OREANDA-NEWS. NetCracker Technology and NEC Corporation announced today that Optus, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and an Australian leader in integrated telecommunications, delivering cutting-edge communications, information technology and entertainment services, has selected it to deliver a comprehensive, multi-phased upgrade program.

Working with NetCracker and NEC Australia, this project will allow Optus to upgrade its existing OSS Systems spanning Optus' diverse lines of business including consumer and business wireless; broadband; enterprise data, voice, and ICT services and IP telephony; across the service fulfilment chain, from service order management to network configuration and activation.

NetCracker will provide Optus with a range of new OSS capabilities based on its NetCracker 9.0 suite, including Service Information Management, Service Order Management, Service Inventory, Service Activation, Network Planning and Design, Network Resource Inventory, Discovery and Reconciliation, and Network Configuration Management.

NetCracker will be integral in the end-to-end delivery of the OSS service fulfillment program. It will provide a range of professional services to Optus including program management and governance; solution implementation and integration; systems consolidation; data migration; legacy system decommissioning; and testing, support, and training.

"We look forward to empowering Optus to provision services faster and more efficiently," said Frank DeTraglia, Vice President-Global Sales at NetCracker. "This agreement demonstrates NetCracker's commitment to helping its customers turn their key business challenges into market leadership opportunities."