Bangladesh Operator Orders Network Monitoring Platform

Bangladesh's Grameenphone has ordered a Network Assurance monitoring solution from Tektronix Communications. GeoProbe provides Grameenphone proactive GSM, GPRS and SIGTRAN monitoring, enabling the operator to detect bottlenecks, abnormal situations and performance degradation in real time. In addition, Tektronix is providing its K18 Network and Service Analyzer (NSA) and Optimization Expert Module, giving Grameenphone enhanced protocol analysis and reporting capabilities.

"Ensuring a quality network along with providing coverage around the country has always been Grameenphone's priority focus," said Shafiqul Islam, Chief Technical Officer, Grameenphone. "We want to lead the Bangladeshi market by offering a wide range of high quality, differentiating mobile services. While Grameenphone is well-positioned with its international standard expertise and processes to ensure premium network quality for its valued subscribers, the network-wide monitoring through Tektronix solutions will provide essential visibility to the real-time performance of our networks as experienced by our subscribers."

"In today's highly competitive mobile market, ensuring a high quality of service is essential to growing and maintaining an operator's subscriber base," said Doug Dickerson, Vice President, Products, Tektronix Communications. "A monitoring solution must be expandable so that operators can easily and affordably bring new services to market. We are excited about the innovation that Grameenphone is bringing to the mobile services market and look forward to helping them proactively manage the network, services on the network and the customers who use them."

Posted to the site on 3rd March 2008