Alcatel-Lucent 9900 manual Enhance End-to-End Business Operations, Improve Network Performance

Enhance End-to-End Business Operations

By deploying the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG in your network you can enhance end-to-end business oper- ations, from network performance to marketing.

Improve Network Performance

All applications that run on IP net- works are traditionally reduced to a single dimension — volume (or band- width). Quite simply, “data is data”. As wireless networks become more IP-like — both in terms of technol- ogy and how subscribers use those networks — experience suggests we can design, engineer, optimize, ma- nage, and price the networks by this dimension, bandwidth.

This operating principle is funda- mentally unsound in wireless IP networks. Two applications that may consume exactly the same bandwidth may have widely dispro- portionate impacts on other critical

resources in the network, such as airtime (Figure 2).

Every IP application that transmits over the wireless data network consumes many different resources in the network. Service providers need to still scale applications by band- width, but must also scale other resources, such as radio-access airtime, device-network signaling and base station channels.

Data is no longer “just data” on wireless IP networks. And that means to properly design, engineer, optimize, manage, price, and ultimately differentiate NGN Wireless IP networks, service providers must have never-before- required visibility into how packets and flows impact every constrained resource in the wireless network — from the packet core all the way down into the radio access network.

The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG is the first product to market in a new product category, which enables wireless operators to operationally connect IP-layer behaviors to Wireless-layer impacts, and to opti- mize, manage, and build out their networks accordingly

In addition, an optional managed service component can relieve your network operations personnel of the burden of monitoring the network for performance-impacting events. This helps you defer or postpone costs associated with training and developing the subject matter experts required to leverage the forensic/root-cause analysis capa- bility of the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG and propose/implement mitigation policies.

Figure 2. Bandwidth and Airtime in Wireless IP networks

Wireless Data Traffic by Bandwidth

(24-hour period)

Wireless Data Traffic by Airtime

(24-hour period)

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