Japanese systems integrator NTT Advanced Technology (NTT-AT) has been announced as Openet’s latest reseller partner. The deal will extend Openet’s reach into the NTT group and significantly enhance its commercial footprint across Asia.
NTT-AT, which represents the technological core of the NTT group, will re-sell Openet products and solutions to all subsidiary operators within the NTT group. NTT-AT chose to partner with Openet after successfully trialling a series of policy and control functions across NFV (network functions virtualisation) environments.
Integrating solutions where NFV techniques are applied to OSS/BSS enables the NTT group to deliver on the promises of NFV, such as system agility, faster time to market, reduced TCO, increased elasticity, and greater service availability. Following the successful test, NTT-AT will look to roll Openet’s virtualised BSS technology out across the NTT Group.
“Having rigorously tested Openet’s virtualised BSS solutions, we are extremely confident of the immediate value it will deliver to the NTT group as a whole,” said Masayoshi Nagao, the sales chief of the Openet team at NTT-AT. “The level of support offered by Openet will afford us the ability to build increasingly agile systems to provide service diversity and faster time to market for NTT subsidiary operators.”
Cyril Dolan, the GVP of Indirect Channels at Openet, added: “Our partnership with NTT-AT provides us with a variety of new access points into one of the world’s most innovative operator groups. Our virtualised BSS technology will deliver a wide variety of benefits and new revenue streams for subsidiaries within the NTT group and clearly demonstrate the mutual value of our global partner programme. We actively welcome new entrants to this programme and we believe partnerships between specialist systems integrators like NTT-AT and Openet offer CSPs the best opportunity to build an agile BSS environment.”
