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Orange with Amdocs Trialing ECOMP_FINAL
1. Orange Polska Collaborates with Amdocs on ECOMP Platform
WARSAW and ST. LOUIS January 30, 2017 Orange Polska (WSE: OPL), a convergent operator in the
Polish market, and Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), the leading provider of digital customer experience solutions,
today announced that they have embarked on the industry’s first project to trial the ECOMP (Enhanced
Control, Orchestration, Management & Policy) software platform. This platform is being trialed by Orange
Polska, in cooperation with Amdocs as the technology integrator. The objective is to assess ECOMP, initially
for virtual services in Poland, and then globally across the Orange footprint (236 million customers in 28
countries). This is in response to the skyrocketing demand for network capacity and the subsequent need
to transform current infrastructures to models based on cloud computing and network function
virtualization (NFV) and to progress towards 5G.
ECOMP offers service providers the ability to design and operate “software-centric” networks running on
virtual machines rather than on traditional, physical network architectures. Such networks provide
improved scalability and extensive automation, and can adapt faster to customer needs with the quick
addition and removal of features. By deploying ECOMP, service providers will gain more control of their
network services, drive down operational costs and allow developers to more easily innovate with new
network services. Ultimately, consumers benefit because the network will be able to better adapt and
scale to meet their needs, as well as predict how to make their connected experiences seamless.
AT&T has committed to release ECOMP as open source software, in conjunction with the Linux
Foundation. As such, ECOMP has a chance to become a leading standard for the industry.
“Virtualisation of the network is an inevitable process. By testing ECOMP at Orange Polska, we are
preparing ourselves to become a software-driven company. In the future, these cutting-edge technologies
will give customers completely new possibilities, such as the ability to self-activate and deactivate services,
or to enjoy flexible rating, based on the time they consumed the service. The operator, on the other hand,
will receive tools that allow real-time adaptation to meet the customer needs,” – said Piotr Muszyński,
Orange Polska Vice-President in charge of Strategy and Transformation.
Orange Polska is conducting numerous tests with Amdocs to support the preparation and creation of a set
of innovative virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE) services for residential customers. A significant
part of the vCPE features will be moved to a cloud environment and managed by the ECOMP platform.
The tests will validate the capabilities and potential benefits of an ECOMP deployment within the Orange
network.
“Amdocs brings unique expertise to early day ECOMP projects like ours because of their early involvement
and commitment to AT&T’s ECOMP project: They participated in the development of the platform and they
2. have a deep understanding of how to onboard network services and functions with ECOMP,” – said Alain
Maloberti, Senior Vice-President in charge of Orange Labs Networks.
Amdocs’ support is an opportunity for Orange to gain experience in building and integrating next-
generation solutions using ECOMP. Orange will leverage this project to capture the impact on jobs and
processes, and understand how ECOMP can facilitate activities of network designers, engineers and
operators. Moreover, this project will help Orange understand how ECOMP can reduce the time it takes
to introduce new NFV technologies and services.
“Always an innovator, Orange was the first service provider to join AT&T in its efforts to standardise NFV
and SDN platforms and we are excited to be their partner in integrating open source ECOMP for the first
time into a live cloud environment and demonstrating the first of many NFV applications,” – said Anthony
Goonetilleke, President of the Amdocs Product Business Group.
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, Amdocs will be showcasing a wide range of virtualised
services from its NFV partner ecosystem. To learn more about this partner program, visit
www.amdocs.com/about/partners/nfv, write to ecomp@amdocsopennetwork.com or visit Amdocs at
Mobile World Congress, Hall 3, Stand 3G10.
About Orange Polska
Orange Polska is a unique convergent operator in the Polish market, providing mobile and fixed-line telco
services, as well as TV, energy and banking services. With over 16 million mobile customers and over 99 %
4G LTE range, Orange Polska is the number one network in Poland and the largest investor in state-of-the-
art superfast internet, fiber and 4G. The Group owns the largest technical infrastructure in Poland, with
operations in fixed-line voice, data and mobile networks. Orange Polska is a part of Orange, one of the
biggest worldwide telecom operators. Orange Polska shares are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange
(symbol OPL) and are included in WIG20 index.
In 2015 Orange Polska generated PLN 11.8 billion of revenues. As of September 30, 2016 Orange Polska
had over 23 million customers of different services (mobile, fixed voice, broadband and TV) and employed
15,786 people (in full-time equivalents).
Orange Polska provides, amongst other, convergent, fixed voice, fixed broadband access, TV, Voice over
Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) as well as mobile voice and mobile data services. Its offer is also enriched by
non-telco service such as banking and energy services.
For more information on current offer and corporate information visit www.orange.pl,
biuroprasowe.orange.pl or follow us on Twitter: @Orange_Polska and @RzecznikOrange.
3. About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world’s largest
communications, entertainment and media service providers. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions,
which include BSS, OSS, network control, optimization and network functions virtualization, coupled with
professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by simplifying
business complexity, reducing costs and delivering a world-class customer experience.
The Amdocs portfolio enables service providers to capture the world of digital immediacy by operating
across digital dimensions to engage customers with personalized, omni-channel experiences; creating a
diversified business to capture new revenue streams; becoming data empowered to make business and
operational decisions based on insight-based and predictive analytics; and achieving service agility to
accelerate the fast rollout of new technologies and hybrid network services.
Amdocs and its 25,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global
Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.7 billion in fiscal 2016.
Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.
For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs’ Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor
provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs’ growth and
business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements
are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any
deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ
from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs’
ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs’ ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses,
adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and
services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our
customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update
these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any
obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2016
filed on December 12, 2016.
4. Media Contacts:
Orange Polska
Wojciech Jabczyński
Orange Spokesman
https://twitter.com/RzecznikOrange
www.blog.orange.pl
E-mail: biuro.prasowe@orange.com
Amdocs
Austin Weedfall
Hotwire PR for Amdocs
Tel: +1-646-790-4737
E-Mail: austin.weedfall@hotwirepr.com