HandsOn Ventures Launches Lighthouse Network Management Services

As part of its strategy to provide an expanding platform of outsourced business processes to corporations worldwide, HandsOn Ventures (HOV) has launched Lighthouse Network Management Services (Lighthouse), headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands with additional facilities, including a Network Operations Center (NOC), in Pune, India. Supported by the HOV group’s extensive experience in developing management systems for telecom network elements, as well as significant experience in providing application maintenance for a variety of software platforms, Lighthouse will provide remote, full-time network monitoring, maintenance and configuration services, in conjunction with other Information Technology (IT) services to telecom operators.

Lighthouse President John Mason commented, “Over the past eight months, our senior management team in Europe has been testing HOV’s conclusion that the old and costly “one network, one NOC” model of telecom operation can no longer be sustained. We are now certain that to remain competitive, operators will need to reconsider the treatment of NOC activities as core to their business models and consider ways to utilize NOC resources on a shared basis. Enhanced efficiency and cost reduction are the key value propositions of Lighthouse Network Management Services. As with other early adopters of business process outsourcing (BPO), we believe that the Lighthouse customer base will, in a very short time, represent the most competitive, most survivable providers of telecom service around the world.”

Added Mason, “Although HOV is not ordinarily in the business of funding start-up businesses, we recognize as unique this opportunity to combine the top notch capabilities of our telco team in Europe and our worldwide IT Services group. It is our goal and expectation that Lighthouse NMS will become the #1 provider in this BPO vertical.”

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