Advices to Vendors:

Advices to Vendors:

At TelecomNEXT, vendors were given some advices by four of the biggest U.S. incumbent carriers. In a market where consolidation is on the road and competition is becoming tougher, no doubt that vendors have to take care of carriers needs. In short they are:

• compliance with specs,
• more reliability, interoperability, and performance of NG solution, such as IMS, IPTV, ..
• forget delayed deliveries
• increase software quality and reliability,
• focus on IP products
• lower operation costs
• go beyond “five nines”
• develop products to be more durable and upgradeable over the years.
• preserve depreciation cycles,