EXFO Announces Service Assurance Solution for LTE

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering announced today that its Brix System for network service assurance will now support active and passive monitoring for wireless networks utilizing long-term evolution (LTE) standards.

Built on a distributed and scalable architecture, the LTE monitoring solution focuses on end-to-end QoS and QoE monitoring, enabling service providers to monitor their LTE network at multiple service delivery layers including control plane, data plane and service plane. By combining this solution with EXFO’s portfolio of equipment, the company says it can now offer a unique, single-source solution that can help service providers improve their quality of service while reducing their capital and operational expenses.

The emerging high-bandwidth services enabled by LTE make the testing, monitoring and troubleshooting of QoS and customer QoE more important than ever. A centralized and scalable service assurance solution is essential to allow operators to enhance and optimize the performance of LTE networks and services while minimizing human intervention, and thus, reducing costs. EXFO claims to be one of the only providers that can supply a proven, end-to-end service assurance solution for the LTE networks of the future.

EXFO has been supplying test and service assurance solutions in the global telecom industry for 25 years. The company will be at Mobile World Congress next week to demonstrate its end-to-end assessment solution for complete mobile network testing and monitoring throughout the entire lifecycle – construction, service turn-up, service assurance and troubleshooting.

“EXFO is in a unique position to provide a fully integrated, end-to-end LTE service assurance solution that other vendors simply can’t match,” said Vivian Hudson, VP and general manager of EXFO Service Assurance. “With this combination of extended LTE capabilities and proven service assurance platform, operators are now able to reduce their capital expenses and streamline their network operations to lower their operating costs.”