NEC Private Labels VPIsystems Planning Tools

NEC, a provider of optical networking gear, has entered into an agreement to resell VPIsystems’ OnePlan network planning solution and re-brand the solutions as its own SpectralWave ONP. The Optical Network Planning system will be a customized version of VPIsystems OnePlan that supports NEC products.

Recent market research indicates that laying fiber optic cable costs between $10,000 and $70,000 per mile, depending on location, making it crucial that carriers optimally plan and design their networks in advance of execution and continually update those plans to account for shifting needs during execution.

To that end, NEC customers can use the system to optimally plan and route their new and evolving networks and create detailed design reports, including bills of materials and equipment information. The OnePlan solution will also allow carriers to conduct extensive what-if analyses to discover path impairments and also recommend design corrections.

“OnePlan can do in minutes what would normally have taken days using homegrown methods, which just can’t handle the size and complexity of today’s optical networks,” said Masaru Nishino, manager of the Optical Network Division at NEC Corp.

NEC is the latest equipment manufacturer, joining Huawei, Siemens and others) that have exchanged its proprietary planning tool for a private-label version of VPIsystems' OnePlan OSS.