Ciena’s acquisition of DonRiver is a positive development for the telco software market. It has the potential to accelerate legacy network transformation and to enable hybrid physical/software network operational coexistence. Combining DonRiver’s OSS federation capability and Ciena’s Blue Planet orchestration promise a strong management platform for the transformation of legacy networks and the enabling of hybrid networks. With the DonRiver acquisition Ciena have the key parts to enable this network transformation. Practical OSS transformation DonRiver has built up an impressive list of worldwide clients where they have enabled transformation and consolidation of fragmented legacy OSS environments, enabling operational efficiency and automation. DonRiver’s strength is its strong OSS domain knowledge and long term experience of OSS transformation projects. DonRiver’s Fusion product has been built based on this practical knowledge. DonRiver have also built a delivery methodology that avoids traditional “Big Bang” transformation favouring evolution and DevOps style iterative delivery of business benefit. Ciena scale DonRiver brings Ciena a strong consultancy and implementation team with knowledge of practical OSS transformation and the reality of achieving this in real CSP operational environments. Ciena’s scale will enable these strengths to be more widely known building stronger credibility for transformation of existing OSS and practical roll […]