DECMEMBER 13, 2006 -- ETB Columbia (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota) has successfully deployed VPIsystems' (search for VPIsystems) OnePlan network planning software system. The new system provides planning and optimization capabilities for ETB's multi-vendor optical mesh and SDH transport ring network in Colombia.
"We are especially pleased to see that OnePlan is enabling ETB to further optimize their existing SDH network, delaying or avoiding the need for new capital expenditures," stated Hank Firey, CEO of VPIsystems. "ETB's experience is indicative of the types of bottom-line benefits carriers can expect when they use OnePlan to prepare their transport legacy networks for the introduction of next-generation capabilities and services."
The ETB deployment leverages OnePlan's design engines that improve planning for current and next-generation networks. The deployment uses an open, relational planning database that provides the entire user community with a single, centralized network modeling and planning environment. The associated OnePlan Server provides centralized data management as well as collaboration capabilities. The OnePlan Transport tool, which models ring and mesh networks, simulates traffic moving through the SDH and optical core network. OnePlan Transport enables "what if" analyses and provides network optimization algorithms, incorporating diversity and other QoS requirements. This optimization enables ETB to minimize the amount of new equipment necessary, thereby providing significant operational and capital savings, while reducing planning cycle times, according to VPIsystems.
"This deployment furnishes an important business process for ETB with new capabilities that until now have been absent or inadequate." said ETB's vice president of network planning and provisioning. "Implementing the VPI solution was exceptionally rapid and efficient. We have reaped immediate and significant benefits in our transport network domain, and are positioned to exploit VPI's unique cross-layer planning solutions in other network domains in the future."
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