Accedian Networks announced the deployment of its performance monitoring solution across the SK Telecom mobile network — encompassing 12,000 locations across the six largest cities in South Korea.
Accedian’s virtualized solutions collect precise network performance indicators in real time from SK Telecom’s existing network infrastructure, as well as from Accedian’s NFV-based (network function virtualization) performance assurance modules. SK Telecom operates a multi-vendor network, ensuring each supports the RFC-5357 two way active measurement protocol (TWAMP), a vendor-independent, global performance monitoring standard. Accedian’s centralized monitoring solution acts as a uniform instrumentation layer, centralizing a real-time view of network performance throughout the network. Where access equipment lacks TWAMP standards support, SK Telecom installs Accedian’s Nano smart SFP modules to ensure ubiquitous network coverage from end-to-end.
Accedian said SK Telecom plans to extend coverage to all sites serving over 28 million subscribers nationwide. T
“At SK Telecom, best-possible quality of customer service and experience is at the heart of our reputation and our business,” stated Choi, Seung-won, Senior Vice President and Head of Network Solution Office, SK Telecom. “Partnering with Accedian helps us ensure the highest levels of QoS and QoE, which is particularly important as we continue to extend our network towards 5G, and to expand coverage with small cells, making the need for 24×7 end to end network visibility critical. Accedian’s performance monitoring solutions make this possible. SK Telecom selected Accedian’s TWAMP performance assurance solution specifically as the quality indicator and standard for LTE business-to-business networks.”
“SK Telecom is a premier example of a mobile service provider pushing network performance and technology to the limit,” stated Accedian Founder, President, and CEO, Patrick Ostiguy. “They are early adopters and innovators, and their efforts result in the extremely high levels of service and experience quality their customers have come to expect. Accedian is honored to help support their performance assurance objectives through our comprehensive solutions, built with providers like SK Telecom in mind.”
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