Archive for the year 2009

Investing in Best of Breed Performance Assurance Platforms Increases Service Profitability

Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista Managed service providers (MSPs) are seeking to increase their profitability and market share by offering innovative services that enable large enterprises to optimize the cost of managing their IT and network infrastructures, while at the same time ensuring the optimum delivery of mission-critical applications. As an extension [...]

Realizing the True Benefits of Ethernet Mobile Backhaul

By Ranga Thittai, Product Manager, InfoVista The need to keep pushing profits as mobile data traffic explodes and an impending move toward LTE may quite clearly signal the need to roll out an Ethernet backhaul. But are you well prepared to realize the true benefits of Carrier Ethernet as a cost effective transport medium? As [...]

The Opportunities and Challenges of Next Generation Ethernet Backhaul

By Vikas Trehan, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, InfoVista There is no question that mobile networks are experiencing a period of unprecedented data traffic growth. As wireless data applications have proliferated, mobile service providers have derived renewed revenue growth from mobile data services. While we can be sure that wireless data applications and [...]

France’s Fourth 3G Mobile License: Data Traffic Growth vs Service Quality?

Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista French cable operator Numericable and Virgin Mobile France recently announced they won’t be bidding for France’s fourth 3G mobile license, a move that will probably leave Internet provider Iliad Free as the only candidate. In any case, grabbing the fourth mobile license will be challenging, even [...]

Staying in Front of Customer QoE with Trends in QoS

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista Everyone would agree that ensuring QoE is key to having (and keeping) happy customers. The problem is that a customer’s “quality expectations” are a bit of a moving target. For example, a residential customer may want a fast Internet connection when downloading a YouTube movie [...]