Reabra, a Sao Paulo based open access operator transforming regions with 5 Mbit/s radio to 100 Mbit/s fiber access, has selected PacketFront Software’s BBE as their BSS platform for management of services, customers and service providers.

At the later stage, the solution will be complemented with PacketFront Software’s BECS network orchestration tool for management of Reabra’s point-to-point and GPONbased fiber networks. The goal is to achieve an instant and fully automated service provisioning flow, starting from a customer portal to the configuration of network elements.

The BBE platform has already been taken into commercial use.

In order to further support the growth of the company, PacketFront Software today announced a significant strengthening of its Sales, Delivery and R&D organizations at the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

Christel Sandstedt recently joined PacketFront Software as Delivery and Professional Services Manager. Christel, who is a member of the management team, will be responsible for the company’s customer delivery projects as well as focusing on increasing Professional Services sales. She brings with her many years of experience from companies such as Stokab and the city carrier of Sundbyberg municipality.

Claes Lithagen recently joined PacketFront Software as Senior Sales Director and will be focusing on increasing the company’s software sales to its traditional customer base of city carriers and T1/T2 operators. Claes joins the company from IP Infusion, where he served as Global Account Director & Senior Sales Director EMEA, heading the EMEA organization.

Andreas Persson will be joining PacketFront Software on April 1^st as Director R&D and Product Management and member of the management team. Most recently, he held the position as Manager Software Engineering at the optical network equipment vendor Infinera in Stockholm, Sweden. The company’s current Product Manager, Henrik Johansson, will from now on head up the company’s strategic initiative within SDN/NFV, which is an area that is becoming more and more important to the company.

“We are very happy to announce the recruitment of Christel, Claes and Andreas as well as Henrik Johansson’s new SDN/NFV-focused position. They bring with them a wealth of experience that will assist the company in achieving its future growth plans, and we wish them good luck in their new respective roles”, says Jan Kettnaker, CEO of PacketFront Software.

PacketFront Software announced further development of the BECS network automation solution to include data center management.

Even if the spinning up of servers is today a highly automated process, the network infrastructure connecting servers is still mainly managed manually. BECS can now automate even this part of the process providing the staff operating data centers the capabilities to activate / deactivate services end-to-end in seconds instead of days and weeks.

“Entering the fast growing data center market is a strategic decision for us. We have high expectations that our investment in this sector will bear first fruits during 2017 helping us to further accelerate our already high growth.” says Jan Kettnaker, CEO of PacketFront Software.

Fibia P/S, the merger of NRGi and SEAS-NVE fiber operations, has decided to use PacketFront Software’s BECS OSS platform to manage the network.

BECS enables a harmonization of the management of the different technologies and vendors used in the network. This provides Fibia with tools to rationalize the operations and to streamline the service offering throughout the network.

Fibia’s FTTH deployment consists of approximately 160.000 ports using Point-to-Point and GPON technologies from companies such as Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Waystream, Genexis, Icotera and Tilgin. The project focus has been to migrate NRGi’s Alcatel-Lucent GPON and Cisco 4500 based network to BECS and utilize BECS ACS functionality to manage ONT’s and CPE’s via the TR-069 protocol.

“Fibia is leading the Danish FTTH market consolidation and is becoming a major player within this segment. We are pleased that Fibia decided to use BECS as a key tool in this consolidation”, says Jan Kettnaker, CEO PacketFront Software.

“SEAS-NVE has used BECS since 2006. When we faced the decision on how to take care of the Fibia network, BECS was an easy choice to make due to its excellent reliability and flexibility track record”, says Ole Højgaard Christensen, Technical Manager at Fibia.

Accessbolaget AB, a new Swedish nationwide wholesale access network provider, has selected PacketFront Software’s BECS and BBE systems to deliver an end-to-end network configuration and service activation solution for their Juniper and Adva based MPLS VPN network. The solution is delivered by NetNordic, PacketFront Software’s Nordic partner.

“Accessbolaget has brought something completely new and innovative to the Swedish telecom market, providing independent Carrier Ethernet capacity services in cooperation with the widespread city networks. It has previously been very difficult for operators to utilize these city networks efficiently due to lack of single interface and infrastructure, something that Accessbolaget has brought to the market. We are excited to be a part of this game changing event”, says Jan Kettnaker, CEO PacketFront Software.

“We selected the system after a thorough evaluation process. We chose BECS and BBE due to the purpose-build product, which gave us an off-the-shelf solution. At the same time the high scripting capabilities on top of the base product gave us a possibility to achieve a solution that is tailored for our specific requirements”, says Jan Werne, CEO at Accessbolaget.