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  • Openet names Regan marketing development VP for APAC

    Openet names Regan marketing development VP for APAC

    Openet has appointed Tony Regan as vice president of market development for the APAC region, the BSS firm announced earlier this week.

    In his new role, Regan will run Openet’s market development team in APAC, working closely with regional sales VP and sales team to drive the company’s continued expansion in the region, the company said.

    Prior to joining Openet in 2016, Regan held various senior roles within the Telefonica group in Ireland, Spain and Latin America. In his previous role at Openet, Regan ran the company’s consulting division, advising operators on strategy development and execution.

    Regan will be based in Openet’s APAC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

    Openet was established in Kuala Lumpur in 2006 and has grown to provide regional service and support, managed services and software development for all of Openet’s APAC customers. The company employs over 180 people in Malaysia.

    Eric Updyke to take helms at Spirent Communications

    Spirent Communications has appointed a new chief executive officer. Eric Updyke, a former Amdocs executive, has started working for the company on April 1, and will take up the CEO role on May 1.

    Updyke will succeed retiring CEO Eric Hutchinson, who will step down on May 1. The company had announced last November that Hutchison planned to retire after 37 years of working for Spirent. He has held the CEO position since being appointed in 2013.

    In a statement, Spirent said Updyke “has extensive experience in international business management with a strong technical understanding of the markets in which Spirent operates.”

    He has worked in various sections of the industry over the last 30 years and has led transformative growth programs on a global scale.

    Updyke joins Spirent from Amdocs, where he most recently served as president of the company’s services group, with responsibility for its managed services, testing and system integration businesses.

    Prior to joining Amdocs, Updyke held executive roles at Nokia Siemens Networks and AT&T.

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  • 9 in 10 operators look to real-time assurance for revenue protection

    9 in 10 operators look to real-time assurance for revenue protection

    Among global operators, 91% view real-time assurance as the most important priority for revenue protection, according to a research from telecom.com and Openet.

    The study shows that, without a transformed approach to revenue and service assurance, over half of respondents admit that they will risk losing more than 3% of the revenues expected to come from digital services (i.e. TV services, etc) in 2017 alone.

    The forecast leakage represents a significant level of risk as over 60% anticipating that revenues from digital services will account for 10% of total revenues, and 30% seeing this revenue figure at over 20% of total revenues.

    Also, over three quarters (77%) of those surveyed believe that existing revenue assurance systems would struggle to collect relevant data in real-time from virtualized networks for new services.

    The majority (87%) agreed that most existing revenue assurance systems were designed for traditional telecoms networks. With the advent of virtualization across operators’ infrastructure promising increased efficiency in the long-term, at a network level, it significantly increases complexity in the short term.

    With this in mind, 83% of operators believe the complexity of network virtualization is adding greater need to solve the challenge of dynamic data collection for assurance in this sense.

    “As the industry moves to roll out digital services enabled by new real-time systems and virtualized networks, revenue assurance needs a serious rethink,” said Jon Ross, GVP product and solutions management at Openet.

    “Many service providers are anticipating more than 20% of their service revenue coming from digital services in 2017, therefore it’s important that any potential for revenue leakage is addressed now,” said Ross.

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