SchlumbergerSema was awarded a contract to provide systems integration, data migration and network inventory management services over the next four years to support Sprint's migration from a circuit-switched telephone network to a packet network. Specifically, SchlumbergerSema will migrate both systematic and manually selected data from several existing Sprint source applications, populating them in the new C2P OSS. The companies said the C2P OSS plan also includes streamlining the system to get as much data as possible into a single inventory repository. SchlumbergerSema supplies IT consulting, systems integration, and network and infrastructure services .
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- On 27-May-2003, Sprint officially launched its migration from a circuit-switched telephone network to a packet network with the replacement of its entire local switching infrastructure in Gardner, Kansas. The process of migrating the entire Sprint network will take place over several years. Sprint will be capable of combining three separate "overlay" networks into a single ATM network for voice, data and private-line services. Class 5 circuit switches will be replaced using Nortel Networks' Succession Communication Server 2000 superclass softswitches, Succession Multiservice Gateway 4000, Succession Media Gateway 9000, and Nortel Networks Passport 15000 Multiservice Switches. Nortel Networks will be responsible for all delivery, installation and testing of the new packet equipment. Financial terms were not disclosed. In addition to Gardner, Kansas, the locations that are scheduled for conversion to packet switching in 2003 include five towns in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Florida and Ohio. Sprint estimates a 75% consolidation of host central offices.
In November 2001, Sprint first announced that Nortel Networks would provide products and services for the conversion of Sprint's Local Telecommunications Division network from digital circuit-switched to next generation packet-switching. At the time, the companies valued the project at US$1.1 billion over a projected four year period.
