SureWest Communications Integrates Accedian Networks’ MetroNID® Performance Assurance Platform in its Wireless Carrier
Integrated service monitoring and performance management lets SureWest meet the needs of wireless operators with high quality backhaul services.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Accedian Networks, the market-leading developer of Carrier Ethernet Performance Assurance Network Interface Devices (NIDs) and service management solutions, today announced that SureWest Communications (NASDAQ: SURW) is deploying Accedian Network’s Performance Assurance Platform to ensure high quality service delivery for its Wireless Carrier Backhaul Ethernet-based mobile backhaul service.
SureWest conducted an extensive evaluation of performance monitoring solutions before selecting the Accedian MetroNID® for integration into the network. “The Accedian solution provided us the best performance assurance system to meet our customers’ needs,” said Ken Johnson, SureWest’s Vice President and General Manager of Operations. “We chose a solution that enables us to deliver the highest quality mobile backhaul services to our wireless operator customers. But we also selected one that we can seamlessly integrate across our entire Carrier Ethernet service portfolio, and the Accedian Performance Assurance Platform gives us that flexibility.”
The explosive growth of smart phones and mobile broadband devices, coupled with the deployment of next generation mobile broadband applications, is creating a demand for bandwidth that simply cannot be met using the legacy mobile backhaul networks. Existing wireless backhaul networks originally designed for voice have a typical capacity of 1-3 Megabits per cell site and do not accommodate the onslaught of broadband data traffic, where mobile operators are seeing demand for 10-50 Megabits per cell site. SureWest’s fiber- and Ethernet-based networks in both the greater Sacramento and Kansas City regions more than meet this demand.
SureWest’s Wireless Carrier Backhaul is an Ethernet-based service that provides the capacity and performance needed for wireless operators to effectively deliver mobile broadband services. Delivering Ethernet mobile backhaul services can be challenging as the mobile network demands precise service quality. Monitoring latency, packet delay variation, packet loss and availability of mobile backhaul services is critical to successfully meeting the wireless operators’ needs and requires robust performance assurance to ensure that the mobile backhaul network meets these needs around the clock.
Before deploying the MetroNID®s in its network, SureWest compared them against a number of alternatives. The decision criteria included not only performance assurance monitoring and reporting features, but SureWest also compared performance, interface density and power consumption. All aspects for deploying the most efficient service performance infrastructure were evaluated. “Accedian is proud to be working with such a recognized innovator,” said Craig Easley, Accedian’s VP of Marketing. “We were confident that our MetroNID® solution would meet the demanding set of requirements that SureWest’s wireless operator customers demanded and welcome the opportunity to continue adding value to SureWest’s Wireless Carrier Backhaul service.”
About SureWest
SureWest Communications (www.surewest.com) is one of the nation's leading integrated communications providers and is the bandwidth leader in the markets it serves. Headquartered in Northern California for more than 95 years, the company expanded into the Kansas City region in February 2008 with the acquisition of Everest Broadband, Inc. and offers bundled residential and commercial services that include IP-based digital and high-definition television, high-speed Internet, Voice over IP, and local and long distance telephone. SureWest was the nation's first provider to launch residential HDTV over an IP network and offers one of the nation's fastest symmetrical Internet services with speeds of up to 50 Mbps in each direction on its fiber-to-the-home network.
About Accedian Networks
Accedian NetworksTM is a leading provider of Packet Performance AssuranceTM solutions that enable service providers to deliver carrier-grade, packet-based applications and services over wireless and wireline networks.
The company’s solutions include high-performance, hardware-based demarcation units and packet performance nodes, integrated by highly automated network and performance management platforms. In-service monitoring, loopback testing, Ethernet service creation and Operations, Administration & Maintenance (OAM) features allow providers to deliver fully assured wireless backhaul, Ethernet wholesale and business services backed by demanding service level agreements (SLAs).
Accedian Networks is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. For additional information, please visit: www.Accedian.com, or call 1-866-685-8181 or +1 (514) 331-6181.
Accedian will be speaking at the Light Reading Mobile Backhaul Live event in New York City this June 23rd. Event information: Accedian.com/events. A white paper version of this case study is available by visiting www.Accedian.com.
Accedian, EtherNID, MetroNID, MetroNODE 10GE, SLA-meter, Performance Assurance Agent, PAA, Multi-SLA, Ether-PRO, EtherSHELF, Ethernet Service Assurance Platform (ESAP), EVC-Builder, Plug & Go, “Packet Performance Assurance”, “Delivering Service Performance with Assurance”, “Map-out the Health of your Network”, Vision EMS and SLA Radar are trademarks of Accedian Networks, Inc.
CONTACT:
SureWest Media Contact:
Ron Rogers, 916-746-3123
Director of Corporate Communications
SureWest Communications
r.rogers@surewest.com
or
Accedian Media Contact:
Accedian Networks, Inc.
Craig Easley
VP Marketing
marketing@Accedian.com
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