By Hans Lewis, TMCnet Contributor
SureWest (News – Alert) Communications is deploying Accedian Network’s Performance Assurance Platform to ensure high quality service delivery for its Wireless Carrier Backhaul Ethernet-based mobile backhaul service.
Ken Johnson, VP and GM of Operations of SureWest said, “The Accedian solution provided us the best performance assurance system to meet our customers’ needs. We chose a solution that enables us to deliver the highest quality mobile backhaul services to our wireless operator customers. But we also selected one that we can seamlessly integrate across our entire Carrier Ethernet service portfolio, and the Accedian Performance Assurance Platform gives us that flexibility.” SureWest conducted an extensive evaluation of performance monitoring solutions before selecting the Accedian MetroNID for integration into the network. Accedian Networks (News – Alert), the market-leading developer of Carrier Ethernet Performance Assurance Network Interface Devices (NIDs) and service management solutions. Craig Easley, VP of Marketing at Accedian said, “Accedian is proud to be working with such a recognized innovator. We were confident that our MetroNID solution would meet the demanding set of requirements that SureWest’s wireless operator customers demanded and welcome the opportunity to continue adding value to SureWest’s Wireless Carrier Backhaul service.” The explosive growth of smart phones and mobile broadband devices, coupled with the deployment of next generation mobile broadband applications, is creating a demand for bandwidth that simply cannot be met using the legacy mobile backhaul networks. Existing wireless backhaul networks originally designed for voice have a typical capacity of 1-3 Megabits per cell site and do not accommodate the onslaught of broadband data traffic, where mobile operators are seeing demand for 10-50 Megabits per cell site. SureWest’s fiber- and Ethernet-based networks in both the greater Sacramento and Kansas City regions more than meet this demand. SureWest’s Wireless Carrier Backhaul is an Ethernet-based service that provides the capacity and performance needed for wireless operators to effectively deliver mobile broadband services. Delivering Ethernet mobile backhaul services can be challenging as the mobile network demands precise service quality. Monitoring latency, packet delay variation, packet loss and availability of mobile backhaul services is critical to successfully meeting the wireless operators’ needs and requires robust performance assurance to ensure that the mobile backhaul network meets these needs around the clock. Before deploying the MetroNIDs in its network, SureWest compared them against a number of alternatives. The decision criteria included not only performance assurance monitoring and reporting features, but SureWest also compared performance, interface density and power consumption. All aspects for deploying the most efficient service performance infrastructure were evaluated. Read here about how Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, a provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks, today announced its Caracal family of Ethernet switches (VSC7428, VSC7429) for Carrier Ethernet, mobile backhaul and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTx) Passive Optical Networks (PON) applications. These new Carrier Ethernet ICs, Caracal switches depict network timing and performance monitoring capabilities that are extremely required for migrating mobile backhaul or packet-based 3G and 4G wireless networks.
Hans Lewis is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Marisa Torrieri
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