3G
Network Operators Should Not Neglect Physical Infrastructure
24th June 2002
MRO
Software is urging telecommunications operators not to neglect their
physical infrastructure following the substantial investments in GPRS
and 3G networks.
Marcel
Van Velthoven, General Manager for Northern Europe at MRO Software,
will be addressing the network challenges facing mobile operators in
Europe at the Next Generation Infrastructure: Europe conference in Vienna,
on Tuesday 25 June 2002 at 16:15 - 17:30pm. He will also discuss Quality
of Service (QoS) issues, how telecommunications providers can optimise
and maintain quality in the legacy network, and will present case studies
on the implementation of asset management technology at Libertel-Vodaphone
and T-Mobile.
Marcel,
comments: "Telecommunications Operators need to ensure that the
physical side, those parts of the telecommunications network which are
necessary to facilitate traffic flow, are up and running efficiently
and effectively, or they risk losing valuable customers to a competitor
and irrevocably damaging critical revenues. Above all, they need to
invest in technologies that help them to maintain the highest customer
service levels.
Technologies
that enable monitoring of network performance, that give them visibility
of critical parts of the network and ensure that those parts have 100
per cent up-time."
Libertel-Vodaphone
recognised a clear need for one single asset management system when
it decided to implement MAXIMO, the leading enterprise asset management
solution from MRO Software. Mr A. Jongen, Manager of Network Operations,
Libertel-Vodaphone, highlights how critical it was to know how productive
its assets are: "What is where and what is it worth? The time came
when it was no longer possible to give a simple answer to that question.
All the information was available, but spread out over numerous little
database systems developed in-house."
Following
the installation of MAXIMO Libertel-Vodaphone benefited from visibility
of all its installed assets and had a single solution through which
it could plan and carry out engineering and operation work.
MRO
Software's has helped many telecoms providers manage their critical
assets and increase productivity. These include Omnitel, Cegetal, SBC
Ameritech, Tele2, Turkcell, FSR and Vodacom.
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MRO
Software is urging telecommunications operators not to neglect their physical
infrastructure following the substantial investments in GPRS and 3G networks.
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