InfoVista Announces Qualification for Huawei Router

First Vendor to Qualify Huawei NE80E Router for Leading Brazilian Service Provider

InfoVista (Euronext IFV – FR0004031649) , the leader in delivering proven solutions for proactive service assurance, announced qualification of the Quidway NE80E, a router from Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world. The qualifying of this device gives InfoVista a significant competitive differentiator and market advantage.

ISPM, an InfoVista channel partner, came to InfoVista with a request from Oi, the largest South American service provider, for qualification of the NE80E device from Huawei. InfoVista provided the collection and analysis of packet delay, jitter loss parameters, Central Processing Unit (CPU) and memory efficiency – qualifications essential for Huawei to provide carrier class Service Level Agreements (SLA) to its customers.

InfoVista and Huawei established a scoped, experienced team to complete the testing before the set deadline in January. In just two weeks, the team quickly worked together to qualify the device on the InfoVista platform. The qualification has proven that the Huawei NE80E device can fully satisfy its customer requirements with the jitter, latency and packet loss criterion, and establishes InfoVista as the first and only performance management vendor to qualify this device.

“NE80E plays a critical role, acting as the SLA monitoring agent in Oi’s NGN network, a complex, global network that spans China, Brazil, France, Mexico and the U.S. It was vital for Oi, our customer and Huawei to fully qualify this device,” said Peter He, director for broadband & IP network management, Huawei. “It’s our honor that our partner InfoVista, the leading service assurance vendor in the industry, gives us timely and effective support to qualify our solution based on strict criterion.”

“Our ability to qualify the NE80E for the customer’s specific needs and standard requirements demonstrates InfoVista’s superior technology and depth of knowledge in the service assurance market,” said Manuel Stopnicki, CTO, InfoVista. “This successful qualification is also a testament to our ability to work seamlessly with our hardware partners to help them qualify their key devices for production, while simultaneously positioning us as the first performance management vendor to do so.”

About Huawei Technologies

Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 31 of the world’s top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers. For more information, visit www.huawei.com.

About InfoVista

InfoVista empowers telecom operators, services providers and large enterprises to maximize business return and productivity by assuring the optimal performance of mission-critical networked services, applications and infrastructures. Eighty percent of the world’s largest service providers and more than 30 of the top 100 global corporations rely on InfoVista’s proven solutions for Proactive Service Assurance to foresee potential service issues before they impact end users, improve business effectiveness, reduce operating risk, lower cost of operations, increase agility and create competitive advantage. Sample customers include Bell Canada, Bharti, BNP Paribas, British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, CitiGroup, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, SFR, SingTel, T-Mobile, Telefonica, and Telstra. InfoVista is traded on the Euronext Paris (FR0004031649) and can be found online at www.infovista.com

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Contacts

InfoVista Press:
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Strategic Alliance International
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or
Huawei Press:
Huawei
Bessie He, +86 0755 28789833
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