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| Actix Launches Actix Insight System Actix has announced the introduction of Actix Insight, a next generation system designed to automatically identify, collate and diagnose common radio access network (RAN) problems. Insight has been designed to improve the efficiency of RAN engineering and troubleshooting by providing advanced performance diagnostics and intelligently prioritizing that information for presentation via a single user interface. For many carriers, RAN engineering currently consists of numerous systems, including mini-tools, spreadsheets and databases, each providing their own task list. Actix Insight was developed to replace and automate many of these processes, and has been shown to provide a six-fold increase in performance engineering productivity. As carriers increasingly turn towards the best practices provided by NSM technologies - which extend the principles of OSS into the radio subsystem, to bring scale and coordination advantages to highly fragmented processes and departments - they require more automated, systematic approaches to integrate and manage existing infrastructures. Actix Insight, built within the new Actix One integration framework, is the central engine designed to form a scalable backbone for future NSM deployments. It enables optimization of the network engineering process and more intelligent and effective management of the workflow through that process to bring large-scale automation to highly fragmented systems in the network performance arena. Actix Insight coordinates data from existing performance, configuration, and fault management systems, allowing carriers to retain and leverage their existing systems investments. Insight applies best practice rules to provide intelligent automated analysis on top of existing systems to quickly identify and diagnose complex network issues. Key features of Actix Insight include: - RAN Data Repository: RAN performance, fault and configuration data is collated and consolidated all into a single RAN Data Repository. - Best Practice Analysis Server: Actix Insight's Analysis automates the identification and diagnosis of common RAN problems within 2G and 3G network technologies. A simple rules editor enables the customization of the behavior of the system to fit a mobile operator's corporate, marketing and regional goals. - Task Based Approach: Identified RAN issues are presented in a simple, task-centric interface that provides engineers with a prioritized list of tasks based on the impact to the network, the business and the customer. - Map Based Investigation: RAN information is presented in a coordinated cell-centric interface that allows fast accesses to all information relating to each network issues from one source. - Management Reports & Audit: Management reports provide an overview of the efficiency and effectiveness of RAN engineering, allow better allocation and control of resources to process bottlenecks and the most critical service-affecting issues. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |