South African Network Orders Network Software

South Africa's GSM network operator, Cell C has chosen Aircom's performance management tool, OPTIMA, to ensure that they achieve the optimum performance from their predominantly GSM1800 dual band network infrastructure. OPTIMA has been customised for Cell C and is fully integrated into the Siemens BSS BR6.0 environment.

OPTIMA has been rolled out across the country and is providing various departments the near real-time performance data they require in order to monitor and optimise their network. All network performance counters from Cell C's Siemens infrastructure are fully integrated into the solution.

'We selected OPTIMA from Aircom because they were able to deliver the best technical functionality with added gains from user-friendly integration and customisation". Said Fred Coetzer, Cell C's Chief Operations Officer.

The Optima solution will allow Cell C to enhance their potential and compliment their existing performance measures and indicator capabilities. Optima will also minimize the mean time to detect lowered performance levels in the network, enabling Cell C to uphold their commitment to maintaining an efficient and effective mobile network in order to continue providing world-class service to their customers.

"We are delighted to be delivering valued added engineering benefits to Cell C and we will ensure that Cell C continue to get the most out of the solution. Having near real-time PM data at your fingertips enables you to react quickly to optimisation requirements. We have already designed and implemented different tailored analysis reports making full use of invaluable PM data" commented Graham Kemp Managing Director of Aircom's South Africa division in Johannesburg."

Posted to the site on 4th December 2003