Archive for September, 2011

Webinar: The Importance of Ethernet Backhaul Performance Visibility

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista In an upcoming webinar, Patrick Donegan of Heavy Reading and my colleague, Juan Prieto, will be discussing how a tailored service performance reporting portfolio can help wholesale Carrier Ethernet providers achieve market differentiation through network and service quality visualization. The webinar will explain how and [...]

The Impact of Heterogeneous Networks on Network Planning

By Bernard Breton, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, InfoVista As wireless operators map their plans for 4G, one concept that is gaining substantial ground is the notion of heterogeneous networks. Current 2G/3G wireless networks are largely homogeneous and rely on network topology that is dominated by macro-cells. This type of network is ideal when coverage is [...]

Service Assurance In Mobile Backhaul Networks

By Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading As some of the world’s leading mobile operators continue to remind us in their quarterly results, the roll-out of packet backhaul has been key to mitigating potential cost escalation associated with the transition from a voice centric to a data centric revenue model in mobile services. Many operators [...]

Do you Take Your Smart Phone to Bed?

By Chris Waters, Business Analyst, InfoVista The common smartphone originally emerged as a means to converge mobile phone, pager, PDA, computer and fax capabilities into a single device. When coupled with major applications like a calendar, email, calculator, clock, note pad and games, the appeal naturally took hold. Today, the smartphone’s universality continues to grow [...]