US : Tektronix announced the enhancement of its 3G network optimization portfolio with a unique software application that enables reduction of lost revenues through faster identification of service degradation and problem resolution. TrendNavigate complements the Network and Service Analyzer (NSA) protocol analysis solution for UTRAN, part of Tektronix' first-to-market suite of applications which help network operators worldwide improve troubleshooting and optimize network performance.
With this announcement, Tektronix offers customers a market-leading network optimization portfolio, which is centered around the NSA with its comprehensive set of applications for monitoring, analyzing and optimizing networks. The portfolio also includes the Unified Assurance network management suite for managing mobile networks and the RF Scout for RF interference hunting and coverage check. This robust key performance indicators-based portfolio enables network operators to efficiently address today's most critical challenge: keeping infrastructure and service delivery costs under control without compromising end-user quality of experience.
The exponential data traffic increase in current and future networks dictated by 3G services requirements, the complexity of UTRAN, and high customer expectations in terms of quality of service are all driving a significant need for an end-to-end mobile network optimization solution. Mobile operators want to gain greater performance and value from their existing networks while accommodating subscriber growth and high quality service demands. At the same time, they are tasked with increasing staff and infrastructure efficiencies. As a result, operators need a powerful optimization solution that provides network quality and coverage as traffic loads increase, reduces time spent assessing network performance, minimizes capital and operational expenditures and allows timely identification of potential sources of revenue losses.
"Optimizing 3G networks is critical to the business of today's network operators," said Arif Kareem, Vice President, Network Diagnostics, Tektronix. "This gives network operators a competitive edge in rolling out new services with quality and experience expected by their end users. TrendNavigate enhances our network optimization portfolio and is an extension of Tektronix' commitment to help customers get the most from their network investments. Tektronix' solution has the ability to seamlessly drill down to individual call levels. This ensures that service providers can improve their margins, while being focused on driving quality that is aligned with their own subscriber expectations and on deploying new technology without quality degradation."
TrendNavigate: Increasing Efficiency by Increasing Visibility
TrendNavigate is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) trend analysis tool that features a customized dashboard, providing independent benchmarks on network performance. Operators can establish baseline values, compare benchmarks before and after network upgrades or optimization campaigns and recognize trends and changes. By analyzing trends over time, operators can identify even minor performance degradations.
TrendNavigate allows optimization and troubleshooting engineers to assess network performance at a glance, enabling aggregation of data from multiple RNCs and sessions, over days, weeks and months. The tool also provides automatic reporting and alarming, as well as critical visibility reports, including top cell and cause value reports and cartography reports that indicate and visualize the top worst cells, areas or handsets.
The tool allows seamless drill-down from user-definable dashboard KPIs to individual call analysis. This saves operators' significant time when troubleshooting potential network problems because root causes can be narrowed down to areas, cells, services, handsets and individual calls.
