Affirmed Networks, in partnership with EMC has unveiled a native virtualized probe and analytics solution for mobile networks that combines Affirmed Networks Active Intelligent Virtualized Probe (vProbe) and monitoring capabilities with EMC’s Real Time Analytics(RTI).
According to Affirmed Networks, the solution will provide mobile operators with greater overall visibility into and across their virtualized networks, improving service levels and overall customer experience. Mobile operators can achieve significant cost savings and improvements related to the overall performance and utilization of their virtualized networks by tapping on the combined Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and probe/packet brokering functions together in one location, said Affirmed Networks.
In addition, the combined solution provides an open access via APIs to data sets to third party reporting tools for actionable business insight, helping CSP harness new use cases in their environment.
Angela Whiteford, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Affirmed Networks
Our collaboration with EMC to deliver a new, integrated and intelligent approach to network monitoring and analytics offers operators a wealth of powerful savings, new capabilities and is squarely in line with the needs of our customers in this area.
David Hudson, Senior Director, Technology, Office of the CTO, EMC Corporation
For Communication Service Providers this means that real-time analytics is essential to manage their network infrastructure, improve the customer experience -- and rapidly discover and implement new ways to generate revenue.