Nokia Siemens Networks and EMC to Improve IP Network Management

Nokia Siemens Networks and EMC Corp. have inked a cooperation deal covering IP network management. Core to the deal, the companies are working together on a joint solution to significantly improve the ability of service providers to shorten network down-time and reduce operational costs by improving the management of their IP networks.

Service providers worldwide face the difficult challenge of how to cope with rapidly increasing network traffic without a corresponding increase in revenue. Many aim to differentiate themselves by using IP and multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks to offer new services while lowering costs. However, these networks present their own challenges, such as how to achieve network visibility across all technology domains while ensuring real-time service assurance.

The co-developed solution will provide an answer to these challenges by offering end-to-end visibility and fault management for both MPLS VPN and IP routing protocol configurations in multi-technology and multi-vendor environments. The solution is based on the mobile network management of Nokia Siemens Networks' NetAct, which will be enhanced with IP domain visibility provided by the EMC Smarts automated IT management solution.

"IP networks are increasingly important as key drivers of network convergence. The variety of access technologies and devices used in the future will put increasing demands on the end-to-end network performance, and on IP service assurance operational costs," said Juhani Hintikka, Head of Operations and Business Software Business Unit, Nokia Siemens Networks. "Our strategic objective is to support the continuing trend towards IP networks. Our work with EMC will increase the overall visibility and control the service providers have over their networks. The win for service providers can be significant in terms of cost reduction and network quality – and for the customer it delivers an improved individual communications experience."

In addition to joint solution development, Nokia Siemens Networks will continue to resell, and provide system integration capabilities for EMC's line of automated IT management solutions – including EMC Smarts, EMC Application Discovery Manager, EMC VoyenceControl and EMC Infra.

Posted to the site on 6th May 2009