SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 -- ADVA Optical Networking (search for ADVA Optical Networking) and InfoVista have announced a global partnership through which InfoVista's performance-management offering, VistaInsight for Networks, will be paired with ADVA's Etherjack-enabled FSP 150 product family. The companies expect the pairing will enable service providers to confidently offer exacting service level agreements (SLAs) with their intelligent Ethernet offerings and deliver customers real-time access to information on the performance of those services.
ADVA Optical Networking says that with its Etherjack Service Assurance (ESA) feature, service providers for the first time can offer, monitor, and verify Ethernet SLAs. Drawing data from the ADVA FSP 150 equipment, InfoVista's VistaInsight for Networks enables Ethernet customers to see that they are experiencing the performance levels guaranteed in their SLAs. Through VistaInsight for Networks' customer portal, enterprises can monitor data on frame delay, frame delay variation, frame loss, and network availability end-to-end across services. This data gives enterprise customers the confidence that their Ethernet services are as carrier-grade as Frame Relay, ATM, private line, and other traditional offerings with historically strong levels of support for mission-critical business applications, say the companies.
"We are continuing to see strong uptake of our Ethernet services, and one of the key reasons is that we have put in place an infrastructure that enables us to offer Ethernet SLAs as stringent as those offered with traditional services," said Brendan Park, director of strategy with Uecomm, a national Australian carrier offering high-speed broadband data solutions across its own advanced fiber optic network. "More and more businesses recognize the unprecedented value of Ethernet-based business services, and the ability to offer and assure Ethernet SLAs enables them to migrate."
"Pairing VistaInsight for Networks with the Etherjack-enabled FSP 150 family provides a service provider with a turnkey solution for offering differentiated, intelligent Ethernet-based business services," said Jean-Luc Valente, senior vice president, marketing and strategic alliances with InfoVista. "With this joint solution in place, the service provider is assured that its Ethernet services will deliver the guaranteed performance across its own and leased infrastructures, and the enterprise customer will receive the highest degree of service at all times."
Added Fred Ellefson, vice president, Etherjack alliances, with ADVA Optical Networking, "This is a powerful partnership because, together, our solutions eliminate what has been the leading impediment to broad-scale adoption of intelligent Ethernet services by business customers: the ability to meaningfully track and monitor SLAs. With our Etherjack technology and InfoVista's VistaInsight for Networks supporting Ethernet SLAs, service providers are finding an eager enterprise customer base for Ethernet-based offerings supporting Internet access, Ethernet private lines, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and other mission-critical applications."
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