Ethernet Mobile Backhaul
Assuring Ethernet Backhaul Deployment by Leveraging Lifecycle-Aware Performance Assurance
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| Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Deployment Lifecycle |
As the migration to an Ethernet mobile backhaul offers the opportunity to increase margins by lowering the cost per bit, managing the quality of service (QoS) and performance of packet based networks is proving complex to Wireless Service Providers who lack the experience and toolsets to do so effectively. Although the evolution to Carrier Ethernet might appear as a straightforward strategy, it introduces significant operational challenges:
- Assuring the performance of emulated traditional technologies over Carrier Ethernet
- Guaranteeing the same end-to-end service quality as provided with traditional, legacy wireless backhaul networks
- Rightsizing Ethernet mobile backhaul infrastructure relative to mobile data traffic levels, demographics and geographies
To address these challenges, wireless service providers need a solution capable of consolidating the myriad of data, metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)- generated from various vendor equipment, devices and Element Management Systems (EMS)- and aggregate it into high-level actionable KPIs and Key Quality Indicators (KQI) with a central, collaborative end-to-end view of the network and the quality of its services.
InfoVista’s approach is a Lifecycle-Aware solution that enables wireless service providers to secure a smooth transition from deployment to optimization by monitoring and providing tailored dashboards for each internal organization involved in the migration cycle. This Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) aligned solution combines best-of-breed VistaInsight® for Networks, VistaLink® for SAM and Vista360™, the award winning Web 2.0 collaborative portal. Its proven, cross-functional, multi-service performance assurance platform enables wireless service providers to:
- Effectively manage IP Transport/Aggregation service quality and performance from physical and virtual interfaces (such as EVCs and pseudowires)
- Visualize end-to-end path performance for each CoS by leveraging vendor’s OAMs
- Consolidate multi-vendor metrics to proactively isolate the service degradations sources
- Accelerate Ethernet mobile backhaul migration by empowering staff to make optimal decisions at key points in the backhaul network lifecycle
- Reducing OPEX by optimizing troubleshooting efficiency
