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Video: How Wholesale Backhaul Service Providers and Mobile Network Operators Can Maximize the Benefits of Migrating to Ethernet Backhaul (Part 2)

By Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista As introduced in my blog post earlier this week, here is my interview with Ari Banerjee, senior analyst of Heavy Reading, on the topic of how service quality visualization powered by Vista360, InfoVista’s award-winning Web 2.0 performance assurance portal, can help wholesale backhaul service providers [...]

How Wholesale Backhaul Service Providers and Mobile Network Operators Can Maximize the Benefits of Migrating to Ethernet Backhaul (Part 1)

By Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista In a turbulent economic climate and commoditized industry, primarily driven by price erosion, many are wondering how wholesale providers can reinvent themselves to sustain their value and increase their margins.  Several industries went through a similar challenge and while none predicted a possible turn-around, smart [...]

InfoVista Featured in Gartner’s 2011 Application Performance Monitoring Magic Quadrant

By Cyril Doussau de Bazingnan, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista InfoVista is pleased to have been included in this year’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Magic Quadrant.  Gartner recognized our product suite’s support of three out of the five dimensions it has defined for APM functionality, namely end-user experience monitoring, application runtime, architecture discovery, modeling and display, and application [...]

Maximizing on the Benefits of Ethernet Backhaul Transformation

By Cyril Doussau de Bazingnan Product Marketing Director InfoVista A recent market research report from Infonetics found that 66% of mobile operators have turned to IP/Ethernet solutions as a means to reduce the backhaul costs associated with growing mobile data traffic.  IP/Ethernet-based mobile backhaul appears to be an answer to a prayer for mobile operators [...]

What Makes Service Assurance Hot?

By Cyril Doussau de Bazingnan Product Marketing Director InfoVista In her article “Service assurance getting hotter,” on Connected Planet, Susana Schwartz correctly gauges the rising temperature of service assurance solutions in the telecommunications industry. The need for service assurance is indeed growing, as this category of tools empowers service providers to assess the health of [...]

Service-Centric Performance Assurance Provides a Strong Fit for Enterprise APM Demands

By Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista In a recent report by Jim Frey, research director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), EMA evaluated 18 vendors providing application-aware network performance management solutions.  As Jim highlights in his report, these 18 vendors represent a significant number of application-aware network performance management (ANPM) providers and demonstrate [...]

Timing is Everything

By Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista Imagine if Apple rested on its iPod success and brought us a brand new 4GB iPhone in 2010—with no App store.  Would they still be overflowing with so many preorders? Timing is everything—and the principal also applies to service providers. Today service providers are launching new [...]

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 [...]