CENX Achieves TM Forum Frameworx Conformance Certification - Becomes the First 'Next-generation' Assurance Company to Receive TM Forum Compliance

OTTAWA, Ontario, April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

TM Forum, the global industry association for digital business, has awarded CENX with the TM Forum Frameworx™ Conformance Certification for the 6.1 version of its namesake product. By receiving this certification, CENX joins an esteemed group of companies such as Verizon, Ericsson, Vodafone, Telefonica, Accenture, and many others with products, solutions, and resources certified by this universally recognized, third-party validation program. This program provides an independent assessment and verification of how well products, solutions, and implementations align to standards specified in TM Forum Frameworx™.

CENX transforms network big data into real-time actionable intelligence and accelerates end-to-end operations by harnessing dynamic analytics and web-scale computing to visualize, manage and assure data services across multi-vendor, SDN, and NFV networks. The CENX solution provides the central intelligence, based on sophisticated real-time and historical analytics, that eliminates operational complexity and ushers in next-generation network operations. CENX enables service providers to drive service agility, assure service quality, and reduce operational costs - while keeping pace with market demand, rapidly integrating new technologies, and making the most of existing infrastructure investment.

"CENX is honored to be the first 'next-generation' assurance company to achieve TM Forum Compliance," states Chris Purdy, CTO. "This certification provides prospective customers with yet another, universally recognized, third-party validation of the CENX software and all the effort that has gone into making it a compelling solution to some of the industry's most complex and difficult challenges."

To date, more than 90 products, solutions and implementations from more than 40 service providers and technology suppliers are certified as conformant with Frameworx through TM Forum's Certification program. In addition, 82% of service providers mandate Frameworx conformance from their suppliers in many or all specifications. Through continued investment in standards, such as TM Forum, service providers can be confident that CENX's software is well equipped to help address the challenges of digital transformation.

For a more comprehensive look at the conformance certification awarded to CENX, view the detailed certification report here: CENX Fx16.0 Conformance Certification Report V1.0.

About CENX 

CENX fundamentally changes the way service providers view their networks. A leading provider of network and service operations software solutions, CENX ingests all of an operator's network data, across multiple domains and physical and virtual infrastructure. Harnessing the power of big data analytics, CENX visualizes network and service topology, inventory, fault, and performance in a single pane, in real time. CENX enables the world's largest and most innovative service providers to scale their operations as the network scales. http://www.cenx.com.

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About TM Forum

TM Forum is an association of over 850 member companies generating US$2 trillion in revenue and serving five billion customers across 180 countries. The Forum drives collaboration and collective problem-solving to maximize the business success of communication and digital service providers and their ecosystem of suppliers around the world. Today, the Forum is focused on supporting members as they navigate their unique digital transformation journeys, providing practical and proven assets and tools to accelerate execution and platforms to facilitate collaborative problem solving and innovation. Learn more at www.tmforum.org.

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