Mobile Resource Management

Prevent a growing mobile network from becoming a CAPEX/OPEX drain

Mobile resource management is creating escalating operational challenges and costs. Providers are finding that continued mobile market expansion, along with the emergence of even more competition, has made their present method of operation too costly. What operators need is a systematic migration to automated, integrated network provisioning and management systems that bridge the gap between new and legacy assets. This will enable them to:

• Make informed upgrade decisions and put the brakes on impulsive purchases or leases
• Reduce the burdens and costs of manual processes
• Optimize their operational environment with automated, flowthrough planning, design, engineering, provisioning, activation, and capacity monitoring
• Sustain sound management practices as mobile networks evolve
• Transform their environments at their own pace while still leveraging legacy assets.

Our mobile resource management method of operation targets the single biggest driver of capital and operational expenses - the backhaul portion of the network - with the following foundational elements:

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that serves as a cohesive operational platform
• Third-party visibility into provisioning and activation systems
• Workflow engines that eliminate excessive time, costs, and errors via automation
• Versioning capabilities, which allow operators to store parameters that address different configurations so networks can quickly adapt to changing conditions.

These elements are reflected in our solution's components:

• Telcordia® Network Engineer for physical network inventory management
• Telcordia® Granite Inventory for resource management and provisioning
• Telcordia® Expediter for service order orchestration and interfacing to other OSS/BSS including billing
• for capacity monitoring
• Telcordia® COMMON LANGUAGE® for facilitating system-to-system communication and providing a nomenclature compatible with other existing systems

To make implementation even more efficient, we have developed the OSS "Express Pack" approach -- pre-populated service- and network-specific templates and models. Similar to online "wizards," providers can use our Express Pack approach to leverage our extensive implementation experience in the design, provisioning, and activation of wireless circuits, modeling of wireless networks, and capacity monitoring. Any mix of technologies is possible.