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Industries: Wireless

In an era of instant and ubiquitous connectivity, individuals and organizations alike are increasingly taking advantage of wireless networks to gain any-where, anytime, any how access to voice, data, and video applications and services. The commoditization of voice services, advent of content rich IMS-based services, evolving business models and new competitors are all changing the complexion of the wireless landscape.  Wireless service providers are rolling out a variety of network technologies (e.g. 3G, WiFi, WiMAX) to better serve the “mobile broadband subscriber”.  Underpinning these trends is the rapid deployment of IP networks to help deliver converged services over the same transport network.  Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) has been another key driver for the wireless industry’s ‘shift to IP’. The benefits of IP networks to wireless operators are the same as to anyone else — bandwidth efficiency, greater scalability and control, and lower operational costs. However the challenges are formidable, including the ability to provision and manage a network that has constantly changing demands on bandwidth and resources, as mobile users move from location to location, and transient hot-spot users defy predictable traffic patterns.

Challenges

Wireless service providers face several challenges. Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are migrating from many existing, disparate networks...each with its own transmission scheme, end devices, and management…to a converged IP network. Commercial and municipal WiFi and WiMAX operators must scale new and existing networks with thousands of nodes across broad geographies, and effectively handle indeterminate user loads. Together, they face other challenges, including:

• Managing the infrastructure in large, extended, heterogeneous networks
• Consolidating multiple management and provisioning systems
• Coordinating network resources to meet constantly changing user traffic patterns
• Securing the end-to-end network from security vulnerabilities
• Automating error-prone manual processes resulting in network configuration errors
• Rapidly and efficiently rolling out new broadband applications and services

Solution

Intelliden’s Intelligent Networking Solutions for Wireless Service Providers enable operators to reliably deliver next gen applications and services over a converged IP infrastructure, while maintaining a high level of security and compliance.

• Dynamic Resource Provisioning (DRP) manages the complete network activation process from the initial element and path configuration, resource availability checks, to on-going dynamic resource allocation and exception handling of IP networks.
• Policy Based Compliance Management (PBCM) provides a single application for managing comprehensive network policies (e.g. regulatory, industry, security and operational), continually validating all network configuration changes against these policies, and intelligently resolving any non-compliant conditions.
• Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) automates configuration changes to heterogeneous network elements based on the real-time state of the devices thereby preventing errors and service outages, and is optimized for the demanding and evolving requirements of fixed and mobile wireless networks.

Benefits

Intelliden’s Intelligent Network Solutions for Wireless Service Providers provide the following benefits:

• Supports large, extended networks consisting of heterogeneous devices
• Facilitates migration from disparate networks to a converged IP network
• Enables dynamic allocation of network resources to meet changing and unanticipated user demands
• Meets requirements for network QoS, resiliency, and reliability
• Eliminates time-consuming and error-prone manual scripting and device activation processes
• Automates support and delivery of broadband applications and services