"Kapsch CarrierCom is exceptionally positioned to be a strategic partner in the European market with a comprehensive portfolio of capabilities in designing, developing, integrating and operating mobile networks", said Zane Long, Senior Vice President Global Reseller Group, GENBAND. "We’re pleased to join forces in speeding the adoption and deployment of next generation solutions that maximise existing investments while delivering cutting-edge functionality. Our roadmap offers significant possibilities and we look forward to the ongoing collaboration".
Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, Kapsch CarrierCom has become a global leader and total solution provider of GSM infrastructure. The company successfully implements GSM(R)/3G/LTE, NGN/IMS/MSAN, IP-MPLS/Carrier Ethernet, SDP/Telco2.0, OSS/BSS and Professional Services. Kapsch CarrierCom’s recent acquisition of certain Nortel GSM assets has uniquely positioned the company to fuel important migration to next-generation mobile technologies such as LTE.
"GENBAND’s unique portfolio plays a vital and transformative role in driving the evolution of next generation mobile infrastructure", said Thomas Schöpf, Chief Operating Officer, Kapsch CarrierCom. "We’re pleased to partner in distributing and integrating GENBAND solutions as we migrate networks to LTE and IMS. Also, GENBAND’s strategic acquisition of the Nortel CVAS assets entails significant advantages, because this considerably enhances the potential pipeline for our joint customers".
As part of the Global Reseller program, GENBAND co-operates with 24 resellers around the world. Each partner serves their customers "in region" and has an extensive background in providing solutions to the service provider market that complements GENBAND’s expanding product line.
About GENBAND
GENBAND is a global leader of Next Generation Network solutions, helping fixed and mobile service providers around the world evolve communications networks through IP innovation. The company offers the industry’s most comprehensive, standards-based switching portfolio, with products deployed in over two-thirds of the world’s marquee service provider networks. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, GENBAND operates Centers of Excellence globally and serves customers and partners in more than 80 countries. To learn more, visit us on the web at: www.genband.com
Kapsch CarrierCom is a global manufacturer and independent system integrator of telecommunication solutions for railway operators and providers of access, core and transmission networks. In seven R&D centers in Europe and Asia, Kapsch CarrierCom develops applications and services for next generation networks and innovative OSS/BSS solutions. In addition, Kapsch CarrierCom provides an end-to-end service spectrum, which ranges from consulting, designing, installing and integrating, to maintaining, operating and supporting entire networks.
With 70,000 track-kilometers covered by GSM-R, Kapsch CarrierCom is an internationally recognized specialist and partner for railway operators such as the French railway RFF, the German railway DB and Network Rail in the United Kingdom. In the public operator segment, Kapsch CarrierCom’s customers include service providers such as the companies of the Telekom Austria Group and Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan. Kapsch CarrierCom is part of the Kapsch Group and has its headquarters in Vienna.