CENX, Ixia, Mitel, and VMware Champion Mobile Service Assurance for Virtual Evolved Packet Core

CENX, Ixia, Mitel, and VMware Champion Mobile Service Assurance for Virtual Evolved Packet Core

OTTAWA, Canada, February 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    CENX [http://cenx.com ], the global leader of orchestrated service management and
assurance solutions for physical and virtualized networks, today announced it has
successfully interoperated with Ixia, Mitel, and VMware to demonstrate comprehensive
real-time assurance of mobile data services for virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC). Using
CENX's Exanova Service Intelligence
[http://cenx.com/products/exanova-service-intelligence-for-sdn-nfv ], mobile service
providers can rapidly realize high quality of experience (QoE) for VoLTE, VoWiFi, and data
enterprise and consumer subscribers, over large-scale, hybrid networks including vEPC. The
demonstration will be shown at Mobile World Congress 2016.  

    Market demand for reliable Internet of Things (IoT), dynamically scalable connectivity,
and cloud services is driving service providers to expand differentiated service
offerings, and leverage the agility, elasticity and cost-efficiency of NFV infrastructure
(NFVI). Real-time, continuous monitoring and analytics of millions of network events is
crucial to provide operations with actionable, automated intelligence to deliver high
enterprise and consumer service QoE across multi-vendor, hybrid networks.

    The CENX, Ixia, Mitel, and VMware demonstration showcases optimized real-time service
assurance, within the context of Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO):

       
        - CENX's Exanova Service Intelligence
          [http://cenx.com/products/exanova-service-intelligence-for-sdn-nfv ] provides
          end-to-end visualization, performance monitoring, and analysis of the real-time state
          of services across all segments of the multi-vendor network path, pinpointing fault
          root cause and impact on subscriber QoE;
        - Ixia's IxLoad[TM] Wireless [http://www.ixiacom.com/products/ixload-wireless ]
          delivers full-featured application testing of wireless networks and components,
          emulating real-world subscriber traffic from LTE and WiFi Offload base stations to
          mobile core at scale, for fast-tracking new network services with proven quality;
        - Mitel's vEPC virtual functions provide the feature-rich, high-performance evolved
          Packet Data Gateway [http://mitel.ca/products/mobile/evolved-packet-data-gateway ]
          (ePDG) and Packet Gateway [http://mitel.ca/products/mobile/packet-gateway-pgw ] (PGW)
          platforms for secure connections over untrusted non-3GPP WiFi or 3GPP-compliant LTE
          access networks;
        - VMware vCloud(R) NFV [http://www.vmware.com/industry/telco/overview.html ](TM)
          enables CSPs to deploy a unified, multi-vendor and multi-function NFV platform that
          supports any application at all stages of cloud evolution. The vCloud NFV platform
          includes production-proven NFVI Solutions, openness in cloud management through
          VMware Integrated OpenStack [http://www.vmware.com/products/openstack ] and Service
          Assurance with Day 2 and Ongoing Operations.

    "Mobile and NFV technologies continue to innovate at a tremendous pace, and we're
excited to be collaborating with industry leaders, Ixia, Mitel, and VMware, to bring
comprehensive solutions to market," said Jay McMullan, Senior Vice President of Sales and
Marketing, CENX. "With Exanova Service Intelligence's real-time visualization and detailed
KPI analytics, operators can quickly navigate their network, isolate faults, and trigger
automated workflows for proactive service assurance. This ensures high subscriber
satisfaction, driving top line revenues, and also makes the most of infrastructure
investment, netting bottom line gains."

    "Ixia is excited to be working with CENX, Mitel, and VMware to enable virtual Evolved
Packet Core verification and validation," said Ixia's Scott Westlake, Vice President of
Business Development. "As carriers accelerate their transition to NFV, it's critical that
Lifecycle Service Orchestration solutions provide scalable and realistic performance,
resilience and security testing to deliver high quality services."

    "Mitel has been an early adopter of NFV and understands well both the tremendous
flexibility and the potential complexity of fully virtualized network solutions," said
Terry McCabe, CTO of Mitel's Mobile Division. "Working with CENX, Ixia, and VMware gives
us a sophisticated set of management and analytics capabilities to operate our 4G LTE
network solutions with an intelligence that matches the subscriber services that we
enable."

    "Working with our broad ecosystem of NFV partners, VMware is driving the next
evolution in business transformation for global service providers," said David Wright,
vice president of operations, Telco NFV Group, VMware. "Through this type of collaboration
with CENX, Ixia, and Mitel, we will collectively give service providers the confidence to
quickly move from proof of concept to production NFV to accelerate time-to-market and
overall service assurance for new and differentiated offerings."

    To see this demonstration of real-time service QoE assurance at Mobile World Congress
at CENX booth 2F50, or at the VMware NFV Pavilion 3K10, book your meeting today
[http://info.cenx.com/mwc2016-0 ].

    About CENX 

    CENX transforms network big data into real-time actionable intelligence. We accelerate
end-to-end operations by harnessing dynamic analytics and web-scale computing to visualize,
manage and assure data services across multi-vendor, SDN and NFV networks. Our software
solutions are deployed by the largest, most innovative service providers worldwide.
http://www.cenx.com

    About Ixia 

    Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) provides testing, visibility and security solutions, strengthening
applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises, service providers and
network equipment manufacturers. Ixia offers companies trusted environments in which to
develop, deploy and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia to verify their designs,
optimize their performance and ensure protection of their networks to make their
applications stronger. Learn more at http://www.ixiacom.com.

    About Mitel 

    A global market leader in enterprise and mobile communications powering more than 2
billion business connections and 2 billion mobile subscribers every day, Mitel
(Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW) helps businesses and mobile carriers connect, collaborate and
provide innovative services to their customers. Our innovation and communications experts
serve more than 60 million business users in more than 100 countries, and 130 mobile
service providers including 15 of the top 20 mobile carriers in the world. That makes us
unique, and the only company able to provide a bridge between enterprise and mobile
customers. For more information, go to http://www.mitel.com and follow us on Twitter
@Mitel.

    VMware, vCloud, and vCloud NFV are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc.
or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other marks and
names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the
word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between
VMware and any other company. 

       
         
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