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TELEKOMRisTI Selects VPIsystems' OnePlan for VoIP Network Analysis and MigrationHOLMDEL, N.J., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Though an emerging market, Indonesia has one of the highest broadband growth rates in the world, at more than 200 percent annually.(1) To accommodate the rapid and substantial service and subscriber growth, carriers like incumbent PT Telekom are migrating their legacy TDM networks to next generation IP/MPLS networks that offer the promise of dramatically increased bandwidth and high quality of experience (QoE) for customers. The migration of those services to the new networks is a daunting challenge, however, since by their nature, IP networks are liable to drop or delay packets during overload conditions, introducing jitter and delay in services like VoIP, video and gaming. The last thing a carrier needs as it migrates its customers to a new network is for those customers to experience service problems during that migration. To avoid service introduction problems that can lead to unhappy and lost customers, forward-thinking carriers like PT Telekom are conducting thorough network analyses prior to and during service migrations, to discover where network weaknesses lie and plan ahead for fluctuations in traffic demands before customers experience the results. TELEKOMRisTI, PT Telekom's research and development (R&D) lab, is using VPIsystems' network resource planning system, OnePlan(TM), to plan the migration of its VoIP service to its new network. With this deployment, TELEKOMRisTI joins Telstra, TOT and other service providers as VPIsystems' fifteenth customer in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) market. TELEKOMRisTI is using the OnePlan IP/MPLS and Switch(TM) modules to plan the migration of PT Telekom's voice traffic to an IP network and ensure its QoE through multi-level failure analysis. OnePlan gives TELEKOMRisTI the insight and applications it needs to manage a hybrid fixed line, wireless and microwave network that is spread out over Indonesia's many islands, and ensure the quality of the services running on that network. OnePlan IP/MPLS is helping the lab enable the network to tier priority and "best effort" services and ensure superior QoE. The OnePlan Switch module, which designs, optimizes, validates and analyzes voice networks, is being used to plan and design network enhancements for current and anticipated voice traffic patterns on the new IP/MPLS network. "Announcing our fifteenth APAC customer is a significant milestone, as it demonstrates the growing importance of Network Resource Planning in markets (both emerging and established) where carriers' networks are rapidly changing through expansion or migration," said Hank Firey, president and CEO of VPIsystems. "When dealing with real time video traffic on an IP network, a milliseconds delay results in frustrated customers. In hypercompetitive markets, frustrated customers can become former customers, making planning precautions like failure analysis mission-critical for carriers like PT Telekom." About OnePlan OnePlan offers communications service providers a single, cross-domain (geography, technology, discipline and network domain) integrated capacity and network planning capability, OnePlan has become the system of choice for any carrier planning transition to a next-generation, IP-enabled network. Through its modular design, OnePlan provides a scalable solution that can start as a single technology module, and grow to a high-availability system spanning multiple network layers where OnePlan automates all network planning, engineering and decommissioning activities. About VPIsystems, Inc. VPIsystems is the only provider of integrated capacity and network planning software and services for the global telecommunications industry. The company's OnePlan(TM) software system gives telecommunications and multi- service providers the ability to cohesively plan the financial, technical and marketing aspects of their network evolution, for all current and future network types. Headquartered in Holmdel, NJ, and with offices in Europe, Asia, and Australia, VPIsystems' software is used by over 150 communications service providers and network equipment manufacturers to assess current and future capacity needs, and optimally plan their QoS-constrained service networks and underlying transport infrastructure. For further information, visit us at http://www.vpisystems.com/. (1) Point Topic, "World Broadband Statistics: Q2 2007," [October 2007] Contact: Barbara Pistilli VPIsystems, Inc. [email protected] +1.732.332.0233 x120 Gerald Kimber White RF|Binder Partners [email protected] +1.781.455.8250 VPIsystems, Inc. CONTACT: Barbara Pistilli of VPIsystems, Inc., +1-732-332-0233 x120,[email protected]; or Gerald Kimber White of RF|Binder Partners,+1-781-455-8250, [email protected], for VPIsystems, Inc. Web site: http://www.vpisystems.com/ |