The integrated offering focuses on the end-to-end service delivery across access, aggregation and core, including subscriber-centric activation and discovery, in multi-vendor networks.

Alcatel has embedded Syndesis' award-winning IP Triple Play service delivery management solutions into its industry-leading suite of next generation network offerings. The solution is proven to dramatically reduce the time and costs associated with the installation of IP networks and the delivery of feature-rich IP-based video, voice and data services.

By offering these solutions, Alcatel ensures seamless connectivity and interoperability between platforms, enabling a low-risk network evolution, rapid service introduction and end-to-end network visibility essential for effective IP service management worldwide.

"This partnership with Alcatel is based on a shared strategy, joint vision and proven customer success," added Syndesis president & CEO John Lochow. "Thanks to our complementary competencies, service providers are leveraging a rapidly growing subscriber base and profiting like never before from their network investments. We are thrilled that our partnership with Alcatel enables service providers globally to benefit from these solutions and acknowledge their vote of confidence in our proven, industry-leading service delivery suite."

"Syndesis brings production-proven solutions and market leadership for the delivery of next-generation services which, when added to Alcatel's expertise in systems integration and unique operational broadband experience, are producing customer success time after time," said president of Alcatel's integration and services activities Stephane Terranova, "Together, we are in a strong position to respond to increasing customer demand for provisioning and reconciliation of next-generation services and we envision that this best-in-breed offering will quickly become the industry's solution of choice."

Demonstrations of Alcatel's Triple Play OSS/BSS solution, including Syndesis software suite, are permanently housed at Alcatel's premises in Plano, Texas, in the Operational Support Systems Integration Laboratory, the world's largest lab dedicated to Triple Play and IPTV.