Press Release
VPIsystems' OnePlanTM Optimizes Latin American Communications Network
ETB Columbia Deploys OnePlan Network Planning System
Holmdel, New Jersey (December 13, 2006) - VPIsystems, the only provider of integrated capacity and network planning software and services for the global telecommunications industry, announced today that ETB Columbia (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota) has successfully deployed its OnePlanTM network planning software system. The new system provides advanced planning and optimization capabilities for ETB's multi-vendor optical mesh and SDH transport ring network in Colombia.
"We are especially pleased to see that OnePlan is enabling ETB to further optimize their existing SDH network, delaying or avoiding the need for new capital expenditures," stated Hank Firey, CEO of VPIsystems. "ETB's experience is indicative of the types of bottom-line benefits carriers can expect when they use OnePlan to prepare their transport legacy networks for the introduction of next generation capabilities and services."
The ETB deployment leverages OnePlan's unique design engines that radically improve planning for current and next generation networks. Instead of the usual disparate planning tools and segmented data, often inconsistent and unmatched to the current network, ETB's OnePlan deployment utilizes:
- An open, relational planning database that provides the entire user community with a single, centralized network modeling and planning environment
- OnePlan Server for centralized data management as well as collaboration capabilities
- OnePlan TransportTM, which models ring and mesh networks, simulating traffic moving through the SDH and optical core network. OnePlan Transport enables "what if" analyses and provides network optimization algorithms, incorporating diversity and other QoS requirements.
- This optimization enables ETB to minimize the amount of new equipment necessary, thereby providing significant operational and capital savings, while reducing planning cycle times
"This deployment furnishes an important business process for ETB with new capabilities that until now have been absent or inadequate." said ETB's Vice President of Network Planning and Provisioning. "Implementing the VPI solution was exceptionally rapid and efficient. We have reaped immediate and significant benefits in our transport network domain, and are positioned to exploit VPI's unique cross-layer planning solutions in other network domains in the future."
About VPIsystems, Inc.
VPIsystems is the only provider of integrated capacity and network planning software and services for the global telecommunications industry. The company's OnePlanTM software system gives telecommunications and multi-service providers the ability to cohesively plan the financial, technical and marketing aspects of their network evolution, for all current and future network types. Headquartered in Holmdel, NJ, and with offices in Europe, Asia, and Australia, VPIsystems' software is used by over 150 communications service providers and network equipment manufacturers to assess current and future capacity needs, and optimally plan their QoS-constrained service networks and underlying transport infrastructure. For further information, visit us at www.vpisystems.com.