Competed with 14 other teams in France.
By The American Bazaar Staff
BANGALORE: A Kerala-based IT company has been awarded the TM Forum’s Catalyst Award, a designation given out to a company that most successfully implements the Forum’s proprietary communications service optimizer.
SunTec Business Solutions, based in Kerala’s tech haven of Thiruvanathapuram, was awarded alongside AT&T, Telecom Italia, DigitalWave, Resolvetel, and Svarog Technology Group. The companies emerged victorious out of 15 teams that competed at the TM Forum Live! showcase from June 2-5 in Nice, France, in which some of the biggest technology service providers in the world showcased their innovations.
Together, SunTec and its partner companies worked on an NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) Management Ecosystem project, in which they successfully implemented TM Forum’s Frameworx system for the “management and orchestration (MANO) as defined by the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group as the platform to demonstrate real-time, dynamic management of capacity, performance, quality of service and SLAs, as well as enabling real-time billing and compensation.”
“Because the Forum takes a practical, proof-of-concept approach combined with agile collaborative techniques, we can solve common challenges in record time,” said Nik Willetts, chief strategy officer of TM Forum, in a statement. “The projects demonstrated at this year’s TM Forum Live! prove the power of our member community, industry collaboration and its ability to deliver rapid, innovative solutions.”
Companies that SunTec defeated to claim the top prize include BT, China Mobile, Reliance Communications, Saudi Telecom Co., and Cox Communications, to name a few.
Founded in 1990, SunTec is a privately held software solutions firm with over 250 offices and installations around the world, including London, New Jersey, and Singapore. Its Founder, President, and CEO is K. Nanda Kumar, and the company is no stranger to awards. In 2009, it won the Red Herring Global 100 Award, and in 2004, became the first company in the world to become eligible for the CMM (Capability Maturity Model) 5 billing model adopted by the US Department of Defense.
TM Forum, founded in 1988, in a non-profit industry association for service providers and their clientele in the telecom and entertainment industries. It “brings together more than 85,000 professionals from 900+ member companies to share experiences, collaborate and rapidly solve critical business challenges including IT transformation, business process optimization, big data analytics, cloud management, customer experience management and cyber security,” according to its website.
TM Forum did not disclose what the actual prize is for winning the Catalyst Award, in terms of financial compensation, other than that the award itself is highly prestigious and brings recognition upon the companies which win it.