{"id":4316,"date":"2015-10-28T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telesemana.com\/futurecom\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2015-10-28T14:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:54:06","slug":"amdocs-expands-nfv-offering-with-amdocs-service-design-and-create-spurring-rapid-innovation-in-virtual-and-hybrid-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telesemana.com\/futurecom\/2015\/10\/28\/amdocs-expands-nfv-offering-with-amdocs-service-design-and-create-spurring-rapid-innovation-in-virtual-and-hybrid-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Amdocs Expands NFV Offering with Amdocs Service Design and Create,  Spurring Rapid Innovation in Virtual and Hybrid Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"[:es]Contenido s\u00f3lo disponible en Ingl\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p><em>New research predicts major first-mover advantage for service providers using virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE) solutions: up to $1.4 billion in new revenue and 79 percent order-to-cash cost reduction per site<sup>1<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>FUTURECOM 2015 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced Amdocs Service Design and Create, a new network functions virtualization\/software-defined networking (NFV\/SDN) solution that allows service providers to achieve service agility by enabling the design, testing and launching of new network services in weeks rather than months<sup>2 <\/sup>and meet the expectations of today\u2019s customers, influenced by the pace of over-the-top (OTT) providers\u2019 service innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Amdocs Service Design and Create overcomes the manual, time-consuming and resource-intensive service development process that today is a barrier to service innovation. With resource and service creation automation capabilities, the new solution shortens the service development lifecycle and reduces engineering and IT costs, automating the complete service development process \u2013 spanning service modeling, test and de-bugging, packaging and distribution \u2013 with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and modular, reusable components.<\/p>\n<p>Underscoring the strong market opportunity for agile software-powered networks, Amdocs also today announced <a href=\"https:\/\/nfvreadyoss.com\/\">new commissioned research from Analysys Mason<\/a> that provides the industry\u2019s first detailed analysis of the benefits that NFV\/SDN can deliver for \u201cfirst mover\u201d service providers: up to $1.4 billion in new revenues, and a 79 percent improvement in order-to-cash (O2C) per-site per year for enterprise virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) \u2013 a most promising NFV\/SDN use case<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur working hypothesis for this project was NFV and SDN are disruptive technologies that, if properly operationalized with OSS automation and self-service customer empowerment, will drive service agility and cost savings, which indeed the research proved,\u201d said Glen Ragoonanan of Analysys Mason and report co-author. \u201cBut interestingly, we found that vCPE-enabled services solution is a revolutionary opportunity for first-mover fixed-line service providers, provided they reach their critical mass \u0336 50 percent for residential and 40 percent for enterprise \u0336 for vCPE customer migration.<\/p>\n<p>The new research, drawing heavily on data from North American and European tier-1 service providers, investigates the key financial impacts of NFV in two areas which will be among its first commercial deployments: enterprise vCPE and residential set-top-box replacement (vSTB).<\/p>\n<p>Key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enterprise vCPE: service providers with first-mover advantage stand to realize up to a 5 percent annual revenue increase, resulting from increased revenues (of $1.4 billion over the investment period) from upsell\/cross-selling of new and existing NFV\/SDN services and a 79 percent O2C cost reduction per customer site, per year, due to OSS automation and customer self-provisioning.<\/li>\n<li>Residential vCPE\/vSTB: service providers with first-mover advantage stand to realize up to 82 percent cost savings per home from the adoption of vCPE-enabled services, where high cost savings (up to $1.34 billion net cost savings over the investment period) can protect revenue margins from competitive price wars, as well as fund digital-home investments and generate new strategic residential revenue streams, and provide a $655 million increase in revenues from faster upsells of double-play to triple-play services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cService providers moving to NFV need to be aware that it\u2019s not enough to simply deploy an NFV orchestrator to manage their hybrid physical and virtual network services,\u201d said Ann Hatchell, head of network marketing at Amdocs. \u201cAs this new research makes clear, to reap maximum benefit, they must also bring a new stream of services into the mix faster and at lower cost, which is exactly what this new solution helps to enable. Amdocs Service Design and Create enables agile OSS that moves our customers one step closer to The New World of Customer Experience<sup>TM<\/sup>, an era where service providers are expected to offer innovative and personalized services, brought to market quickly and delivered via agile software-powered networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amdocs offers a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.amdocs.com\/ngoss-next-gen-oss-home.html\">NFV portfolio<\/a> including Amdocs Network Cloud Service Orchestrator (NCSO), an NFV orchestration solution, and a number of virtual network functions (VNFs).<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Analysys Mason white paper, \u201cvCPE services business case: potentially billions of dollars payback for fixed CSPs\u201d by Glen Ragoonanan and Gorkem Yigit, Analysys Mason; October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Results from Amdocs internal testing. Commercial results may vary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supporting Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/nfvreadyoss.com\/\">NFV ready OSS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more about Amdocs <a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.amdocs.com\/ngoss-next-gen-oss-home.html\">NFV<\/a> solutions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amdocs.com\/Products\/Pages\/CES-Portfolio.aspx\">CES<\/a> portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Keep up with Amdocs news by visiting the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amdocs.com\/Pages\/HomePage.aspx\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Subscribe to Amdocs\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=113915&amp;p=rssSubscription&amp;t=&amp;id=&amp;\">RSS Feed<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Amdocs\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amdocs\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+amdocs\">Google+<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/amdocs\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/amdocs\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Amdocs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world\u2019s largest communications, entertainment and media service providers.\u00a0 Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience\u2122, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services.\u00a0 Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit Amdocs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amdocs.com\">www.amdocs.