Actix Announces New Solution for Optimizing HSPA+ Networks |
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Actix Ltd
200, Hammersmith Road
London, W6 7DL
United Kingdom
Press release date: October 13, 2010
Multi-source, network-wide data analytics enable breakthrough ability to optimize the performance and capacity of mobile data networks
London - Actix, a leader in Mobile Network Analytics, has released a new HSPA+ Optimization solution to aid operators in optimizing the performance and capacity of new HSPA+ network upgrades. The new solution is available on the most recent release of Actix's optimization platform, ActixOne.
With more than 70 HSPA+ networks already launched (source: 3G Americas), operators are increasingly looking to HSPA+ as a cost effective way to improve both the performance and capacity of data services. Working with operators that have deployed HSPA+, Actix has determined that the RF environment is the most common cause of major performance and capacity issues post-launch. In particular, RF problems related to coverage, interference and neighbors are the most common underlying causes of data service issues such as degraded capacity, low throughput and dropped connections.
However, operators have struggled to clean up RF problems that impact data services due to challenges in accessing the data required to understand and fix the problems. Unlike voice networks, where the detection of quality issues such as dropped calls and failed initiations is relatively straightforward, data networks deliver a variety of services, each requiring measurement of multiple quality metrics such as connection failures, throughput and latency. Furthermore, quality metrics and RF data are typically stored across multiple data silos, including network performance statistics, subscriber trace databases and drive survey logs. These data silos can accumulate at a rate of terabytes/day in large networks, further complicating the issue.
ActixOne provides a highly-scalable optimization platform which can access all required data sets, enabling operators to visualize, analyze and optimize the mobile data network. ActixOne allows the operator to use network performance statistics such as channel quality statistics, which are based on measurements reported by the subscriber's device, to quickly determine which areas in the network may have degraded data services. Once a problem area has been identified, the operator can then seamlessly drill into the area using near real-time Subscriber Traces or Drive Tests to diagnose RF causes of problems and determine solutions to the problems.
The optimization solution is backwards compatible with HSPA networks and is therefore completely relevant to deployment of new HSPA sites and carriers, another key weapon in operators' data capacity enhancement arsenal.
"We're excited to be delivering analytics to our customers that address critical challenges related to surging Mobile Internet traffic", said Jeff Atkins, Vice President of Product Management at Actix. "There's no silver bullet when it comes to optimizing HSPA+ networks, and a key value proposition of our platform is the ability to use an ever increasing number of data sources to streamline and automate optimization processes. We've already deployed our optimization platform to multiple operators launching HSPA+ and it's now being used by hundreds of engineers to optimize the performance and capacity of HSPA+ deployments."
For further information about Actix and ActixOne please visit: www.actix.com
About Actix
Actix provides Mobile Network Analytics software to visualize, analyze and optimize the Mobile Network. Actix is a leader in Mobile Network Analytics with over 230 operator customers across 106 countries. With the rise of the Mobile Internet, the Mobile Network has become a critical performance and capacity bottleneck for operators. Actix software solutions provide analysis of network-wide, multi-vendor and multi-source Mobile Network data to enable our customers to address critical business challenges brought about by the Mobile Internet. These challenges include rolling out new technology such as HSPA+ and LTE, troubleshooting increasingly complex networks and automating network optimization processes. For more information, please see www.actix.com.
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