Nokia Siemens Networks, EMC Team for IP Network Management

Nice, France – Nokia Siemens Networks and EMC Corp. are working on a joint solution to improve the ability of service providers to shorten network down-time, boost service availability, lower churn and reduce operational costs by improving the management of their IP networks.

The solution is being demonstrated at TM Forum Management World this week in Nice, France.

The co-developed solution will offer end-to-end visibility and fault management for both MPLS VPN and IP routing protocol configurations in multitechnology and multivendor environments. The solution is based on the mobile network management of Nokia Siemens Networks’ NetAct, which will be enhanced with IP domain visibility provided by the EMC Smarts automated IT management solution.

In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks will continue to resell and provide system integration capabilities for EMC’s line of automated IT management solutions, which offer discovery, compliance, analysis, automation and visualization across the IP and IT infrastructure.

“IP networks are increasingly important as key drivers of network convergence. The variety of access technologies and devices used in the future will put increasing demands on the end-to-end network performance and on IP service assurance operational costs,” said Juhani Hintikka, head of operations and business software business unit, Nokia Siemens Networks. “Our strategic objective is to support the continuing trend towards IP networks. Our work with EMC will increase the overall visibility and control the service providers have over their networks. The win for service providers can be significant in terms of cost reduction and network quality – and for the customer it delivers an improved individual communications experience.”