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amdocs\u2019 Forward-Looking Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs\u2019 growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs\u2019 ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs\u2019 ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company&#8217;s products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company&#8217;s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Media Contact:<\/h3>\n<p>Sara Preto<\/p>\n<p>Fusion PR for Amdocs<\/p>\n<p>Tel: +1-212-651-4214<\/p>\n<p>E-Mail: sara.preto@fusionpr.com[:pt]Conte\u00fado dispon\u00edvel somente\u00a0em Ingl\u00eas.<\/p>\n<p><em>New research predicts major first-mover advantage for service providers using virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE) solutions: up to $1.4 billion in new revenue and 79 percent order-to-cash cost reduction per site<sup>1<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>FUTURECOM 2015 &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced Amdocs Service Design and Create, a new network functions virtualization\/software-defined networking (NFV\/SDN) solution that allows service providers to achieve service agility by enabling the design, testing and launching of new network services in weeks rather than months<sup>2 <\/sup>and meet the expectations of today\u2019s customers, influenced by the pace of over-the-top (OTT) providers\u2019 service innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Amdocs Service Design and Create overcomes the manual, time-consuming and resource-intensive service development process that today is a barrier to service innovation. With resource and service creation automation capabilities, the new solution shortens the service development lifecycle and reduces engineering and IT costs, automating the complete service development process \u2013 spanning service modeling, test and de-bugging, packaging and distribution \u2013 with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and modular, reusable components.<\/p>\n<p>Underscoring the strong market opportunity for agile software-powered networks, Amdocs also today announced <a href=\"https:\/\/nfvreadyoss.com\/\">new commissioned research from Analysys Mason<\/a> that provides the industry\u2019s first detailed analysis of the benefits that NFV\/SDN can deliver for \u201cfirst mover\u201d service providers: up to $1.4 billion in new revenues, and a 79 percent improvement in order-to-cash (O2C) per-site per year for enterprise virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) \u2013 a most promising NFV\/SDN use case<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur working hypothesis for this project was NFV and SDN are disruptive technologies that, if properly operationalized with OSS automation and self-service customer empowerment, will drive service agility and cost savings, which indeed the research proved,\u201d said Glen Ragoonanan of Analysys Mason and report co-author. \u201cBut interestingly, we found that vCPE-enabled services solution is a revolutionary opportunity for first-mover fixed-line service providers, provided they reach their critical mass \u0336 50 percent for residential and 40 percent for enterprise \u0336 for vCPE customer migration.<\/p>\n<p>The new research, drawing heavily on data from North American and European tier-1 service providers, investigates the key financial impacts of NFV in two areas which will be among its first commercial deployments: enterprise vCPE and residential set-top-box replacement (vSTB).<\/p>\n<p>Key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enterprise vCPE: service providers with first-mover advantage stand to realize up to a 5 percent annual revenue increase, resulting from increased revenues (of $1.4 billion over the investment period) from upsell\/cross-selling of new and existing NFV\/SDN services and a 79 percent O2C cost reduction per customer site, per year, due to OSS automation and customer self-provisioning.<\/li>\n<li>Residential vCPE\/vSTB: service providers with first-mover advantage stand to realize up to 82 percent cost savings per home from the adoption of vCPE-enabled services, where high cost savings (up to $1.34 billion net cost savings over the investment period) can protect revenue margins from competitive price wars, as well as fund digital-home investments and generate new strategic residential revenue streams, and provide a $655 million increase in revenues from faster upsells of double-play to triple-play services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cService providers moving to NFV need to be aware that it\u2019s not enough to simply deploy an NFV orchestrator to manage their hybrid physical and virtual network services,\u201d said Ann Hatchell, head of network marketing at Amdocs. \u201cAs this new research makes clear, to reap maximum benefit, they must also bring a new stream of services into the mix faster and at lower cost, which is exactly what this new solution helps to enable. Amdocs Service Design and Create enables agile OSS that moves our customers one step closer to The New World of Customer Experience<sup>TM<\/sup>, an era where service providers are expected to offer innovative and personalized services, brought to market quickly and delivered via agile software-powered networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amdocs offers a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.amdocs.com\/ngoss-next-gen-oss-home.html\">NFV portfolio<\/a> including Amdocs Network Cloud Service Orchestrator (NCSO), an NFV orchestration solution, and a number of virtual network functions (VNFs).<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Analysys Mason white paper, \u201cvCPE services business case: potentially billions of dollars payback for fixed CSPs\u201d by Glen Ragoonanan and Gorkem Yigit, Analysys Mason; October 2015.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Results from Amdocs internal testing. Commercial results may vary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supporting Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/nfvreadyoss.com\/\">NFV ready OSS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more about Amdocs <a href=\"https:\/\/solutions.amdocs.com\/ngoss-next-gen-oss-home.html\">NFV<\/a> solutions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amdocs.com\/Products\/Pages\/CES-Portfolio.aspx\">CES<\/a> portfolio<\/li>\n<li>Keep up with Amdocs news by visiting the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amdocs.com\/Pages\/HomePage.aspx\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Subscribe to Amdocs\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=113915&amp;p=rssSubscription&amp;t=&amp;id=&amp;\">RSS Feed<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Amdocs\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amdocs\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+amdocs\">Google+<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/amdocs\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/amdocs\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Amdocs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world\u2019s largest communications, entertainment and media service providers.\u00a0 Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience\u2122, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services.\u00a0 Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit Amdocs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amdocs.com\">www.amdocs.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amdocs\u2019 Forward-Looking Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs\u2019 growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs\u2019 ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs\u2019 ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company&#8217;s products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. 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