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TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies' OSS Solution Offers Service Providers an Integrated Display of Network Fault and Performance

October 22, 2001

Enhanced Agilent NETeXPERT-based Solution Protects Revenues by Providing Real-time Picture of Network and Service Health

This unified display uses advanced visual interfaces that combine graphical and GIS (geographical information system) displays to provide a complete, real-time picture of network and service health, which is key to increasing network availability, improving customer satisfaction, reducing customer turnover (churn) and protecting revenues. The latest improvements can increase the solution's overall performance by up to 300 percent over the previous release.

"Service Providers can provide better service and reduce customer churn by speeding up their identification, analysis and resolution of network faults before performance and customers are affected," said Verne Anton, Gartner principal analyst. "A single system that tightly integrates fault and performance data is likely to eliminate the cost and complexity of combining separate products, and increases return on investment. Any solution that empowers network managers to perform their jobs better will certainly enhance the service assurance process."

"Service providers need to protect revenues and profit margins by reducing operating costs and proactively managing service quality," said Jack Trautman, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Communications Management Solutions business. "With Agilent's integrated service assurance solution, providers get quick visual summaries of live and historical network and service activities. This offers a more efficient way to manage quality of service and network health, and helps increase revenues through improved customer satisfaction and retention."

    Key enhancements include:
    --  real-time alert charting, filtering and journaling to
        efficiently manage events;
    --  GIS maps to pinpoint network events and statistics for any
        domain;
    --  integrated trending reports, data management, and performance
        visualization tools to accelerate analysis; and
    --  enhanced policy builders that give users the ability to
        quickly identify root causes.

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