Streamline Engineering and Planning
Network planning is based on aver- age models of subscriber usage during busy hours. It assumes average load characteristics per subscriber. But each device, application, and sub- scriber can have highly differing and unpredictable impacts on the network.
The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG helps engineering and planning teams see exactly how subscribers in any given region are using the network, so that the appropriate resources can be added or real- located to accommodate the measured and specific subscriber activities.
Moreover, by providing detailed network usage information, the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG helps engineering and planning teams understand actual usage patterns and perform a reasonable trending analysis that can be used to guard the network against any negative impacts caused by customer concentration on certain applications.
Manage Security
Wireless security requirements are more challenging than wireline security because:
•Attacks can be waged on the net- work using extremely low volume traffic that masks as every day traffic (for example, without packet-specific signatures)
•Attacks can come from within the wireless data network and can leverage mobile-to-mobile communications without crossing a peering point (where IP security tools are often deployed)
•The IP address in the mobile world easily and constantly changes, so tracking potential attackers is a multi-step challenge
The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG provides network security teams with tools specifically designed for wireless data networks that can help identify and manage threats and denials of service.
Develop Targeted Marketing
Beyond network operation, planning and security, the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG can also enhance marketing efforts that directly contribute to subscriber retention and reduce churn.
With the detailed network perform- ance and subscriber information available from the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG, marketing teams can get a better understanding of how much it costs the network to support every subscriber, every application, and every device type. With this information, marketers can determine an ROI for each existing and new service, based not only on the cost of the subsidized device or application royalties (if customer- hosted), but also the fundamental cost to the network.
As a result, you can choose devices and applications that enable max- imum profitability for your market.
