Services

  Interim management

With many years of international experience serving technology companies such as CSPs (MNOs, MVNOs), vendors, system integrators, with combined technical, operational and business views, our consultants are uniquely positioned to take interim management position as they have typically worked closely with senior management and have had role up to CxO level. They will in particular bring a focus on operational excellence.

  Project, programme and portfolio management

Having experience with large Telecoms and ICT projects in start-up or transformation contexts and a unique deep and up to date understanding of the technical aspects, our consultants can in many cases act as project, programme or portfolio managers. Our services rely on best practices with the adoption of best in class project and programme management methods with certified professionals (PRINCE2® and MSP® practitioners), blending Agile as relevant and taking into account service management and business processes (adhering in particular to ITIL® and eTOM®). Our services also embed cyber security and information security best practices with certified professionals (ISO/IEC 27001®).

We can also support organizations willing to adopt a portfolio approach to drive transformation again relying on best in class porfolio management method (with certified professionals i.e. MoP® practitioners).

  Design, build and run services

Our core management and technical services cover the entire design-build-run cycle. Our services rely on best practices with the adherence to relevant management and process frameworks.

We provide services in relation to:

  • New operation start-up (CSPs and technology start-ups in general, MNOs and MVNOs in particular)
  • Business case and budget developments and TCO estimations
  • License bids or applications
  • Architecture definition, High Level Design and Low Level Design
  • RFx preparation, management analysis (adherent to IACCM best practices)
  • Contract negotiation and vendor management
  • Data center assessment (adherent to Uptime Institute approaches)
  • System deployment, integration and testing
  • Operations management, outsourcing and MSP management (adherent to ITIL® best practices, with certified professionals)
  • Service assurance, infrastructure performance and security analysis (see below)

      Service assurance, infrastructure performance and security analysis

    With decades of experience with CSPs, especially with public mobile networks monitoring and optimization, we have a wealth of expertise in service assurance.

    We have hands on experience with proprietary configuration and performance management systems with a wealth of expertise in configuration audit, which often deliver quick benefits with rapid network performance enhancements. In addition, we use innovative automated cloud based performance data collection, aggregation and analysis tools together with our own probing systems to troubleshoot and monitor network performance.

    For IT infrastructure we have hands on experience with open-source industry standard infrastructure monitoring and security tools (intrusion detection and prevention).

      Private and hybrid clouds consulting

    We provide private and hybrid clouds consulting service. We can especially support private cloud deployment, migration and administration with expertise in open source virtualization, container, and storage platforms such as OpenStack®, Kubernetes® and Ceph (with OpenStack® and Kubernetes® certified professionals). We also have affinities with hyperconverged infrastructure with knowledge in systems such as VxRail®.

      System and network administration and automation

    We provide system administration (Linux) and automation consulting services, strongly adhering to the GitOps and DevOps approaches, mastering tools such as GitLab, Ansible, Terraform, Fleet or ArgoCD. With our background in Telecoms, we can in particular provide solutions to manage at scale transport and access network equipment (including radio network access equipment) the GitOps way.

       4G and 5G private mobile network consulting and supply

    With decades of experience with public mobile networks, we have supported some of the first private mobile operators for many years now with the sourcing, planning and implementation of their 4G private networks.

    Our services for 4G and 5G private mobile networks include:

  • Business case and budget developments
  • Private spectrum acquisition support
  • Sourcing and supply of software and hardware for core and radio systems
  • Sourcing and supply of SIM cards
  • Architecture definition, infrastructure planning, implementation, integration and testing of core and radio systems
  • Sourcing of software and hardware for application platforms such as VoLTE/NR, SMS, PTT, and deployment of these

       IoT/Edge computing and software development

    Stay tuned! Our new IoT/Edge computing platform will be announced soon!

    Finally, we offer rapid software development services to provide the glue between system components, integrating APIs (REST, SOAP) or messaging protocols.