Technology and Strategic Alliances

InfoVista is a member of ADVA's Etherjack Alliance Program to simplify and speed the deployment of intelligent Ethernet services. This is a selective partnering program that ensures compatibility and interoperability with ADVA's Etherjack equipment. By participating in the program, InfoVista helps to minimize the time a carrier must spend developing back office systems and performing interoperability testing.ADVA Optical Networking’s Etherjack technology works with InfoVista's VistaInsight® for Networks for managing and monitoring Ethernet SLAs. Working with the Etherjack Service Assurance (ESA) capability found in the FSP 150, InfoVista's performance management solution collects ESA data from the Etherjack devices, stores it in a database and provides customized web based SLA reports for end-users, as well as forecasting tools for carrier NOC and planning groups.Latest Press Release

• ADVA Optical Networking and InfoVista Partnership Supports Mass-Market Adoption of Ethernet Services

InfoVista is part of the Alcatel-Lucent Operational Support Systems (OSS) Partner Program as a Connected partner. This is a selective partnering program with best-of-breed application developers to produce interoperable, pre-certified, domain specific solutions. Alcatel-Lucent and InfoVista work on a proactive basis to provide service providers interoperability that fulfills their OSS requirements, allowing them to create a variety of new, profitable services rapidly and with confidence.

The InfoVista® Extension Module for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM), developed by InfoVista and Alcatel-Lucent, provides customers with a multi-vendor management solution in the rapidly growing IP space. Cooperation and roadmap sharing between InfoVista and Alcatel-Lucent ensure continued operational compatibility.

 Solutions Brief

• Service Assurance for Carrier Ethernet and IP-VPN Services, including Mobile Backhaul

Latest Press Release

• InfoVista Reaches Connected+ Status for Alcatel-Lucent Connected Partner Program to Ensure Ongoing Compatibility with Alcatel-Lucent’s 5620 SAM

Starting in 2000, InfoVista recognized the importance of delivering proven interoperability with Cisco products to maximize success of IT operations for our mutual customers. This strategy helps customers minimize cost, risk and time of implementation, thereby leading to higher Cisco customer satisfaction, reduced impact on industry leading service support and successful IT project cycles.

Generally speaking, InfoVista software provides broad coverage of Cisco solutions, including  (but not limited to) IP Next Generation Networks, Ethernet Mobile Backhaul, Managed VPN services and Application Aware networking. Our products focus on Cisco equipment and instrumentation technologies with preconfigured performance monitoring, testing, analysis and reporting integrations. This includes integrated performance reporting on Cisco IP routers, Ethernet switches, network access devices (CPE), CMTS, ATM routers and switches, Wi-Fi equipment and any device supporting CB QoS & CAR (QoS) Mibs.

As a member of the Cisco Developer Network (CDN) program, InfoVista develops complementary and compatible technologies, enabling Cisco to continuously expand its solution offerings to customers of all sizes. InfoVista has been selected to participate in this program by demonstrating strategic, best-in-class interoperability that enables operational excellence and unsurpassed compatibility with networks built using Cisco equipment.

Through participation in the CDN program, InfoVista's performance assurance products and solutions continue to be developed and tested for interoperability with specific Cisco technologies, enabling customers to reduce project risk and streamline service support interaction. The off-the-shelf support also helps to streamline the implementation of Cisco solutions into service provider and enterprise environments.

InfoVista solutions are also integrated with Cisco instrumentation and test technologies, including Cisco IP SLA and Ethernet OAM. Here we configure end-to-end service tests that allow us to provide valuable SLA quality metrics for managed VPN services. InfoVista also supports NetFlow and NBAR for application-level usage analysis and the Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM) for application performance monitoring.

Press Releases

• Ventelo Selects InfoVista to Take Reporting Capabilities to a New Level

• InfoVista Extends Relationship with Cisco to Deliver Proactive Service Assurance Solution to Service Providers

A leading innovator of dynamic resource optimization solutions that improve the capacity and performance of mobile networks, Eden Rock Communications has amassed unique expertise in both the system design of 4G products within OEMs and the deployment of 4G networks within operators. Eden Rock has leveraged its team’s unique expertise with 4G technology innovation, algorithm design, product development, and network deployment in order to cross conventional boundaries in the creation of Eden Rock’s novel dynamic resource optimization technologies. Eden Rock’s initiative has spawned numerous inventions and resulted in Eden Rock’s highly-innovative SON solution. Eden Rock has established a formidable IPR position with more than 70 SON-related patents/patent applications.

Press Releases

• InfoVista’s Innovative Self-Optimizing Network Solution to Automate Radio Optimization, Maximize RAN Performance and Reduce OPEX

The incorporation of key features of InfoVista's flagship performance management software, VistaInsight for Networks, enables Huawei to significantly differentiate its product offerings and provide service providers unparalleled visibility into the performance of their networks and - by extension - assure the best possible quality of service for the end user.

VistaInsight for Networks has been verified to support Huawei's Quidway AR Series Service Routers and the Quidway NE Series Core Switching Routers. The verification includes automatic probe creation and discovery on the AR Series with a comparative support for NQA probes on the NE40, 40E, 80, 80E and 5000E Routers. This will enable the collection and analysis of packet delay, jitter and loss parameters essential in providing carrier class Service Level Agreements (SLA) to customers.

As Juniper Networks operations support systems (OSS) Alliance partner, InfoVista develops and delivers integrated solutions that extend the functionality of Juniper Networks products to deliver robust and flexible network management solutions.

In total accordance with Juniper MINT vision, InfoVista solution strives at translating business strategy into network operations. By combining strengths, InfoVista and Juniper deliver a high value added solution for demanding customers. Deployment of InfoVista’s comprehensive set of solutions highlights Juniper’s superior hardware capabilities and provides competitive edge.

Solutions Brief

• Juniper Networks and InfoVista: Proven Monitoring Solutions for High-Performance Enterprise Networks

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