The Nokia Siemens and Cisco Agreement

Cisco and Nokia Siemens have decided to become partners for developing a standards-based network management platform. Their interest is to bring new services for highly developed networks.

This partnership means that Cisco and Nokia Siemens will provide solutions for network resources, no matter which platform, technologies or vendors we are talking about. The platform will include a wide range of functions such as data acquisition and network element mediation. Moreover, it aims at basic fault, configuration, performance and security management functionality.

Cliff Meltzer, senior vice president of the Network Management Technology Group Cisco explains what their company intends to accomplish through this agreement: "Running a service provider network is a huge capital and operating expense. Our collaboration is focused directly at allowing operators and their suppliers to focus resources on areas of more differentiating value in their markets."

This comes in the context of the efforts that have been made for making mobile technology more accessible: "With the pressure on operators and service providers to reduce costs and deliver new, converged services more quickly across their multi-vendor and multi-technology networks, Cisco and Nokia Siemens Networks share a vision of helping these companies gain better control over their complex networks."

As for Nokia Siemens, they are interested in bringing advanced mobile networking services at best quality with minimum efforts. "This collaboration will help our customers and the industry as a whole to overcome the challenge of how to manage a complex jungle of network components delivering both business and consumer services at the same time. There is pressure from both the technical and business perspective to create a more standardized and open architecture that will reduce the number of interfaces and the integration and customization efforts. That is what the joint OSS platform is all about", says Christian Fredrikson, Head of Operations and Business Software at Nokia Siemens Networks.

Cisco is a worldwide leader when it comes to networking. Their aim is to help people connect, communicate and collaborate. The partnership between them and global mobile communication leader Nokia will lead to a standard-based telecommunications network that will rapidly develop.