Cellwize announced that its "elastic-SON™, the Centralized Self Organizing Network solution (C-SON) has been commercially deployed by Telefónica UK to enhance mobile network performance and Quality of Service for UK subscribers. elastic-SON from Cellwize was selected following a rigorous evaluation process carried out by the Telefónica Global CTO Team and Telefónica UK.

Telefónica UK is the

Cellwize announced that it has "expanded its existing agreement with Cellcom Israel to deploy, through a dedicated innovation center, the unique capabilities of its elastic-SON™ functions .. Cellcom Israel, the nation’s largest operator [3M subscribers as of June 30, 2014], is a long term partner of SON specialist Cellwize 

After the launch of its LTE network [here; see also "LTE Services

Cellwize announced that it is the ".. first to offer a Network Functions Virtualized (NFV)-ready SON solution, that’s multi-technology and fully multi-vendor compliant ..Cellwize achieved the first step towards NFV by virtualizing its SON and application servers, delivering its optimization through virtual machines in NFV environments. As a result, elastic-SON™ can be fully automated with other

Some statements and slides from a recent Vodafone webinar on LTE (here):







Carrier aggregation: Initial deployments in Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal to date; Speeds up to 300Mbps achieved







VoLTE: We will begin enabling VoLTE in Europe from H1 2014 and deployed in many markets in next 12 months
 
eMBMS - enabling the broadcast of video and content over 4G - 1st live eMBMS

Amdocs announced the "..Amdocs Self-Optimizing Networks (SON) solution, which automates the optimization of radio access networks (RANs) .. Amdocs SON gives mobile service providers a market-proven [See "Amdocs: Telus [Canada]; TIM, Nextel [Brazil]; Vodafone, Telefonica [Germany] Selected Actix/Celcite" - here] solution that efficiently manages increasingly complex heterogeneous networks (

Ericsson announced that "SingTel has chosen Ericsson's SON Optimization Manager to extend benefits of network automation to their WCDMA networks. The solution adapts intelligently to network traffic conditions, delivering optimum coverage, capacity and quality at all times .. With this system, SingTel and Ericsson optimize multiple network elements and domains, allowing the integration of

   
Amdocs continues to expand its offering in the network optimization space - much close to the IP data plane compared to its legacy products.

The BSS/OSS vendor announced ".. it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Celcite Management Solutions LLC [see "Celcite Updates SON with Responsibility Metrics and Accelerated Load Balancing" - here]  for