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Network Performance Management: A Solution for Customer Experience Management on Mobile Networks

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista TM Forum recently published the results of a global survey of communications service providers (CSPs) in an attempt to answer the question: What do customers want, and how can CSPs provide them with it? This is a hotly debated topic and an issue that has [...]

Telecom Industry Predictions for 2012: A Big Year for Communications Service Providers

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista 2012 is going to be a big year for communications service providers (CSPs) around the world. Though there is no way of knowing what will come to pass in the next 12 months, many industry players have made predictions about what’s to come. Common among [...]

New InfoVista Solution Helps Mobile Operators Transition to LTE and Assure Service Quality over All-IP Infrastructure

By Marc Lippe, Director of Field and Worldwide Marketing, InfoVista According to a new Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) report, 285 mobile operators have committed to commercial LTE network deployments or are engaged in technology trials and testing. Although LTE is quickly becoming a popular solution to the growing demand for bandwidth fuelled by the [...]

Season’s Greetings: A Look Back on 2011

By Marc Lippe, Director of Field and Worldwide Marketing, InfoVista Happy holidays! 2011 has been an exciting year here at InfoVista, full of exciting announcements, international conferences and a lot of interesting conversations with our customers regarding the network, service and application performance management needs. We’re also very excited about where the communications industry in [...]

Management World Americas: What Constitutes the ‘Customer Experience’?

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista As I previously mentioned, TM Forum’s Management World Americas took place this week. The conference agenda was a busy one, with some nice traffic to our Catalyst stand in Forumville and informative presentations from more than 100 speakers across seven different summits covering everything from [...]

Management World Americas: 3 ‘Musts’ for Fueling Service Providers’ Performance

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista Yesterday marked the official kick-off of TM Forum’s Management World Americas, taking place November 8-10 in Orlando, Florida. This year’s theme is about fueling innovation and new revenues and answering the question: “How can service providers effectively deliver and assure profitable, new offerings?”

The Future of Online Internet Traffic

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista Recently, Analysys Mason analysts Rupert Wood and Terry Norman led a webinar on future data traffic trends and the big picture across fixed and mobile. According to the analysts, trends currently developing in the industry will more than likely decrease Internet traffic rather than increase [...]

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 [...]

Introducing the End-to-End Mobile Service Quality e-Book

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field Marketing, InfoVista Last week brought much excitement for us here at InfoVista as we went live with an initiative we’re very proud of—the launch and distribution of our End-to-End Mobile Service Quality e-Book. I invite you to view it here. The e-Book features contributions from recognized mobile industry analysts, [...]

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

Marc Lippe, EMEA Marketing Director, 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 beyond having to [...]