SHANGHAI, July 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
SK Telecom
realizes complete QoS visibility across multi-vendor mobile network
with most advanced, industry-standards-based performance indicators
from Accedian platform.
Accedian Networks, the Performance Assurance Solution
Specialist, today announced the deployment of its market leading
performance monitoring solution across the SK
Telecom (NYSE: SKM) mobile network -- encompassing 12,000
locations across the six largest cities in South Korea, with plans to extend coverage to
all sites serving over 28 million subscribers nationwide. The
deployment is key to SK Telecom's commitment to optimizing
performance using standards-based performance monitoring indicators
as they migrate towards the intelligent, SDN-controlled networks
that will deliver 5G mobile technology.
Accedian's virtualized solutions collect precise network
performance indicators in real time from SK Telecom's existing
network infrastructure, as well as from Accedian's NFV-based
(network function virtualization) performance assurance modules.
The solution is also in use by over 100 Accedian customers in 35
countries, with a well-established history of delivering the most
granular, open network metrics in real-time.
SK Telecom operates a sophisticated multi-vendor network,
ensuring each supports the RFC-5357 two way active measurement
protocol (TWAMP), a vendor-independent, global performance
monitoring standard. Accedian's centralized monitoring solution
acts as a uniform instrumentation layer, centralizing a real-time
view of network performance throughout the network. Where access
equipment lacks TWAMP standards support, SK Telecom installs
Accedian's Nano smart SFP modules to ensure ubiquitous network
coverage from end-to-end.
With the Accedian solution, SK Telecom improves network
performance by:
- Ensuring service performance standards using key KPIs that can
proactively mitigate risks to customer experience proactively
- Detecting traffic bursts and optimizing their LTE network to
reduce Quality of Service (QoS) impact
- Locating bottlenecks for improved overall capacity
- Identifying and correcting any network mis-configurations
immediately
- Optimizing fault failover to eliminate service downtime and
improve network quality
Having this real-time stream of Quality of Experience (QoE)
metrics integrated with SK Telecom's own performance assurance
network management system (NMS) and SDN controllers allows them to
optimize end-to-end user experience with performance trending and
proactive fault management. Direct reporting to operational and
business support systems (OSS/BSS) allows all regions in the SK
Telecom network to monitor performance, 24/7.
"At SK Telecom, best-possible quality of customer service and
experience is at the heart of our reputation and our business,"
stated Choi, Seung-won, Senior Vice President and Head of Network
Solution Office, SK Telecom. "Partnering with Accedian helps us
ensure the highest levels of QoS and QoE, which is particularly
important as we continue to extend our network towards 5G, and to
expand coverage with small cells, making the need for 24x7 end to
end network visibility critical. Accedian's performance monitoring
solutions make this possible. SK Telecom selected Accedian's TWAMP
performance assurance solution specifically as the quality
indicator and standard for LTE business-to-business networks."
"SK Telecom is a premier example of a mobile service provider
pushing network performance and technology to the limit," stated
Accedian Founder, President, and CEO, Patrick Ostiguy. "They are early adopters and
innovators, and their efforts result in the extremely high levels
of service and experience quality their customers have come to
expect. Accedian is honored to help support their performance
assurance objectives through our comprehensive solutions, built
with providers like SK Telecom in mind."
Assuring LTE & small cell backhaul, SLA-backed business
services, financial WANs, data center interconnect, service
provider SDN optimization, and more, Accedian's solutions offer
per-flow measurements with unrivaled, microsecond precision;
ultra-granular sub-second sampling; and sync-free one-way results.
This gives service providers like SK Telecom the end-to-end network
visibility required to optimize and assure services as their
offerings scale and evolve, with programmable hardware, automation,
and reporting platforms that grow along with them.
About Accedian Networks
Accedian Networks® is the Performance Assurance Solution
Specialist for mobile networks and enterprise-to-data center
connectivity. Open, multi-vendor interoperable and programmable
solutions go beyond standard-based performance assurance to deliver
Network State+™, the most complete view of network health.
Automated service activation testing and real-time performance
monitoring feature unrivalled precision and granularity, while
H-QoS traffic conditioning optimizes service performance. Since
2005, Accedian has delivered platforms assuring hundreds of
thousands of cell sites
globally. http://www.Accedian.com Twitter: @Accedian
About SK Telecom
SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM, KSE: 017670), established in 1984, is
Korea's largest telecommunications company with more than 28
million mobile subscribers, accounting for around 50% of the
market. The company reached KRW 17.164
trillion in revenue in 2014. As the world's first company to
commercialize CDMA, CDMA 2000 1x, CDMA EV-DO and HSDPA networks, SK
Telecom launched the nation's first LTE service in July 2011. SK Telecom also became the world's
first mobile carrier to commercialize 150Mbps LTE-Advanced in
June 2013 and 225Mbps LTE-Advanced in
June 2014 through Carrier Aggregation
(CA). In line with its efforts to swiftly move towards the
next-generation mobile network system, or 5G, it successfully
commercialized 300Mbps tri-band LTE-A CA. As of the end of
March 2015, the company has over 17.4
million LTE and LTE-Advanced subscribers. Based on its strength in
network operations business, SK Telecom is seeking new growth
engines through three innovative platforms namely Lifestyle
Enhancement Platform, Advanced Media Platform and IoT Service
Platform. For more information, please
visit http://www.sktelecom.com or email
to press@sktelecom.com.
Merritt Group, Inc. for Accedian Networks, +1-571-382-8513,
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