NetCracker Eyes Virtualization, Biz Services

At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans, NetCracker Technology will highlight operationalizing virtualized technologies and monetizing business services. The company will focus on the role of BSS/OSS in a virtualized world, the benefits of supporting a unified network view, and the residential and business opportunities associated with utilizing the cloud and virtualizing CPE.

In other NetCracker news, the company announced the expansion of its NEC SDN Partner Space, a partner program intended to bring together innovators across the communications technology landscape to operationalize SDN and NFV. The new ecosystem portal, www.sdnspace.com, will be incorporating an SDN and NFV virtual labs environment that supports application testing with NEC's ProgrammableFlow SDN Controller, as well as NEC/NetCracker's Orchestration, vCPE, vEPC, and OSS/BSS systems.