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TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive Solution for Monitoring, Troubleshooting SIGTRAN for Converged Networks

Posted on: Monday, 12 February 2007, 03:03 CST

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced the most comprehensive solutions for monitoring and troubleshooting new complex SIGTRAN networks. The newly enhanced QoS Analyzer and Session Trace applications further extend the assureME application portfolio by simplifying the process of managing converged networks (SS7 over IP or circuit-switched). Network quality is ensured through rapid identification and analysis of potential issues, and in-depth troubleshooting for early problem resolution.

Deploying SIGTRAN is a key step in managing surging SS7 traffic and enabling new services such as voice over IP which deliver higher network efficiencies and significant operating expenditure reductions. As telecommunications service providers deploy these SIGTRAN networks, they look for familiar ways to manage the converged networks. As this takes place, the network is extremely susceptible to configuration, traffic load and interworking issues. Agilent's QoS Analyzer prioritizes the most critical service and network problems for rapid diagnosis. The solution enables wireless and wireline operators to track a new extensive set of key performance indicators (KPIs), to manage SIGTRAN networks, and to deliver an acceptable service experience.

Agilent's Session Trace has evolved to provide critical new capabilities to help operators troubleshoot SIGTRAN networks. Customer, service and network problems are detailed from session down to packet decode of signaling and service messages. Combined, these solutions provide rapid problem resolution in three clicks: notification, context and troubleshooting. Further extending their industry proven capabilities, both solutions are integrated into the workflow of operations and engineering, enabling the easy transfer and sharing of information, and problem diagnosis across departments.

"Agilent has the longest history of monitoring signaling networks in the industry and leads the market in this area," said Tom Walls, Agilent vice president and general manager, Assurance Solutions Division. "We've leveraged that experience and technology to provide two new applications for SIGTRAN: QoS Analyzer and Session Trace for SIGTRAN, which simplify the management of converged networks and greatly accelerate real-time deployments."

The benefits of Agilent's QoS Analyzer for SIGTRAN include:

ensuring network and service problems are not ignored with easily configured key performance indicators (KPIs) and thresholds;

rapidly detecting and resolving protocol interworking problems as messages traverse from circuit-switched to IP stacks through new nodes to maintain expected network quality;

assuring that routing algorithms have been set up correctly to balance the load across the network and that bottlenecks are not occurring; and

spotting real-time, logical link-load failures or mis-configurations to significantly reduce outage times.

The benefits of Agilent's Session Trace for SIGTRAN include:

rapid resolution of SIGTRAN problems with a simple, intuitive sequence diagram depicting a complex session;

fastest SIGTRAN fault-time-to-fix with one-line error messages to help determine problem cause; and

business-friendly solution that easily integrates into the workflow of operations and engineering.

Availability

The Session Trace is now available and the QoS Analyzer is expected to be available by the third calendar quarter of 2007.

More information about the QoS Analyzer for SIGTRAN and Session Trace is available at: www.agilent.com/comms/QoSAnalyzerSIGTRAN and www.agilent.com/comms/SessionTrace.

About assureME

Agilent's assureME portfolio of solutions enables users to measure subscribers' experience, putting a customer-centric perspective on traditional network assurance. assureME solutions leverage Agilent's leadership in the operations support system market by adding customer- and service-specific measurements to its broad collection of network data measurement capabilities.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

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Source: Business Wire

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