8th December 2008
ARIA NETWORKS ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH IN TELECOM OPERATING EFFICIENCY
"Just-in-time" capacity planning solution to revolutionise operational excellence for next generation telcos
Aria Networks, a leading provider of forecasting, planning and optimisation solutions for Next Generation Networks (NGN) today announces the industry’s first “Just-In-Time” solution to revolutionise the capacity management of Next-Generation Telecom networks.
Aria’s just-In-Time (JIT) Capacity Planning solution provides the ability to improve profitability and strengthen Telecom operators’ business models by emulating the operational-excellence, processes and inventory management that transformed operating performance in other industries such as Manufacturing and Retail.
Telecom operators have historically been forced to operate a “just-in-case” approach to managing their network capacity and resources, often resulting in excess capacity and expenditure. While next generation networks have promised greater efficiencies in principle, the inability to accurately forecast new service and customer demand, the complexities inherent in the planning process, and the long lead times of equipment and plant have forced Telco operators to maintain their “just-in-case” approach, resulting in expenditure levels being consistently higher than expected from their original NGN-based business models.
Aria’s newly released JIT Capacity Planning solution is an integrated solution based on Aria’s customisable iVNT planning suite that enables Telecom operators to more accurately forecast where and when to add new capacity. It removes the expensive and labour-intensive process of planning network capacity and smoothes the process of generating the required vendor-specific equipment orders and work instructions to ensure more timely delivery of the required network resources.
“Telco networks are typically over-built or under-built with negative consequences for CAPEX, OPEX, and an ability to support services or customer growth effectively,” said Paddy Bell, Sales Director of Aria Networks. “The sustained competitive advantage of companies such as Toyota and Wal-Mart, brought about by accurate and lean JIT inventory management, can now be emulated by Telco operators through the use of Aria’s Just-In-Time Capacity Planning solutions.”
Aria CEO, Tony Fallows, added: “The challenges of a tough new economic environment provide an opportunity and create a necessity for Telecom operators to embrace new solutions that will enable them to re-emerge as leaner and more competitive. The application of the unique network and service intelligence in the iVNT planning and optimisation suite provides the capabilities for our customers to effect this change and see a rapid return-on-investment.”
Aria’s JIT Capacity Planning solution supports the planning of physical and logical capacity and is enabled by a combination of iVNT planning modules, iAdapt to federate with other OSS or BSS components, and iCustomise to support process-flow.
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