaches, including detailed architectural considerations for equipment manufacturers.

Top 7 Myths of Agile Testing — Busted!

Agile software development has quickly gained adoption, including in telecommunications. But Agile poses challenges for rigorous testing. Aricent testing experts will discuss ways to minimize the pitfalls.

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Transforming B/OSS To Enable Cloud Services

Aricent VP of Business Process Innovation, Hamid Modarressi, talks about how communications service providers should be adapting their B/OSS systems to best support cloud services.

Winning in 4G with Service Assurance

The key for carriers to winning with 4G is delivering superlative service. In this webcast we discuss the top 10 changes wireless providers must make to service assurance in order to deliver unmatched subscriber experiences.

Leveraging Android for Innovative Internet TV Solutions

The rapid growth of Android and IP connectivity in homes is creating tremendous opportunities for Internet TV makers. We look at hardware, software and platform design considerations for employing Android on connected TVs.

Whitepapers

MVNOs: Multiply Your Margins And Move Up The Value Chain

MVNOs looking to offer next-generation services or increase margins must adopt more than just a selling and marketing face to the "pipe". Reseller MVNOs will need to eventually evolve to full MVNOs, managing their own service fulfillment and delivery components in addition to BSS systems. Our whitepaper talks about how MVNOs can look to move up the value chain and bolster margins.

Ethernet: The Key Catalyst for Network Convergence inside the Datacenter

This whitepaper demystifies the new standards, alternatives, and specifications in the Datacenter Ethernet domain. The aim is to help telecom equipment manufacturers understand and choose the best options for datacenter network convergence, and overcome the challenges of implementing them.

Federated Collaboration: The New World Order

This paper discusses the new enterprise experience, in which inter-domain federation is established between multiple UC Platforms across enterprises. Interdomain Federation is secure, policy-regulated collaboration between multiple enterprises or public domains that enables the exchange of messaging and presence information between users.

Developing a QoS aware framework for LTE

This guide provides exhaustive insights into how operators can leverage a QoS aware framework to provide differential treatment based on subscribers, services and data traffic flows. The guide has been developed based on our experience with leading LTE vendors.

How to Manage Trade-offs while Building Mobile Backhaul Networks

This whitepaper explores the various technology options available for migrating to a packet-based network. It investigates the trade-offs in various packet transport technologies and will help readers make the right choices for developing their mobile backhaul networks.

The Business Case for Telecom Testing

This whitepaper helps you to understand the costs of testing and how the cost of quality paradigm can be applied to estimate telecom testing return-on-investment under multiple scenarios. The cost analysis by our experts will further help you decide whether to build or buy testing competencies for your new product development projects.

Next-Generation Technical Support

This guide incorporates best practices developed by Aricent over multiple years of engagement with some of the leading Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEM) and service providers globally. It provides insights into how next generation support models are evolving to a more predictive and proactive approach resulting in reduced risks and enhanced customer support.

NexGen Short Message Gateway

Mobile Messaging continues to grow faster than predicted, particularly in developing countries. This technical paper describes the NextGen Short Message Gateway (NSMG) Architecture, which can support SMS over cellular, non-cellular generic IP networks, and interworking between multiple messaging methods used in different networks.

Best Practices Guide for MEF Certification

This guide has been developed by leveraging our certification experience across multiple Tier 1 telecom equipment vendors, as well as smaller organizations. It provides deep insights into the challenges, solutions, and the best practices to develop MEF-compliant Ethernet products that meet carrier grade standards of interoperability and performance.

Mobile Workforce Management Whitepaper

The approach this paper takes is that since the Mobile Workforce Management (MWFM) system interfaces with the majority of carrier operations, it will provide the most opportunities for cloud collaboration and operations optimization. MWFM systems not only increase workers’ productivity, they have a positive impact on fleet management, supply chain, contractor, and customer satisfaction by improving service delivery.

USSD: A Communication Technology to Potentially Ouster SMS Dependency

USSD is a communication protocol that is used to send text messages between a mobile phone and applications running on the network. It is a messaging service used in Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks similar to SMS where it sends data utilizing the signaling channel. However, unlike SMS which follows a store-and-forward oriented message transaction; USSD provides session-based connections.

Testing in the Brave New World

The telecom landscape has changed drastically in the past few years, and testing best practices have also needed to adapt to keep pace. Get insights into the 10 key things that we have learned in the last 10 years of testing complex equipment for Tier 1 customers.

ABI Research Report - Communications: The New World Order

Understand the disruptions going on in the communications landscape and how innovative end-user experiences are becoming a critical differentiating factor for subscriber acquisition and a host of new technologies including Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Femtocells.

Bringing Smart Meter Intelligence into the Home

The Aricent Group worked with a leading maker of chipsets on an advanced home energy management system that integrated with existing smart meters and smart grid infrastructure, and provided real-time energy usage feedback to the homeowner.

Modernizing Mobile Service Assurance – an Ovum Report

Service assurance, as a part of customer experience management, is now a strategic imperative for operators. Learn how forward-thinking operators are dealing with the huge demand for data services by utilizing a multi-pronged approach to service assurance.