Successful Network Bandwidth Management and Quality of Service via Capacity Monitoring and Capacity Planning
Overview
Anticipation of subscriber-driven network and service growth is a high priority for service providers, especially in the mobile data and broadband service markets. To plan accurately, mobile, broadband and business service providers need knowledge of existing resource and service saturation from the core network out to the service or access domains, as well as knowledge of capacity growth trends. With this information, they can:
- Balance the deployment of services across the infrastructure
- Ensure efficient use of investments
- Make the most cost-effective decisions
- Satisfy customers by ensuring well-behaved network traffic, and availability and quality of services
Business service providers, in particular, need to be able to track usage patterns within a managed service, and alert their own account representatives when service levels are approaching agreed-upon bandwidth thresholds. This is especially important when service providers and enterprises are trying to get the most out of their existing infrastructures—in other words, when they want to “push” their networks and servers but not to the point where services are disrupted or degraded.
InfoVista’s VistaInsight® for Networks and 5View™ solutions equip service providers with service assurance /network performance management solutions that allow them to adopt a holistic, visionary approach to converged next-generation services, optimize the efficiency of their network infrastructure and operations, and plan and deliver quality revenue-generating network services. The solutions furnish service providers with the real-time visibility, historical performance and trend analysis required to accurately forecast and plan capacity levels. It also empowers them to accurately forecast where network upgrades, redeployments or expansions will be required—whether within the network core, edge, and aggregation layers, or the mobile packet core and broadband access domains.
Key Features
VistaInsight® for Networks, InfoVista’s network performance management solution for capacity planning, provides:
- Proactive network capacity management and on-demand reporting of vendor-agnostic IP/MPLS transport infrastructures for business service, mobile and broadband networks
- Accurate baseline, utilization and trend analysis to ensure that core, aggregation and access network capacities meet current and future customer demands
- An informative, intuitive portal that enables customers to investigate performance problems, make proactive decisions on capacity adjustments, verify SLAs, ensure quality of service and appropriate class-of-service policies, confirm business application usage and maintain efficient use of subscribed resources
A platform for InfoVista’s complementary Mobile Knowledge Pack and Broadband Knowledge Pack products, which enable network engineering, operations and planning to further extend InfoVista’s capacity monitoring and network bandwidth management capabilities into the mobile and broadband domains
- Mobile Knowledge Pack features—such as 95th percentile, busy hour and 3-month forecasts, together with topology awareness—facilitate capacity planning and engineering of packet core elements in unison with transmission nodes
- Broadband Knowledge Pack
features—such as the monitoring of DSLAM uplink port interface bandwidth levels—enable network engineering, operations and planning to analyze past trends and forecast future utilization for better capacity planning
