LogicaCMG has tied up with VPIsystems to offer the OnePlan planning solution to its wireline and wireless carrier customers.

OnePlan will complement LogicaCMG's existing suite of OSS and BSS solutions, and fully integrate into customers' existing infrastructures.

Aimed at carriers, enterprises, network operators and even equipment vendors, OnePlan designs and dimensions a network across all layers (access, metro and core) and across IP-based and legacy technologies.

With the addition of OnePlan, LogicaCMG further strengthens its comprehensive telecommunications solution, taking customers seamlessly from service creation to delivery, said an official spokesman.

LogicaCMG will manage the OnePlan integration and the overall implementation, including aligning the solution with existing systems and developing new business processes.

LogicaCMG's next-generation business support systems are designed to create flexibility and provide the fast time-to-market required for new services and convergence. OnePlan will ensure this flexibility and speed is not achieved at the loss of control.LogicaCMG's new partnership will have significant potential in the Middle East's increasingly liberalised telecommunication market.

The benefits of LogicaCMG's value added business service, combined with VPIsystem's resource planning software, will provide an important resource to regional carriers, network operators and equipment vendors.

'LogicaCMG with are confident that the inclusion of VPIsystems OnePlan into our global OSS portfolio will provide operators with the ability to plan, build and transform networks in line with their business, aspirations,' said managing director, Telecoms and Media at LogicaCMG, Thomas Breuer.

'With the liberalisation of the telecom market in the region, LogicaCMG and its international partners can play a key role in providing value add service to the growing industry,' said managing director, Telecom and Media, Middle East and Africa, LogicaCMG, Dr Mohsen Mohseninia.TradeArabia News Service