{"id":57719,"date":"2021-04-13T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/netcracker-tapped-to-provide-telesat-lightspeeds-business-operations-support-system\/"},"modified":"2021-04-13T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:47:17","slug":"netcracker-tapped-to-provide-telesat-lightspeeds-business-operations-support-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/netcracker-tapped-to-provide-telesat-lightspeeds-business-operations-support-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Netcracker Tapped to Provide Telesat Lightspeed\u2019s Business, Operations Support System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telesat<\/strong> has contracted <strong>Netcracker Technology<\/strong> to provide Business Support System\/Operations Support System (BSS\/OSS) software for is Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the agreement announced April 13, Netcracker will deploy a digital BSS and OSS suite on Telesat Lightspeed\u2019s hybrid cloud infrastructure. The BSS\/OSS system will manage a variety of functions and capabilities on the constellation, including sales support, product inventory, customer billing, service quality and assurance management, and network management.<\/p>\n<p>Telesat LEO Vice President Erwin Hudson said that the Netcracker BSS\/OSS suite provides tools that will allow the operator to quickly respond to customer needs and deliver new services to market. \u201cTelesat and Netcracker share a culture of innovation, and we are confident in their ability to deliver on our vision of a flexible and efficient cloud-native technology platform that will maximize the quality of experience for our customers,\u201d Hudson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Netcracker is the latest addition to Telesat\u2019s list of Lightspeed contractors on the $5 billion constellation project that will be centralized in the city of Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the operator signed <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> as its prime contractor to build the satellites and <strong>MDA<\/strong> as its phased array antenna manufacturer. MDA (which is now a publicly traded company) recently issued a subcontract to <strong>Analog Devices<\/strong> for the Beamforming Integrated Circuit (BFIC) that will be used on those antennas.<\/p>\n<p>Telesat has yet to select its major partner for Lightspeed\u2019s ground systems. However, the operator recently contracted <strong>SatixFy<\/strong> to provide advanced modem designs for Telesat Lightspeed landing stations and user terminals. SatixFy is also testing second-generation Sx3099 modem chips for use in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telesat has contracted Netcracker Technology to provide Business Support System\/Operations Support System (BSS\/OSS) software for is Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. Under the terms of the agreement announced April 13, Netcracker will deploy a digital BSS and OSS suite on Telesat Lightspeed\u2019s hybrid cloud infrastructure. The BSS\/OSS system will manage a variety of functions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}