Tag Archives: Carrier Ethernet

Cisco Live! London: Service Quality Visualization Taking Hold

By Richard Higgins, Director of Worldwide Strategic Alliances, InfoVista We’re busy gearing up for Cisco Live! in London, taking place next week from January 30 through February 3. Cisco’s flagship event has a well-deserved reputation as one of the industry’s most educational events for the networking industry. Built around four pillars – technical education, technology [...]

Vlog: How Service Differentiation Can Accelerate Carrier Ethernet Revenue

By Christopher Cullan, Product Marketing Manager, Business Services Solutions, InfoVista Due to the rise of ‘dumb pipes,’ communications service providers (CSPs) need to ensure the delivery of high-bandwidth and high-quality service to end-users and can thus accelerate Carrier Ethernet revenue. By combining service-level specifications and bandwidth profiles of Carrier Ethernet with service quality visualization, operators [...]

How Wireless Service Providers Can Make Carrier Ethernet a Competitive Advantage

By Juan Prieto, Product Marketing Manager – Mobile Solutions, InfoVista As the amount of mobile data traffic continues to grow, wireless service providers (WSPs) are increasingly looking to Ethernet backhaul to cope. Next-generation Ethernet backhaul offers the opportunity for WSPs to raise margins by lowering the cost per bit of managing mobile data traffic. However, [...]

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 [...]

The Three Dimensions of Carrier Ethernet Service Assurance

By Christopher Cullan, Product Marketing Manager, Business Services Solutions, InfoVista The market for Carrier Ethernet services is proving to be the communication service provider’s (CSP’s) salvation in this environment of revenue and margin pressure. The popularity of Carrier Ethernet stems from its ability to enable a more rapid and efficient delivery of both the bandwidth [...]

Three Ways To Differentiate With Carrier Ethernet Services

By Christopher Cullan, Product Marketing Manager, Business Services Solutions, InfoVista An important question for product managers of communications service providers (CSPs) in today’s crowded market is “How can I build differentiated services to retain my existing customers and increase revenues?” Standing out from the crowd is essential for success in any competitive market and is [...]

Regardless of Broadband Network Choices, Service Assurance is Needed for Success

By Vikas Trehan, Senior Vice President, Network Performance Management Business Line, Infovista Providing broadband access to Australia is a very hot topic nationally, with different groups debating which approach would work best to service the expansive continent. The Australian Labor Party is proposing a plan to build the National Broadband Network (NBN), which calls for [...]

Direct from Cisco Live 2011 in London!

By Jay Stephenson, Director, Worldwide Strategic Alliances, InfoVista We were pleased to be a part of Cisco Live London this month and enjoyed the opportunity that the meeting offered to build and maintain relationships with the fine people at Cisco. Cisco Live is always a tremendous opportunity to discuss new market trends and learn where [...]

Have We Learned from the iPhone? Part III

Achieving a Holistic Approach to Mobile Service Assurance By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista In my last blog, I talked about maintaining application quality in the face of rising data traffic and customer expectations (i.e. the rapid adoption of the iPhone). I also started to discuss how mobile quality of service is dependent [...]

Have We Learned from the iPhone? Part II

Maintaining Application Quality in the Face of Rising Data Traffic and Customer Expectations By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista If we’ve learned anything from the rapid adoption of the iPhone, it’s this—capacity and bandwidth are quickly becoming both an expectation and a commodity. Service providers no longer face the choice of, “Do I [...]