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APM for Converged Networks

APM for Converged Networks

Designed to support the monitoring of data, voice and video applications, Tektronix’ Unified Assurance for Converged Networks (UACN) platform delivers comprehensive views of network, service or customer performance across multiple technology types (Mobile, IP and SS7).

Benefit from Proactive Voice Network Management

Through continuous monitoring of signaling session control and media packets sent between network elements, APM provides near real-time visibility of signaling and media performance.

  • Establish alarm thresholds on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to indicate an emerging problem when network performance starts to degrade–before your customers experience problems with their service.
  • Proactive network performance management helps reduce the number of customer complaints, minimizes the time and costs associated with troubleshooting and repair. This has a positive impact on customer satisfaction and churn.

Combining proactive network management with periodic quality reporting enables you to capture and retain more revenue from your customers.

Ensure Video Service Success and Profitability

Comprehensive performance monitoring and analysis tools are critical to the success of service providers who are implementing next-generation networks for video service delivery.

  • Meet superior performance benchmarks while optimizing resources and minimizing costs
  • Fine-tune service offerings based on actual usage and performance metrics.

As a complement to Tektronix' proven signaling and voice media monitoring capabilities, the IPTV solution extends service provider visibility to sharpen network and service performance analysis.

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  • Personalized

    Flexible portlet GUIs enable personalization and customization for dashboards and report displays.

  • Compatible

    Standardization of data models and open web services design accommodate OSS integration with third party applications.

  • Convenient

    Tight integration between applications reduces "swivel chair management" issues faced by multi-service converged network operators.

 

As the foundation for the next-generation of Unified Assurance applications, UACN offers notable enhancements over traditional UA mobile and fixed network solution suite silos.

  • Web based presentation, no client software installation needed
  • End-to-end correlation of signaling and media, across all monitored interfaces
  • Interactive, intuitive dashboards, graphs and reports that drill down to individual calls
  • Enhanced management of alarms, user profiles and security functions
  • Enhanced reporting structure
 
Voice
  • ANSI, ITU: ISUP, IUP, NUP, TUP
  • SIP
  • H.248
  • H.323 (H.225)
  • MGCP
  • ISDN
  • DNS
  • ENUM
  • RTP
  • RTCP
  • H.248 EOCQ
  • H.248 XNQ
  • BICC
  • GSM/UMTS MAP
  • IS41

Video

  • RTP/UDP Multicast Video
  • RTP/UDP Unicast Video
  • RTSP
  • IGMP
 

Multiple Organizations Benefit from APM

  • Network Operations: Proactively monitor and automatically correlate the various customer and network traffic used in delivering network services spanning different networks and comprised of different protocols.
  • Network Engineering/Planning: Optimize capacity and manage just-in-time deployments. Network usage reporting enables carriers to judiciously plan for growth with minimal Capex.
  • Marketing and Sales: Leverage network performance indicators to draw quantitative inferences regarding issues and outages. Develop targeted campaigns and monitor the success of new service uptake by region.
  • Product Management: Ensure hop-by-hop performance of the network from rollout to revenue with information based on actual customer traffic.