Friday, May 08, 2009

May 8, 2009
Cellular News

Nokia Siemens Networks and EMC Corp. have inked a cooperation deal covering IP network management. ­Core to the deal, the companies are working together on a joint solution to significantly improve the ability of service providers to shorten network down-time and reduce operational costs by improving the management of their IP networks.

Service providers worldwide face the difficult challenge of how to cope with rapidly increasing network traffic without a corresponding increase in revenue. Many aim to differentiate themselves by using IP and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks to offer new services while lowering costs. However, these networks present their own challenges, such as how to achieve network visibility across all technology domains while ensuring real-time service assurance.

The co-developed solution will provide an answer to these challenges by offering end-to-end visibility and fault management for both MPLS VPN and IP routing protocol configurations in multi-technology and multi-vendor environments. The solution is based on the mobile network management of Nokia Siemens Networks’ NetAct, which will be enhanced with IP domain visibility provided by the EMC Smarts automated IT management solution.

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