Press Release
VPIsystems and Huawei Announce OEM Agreement that Helps Huawei's Carrier Customers Plan Their Networks
Chicago - NXTcomm (June 21, 2007) - VPIsystems, the leading provider of network resource planning software and services for the global telecommunications industry, and Huawei Technologies, a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced that they have entered an OEM agreement for Huawei to resell a customized VPIsystems OnePlanTM Transport planning solution.
Under this OEM agreement, Huawei is able to offer the customized OnePlan Transport planning solution to its customers under a private label arrangement, as part of the OptiX MDS 6600 system for planning telecommunications networks. This solution allows Huawei's customers to automatically and optimally plan and analyze their networks. Huawei was the fastest growing vendor in optical networks and was ranked No.2 with 11.3 percent global market share in 2006, according to Ovum-RHK.
"VPIsystems' advanced planning software has excellent market potential," said Jeffrey Gao, senior vice president of optical networking product lines at Huawei. "As network resource planning is emerging as an important industry trend, Huawei is focused on E2E operation software tools for carriers. Customized solutions bring more value to our customers and strengthen our industry leadership."
"Intelligent network planning software solutions have become a necessity for successfully implementing next generation networks, because the new architecture and associated technologies are too complex for traditional planning methods," said Dr. Yufei Wang, senior vice president of technology at VPIsystems. "Huawei understands the importance of this shift, and has selected VPIsystems as its partner to provide an integrated solution. This partnership is a natural fit for Huawei and VPIsystems, as we are both working with carriers worldwide and solidifying our leadership positions in the telecommunications marketplace."
Huawei is reselling the customized OnePlan Transport planning solution under this OEM agreement, as well as using the solution internally to support its sales engineering process. "Huawei is glad to work with VPIsystems to expand into a wider market, while continuing to serve our rapidly growing customers around the world," said Zhang Wei, director of application software of optical network product lines at Huawei.
About OnePlan
OnePlan offers communications service providers a single, cross-domain (geography, technology, discipline and network domain) integrated capacity and network planning capability, OnePlan has become the system of choice for any carrier planning transition to a next-generation, IP-enabled network. Through its modular design, OnePlan provides a scalable solution that can start as a single technology module, and grow to a high-availability system spanning multiple network layers where OnePlan automates all network planning, engineering and decommissioning activities.
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.
About Huawei Technologies, Inc.
Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world. The company is dedicated to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and potential growth for its customers. Huawei's products and solutions are deployed in over 100 countries and serve 31 of the world's top 50 operators, as well as over one billion users worldwide.For more information, please visit http://www.huawei.com.