Harmonic has developed NGN planning tools to help Telecommunications operators understand the complex challenges of NGN migration and ongoing management. We offer an end-to-end planning solution. Accurate and timely information paints a clear picture of your network service and guides future planning.
The NGN Planning & Management tool
Developed by Harmonic for Telecom NZ, The NGN Toolset enables IP network planners to maximise infrastructure efficiency, optimise capital expenditure and deliver a resilient service under various failure scenarios.
Benefits:
Enable planners to make robust decisions concerning NGN architecture and deployment
Enable planners/managers to understand the current state of the network and plan for future growth scenarios
Insight to resilience under failure
Provide easy to use service aware network planning analysis, measurement and simulation functions
Optimise and validate network designs for service quality, resilience, capacity and cost
Tailored to meet the needs of network planning and traffic engineering for advanced NGNs
Features:
Integrating together powerful functionality for network measurement, analysis and simulation
Highly useable and flexible with Visio and Excel-like GUI
Powerful 'plug in' tools and scenario analysis
Facilitates regional service delivery networks and core network management
Manage multiple network domains effectively
Regional service delivery networks e.g. Alcatel-Lucent 5620, TPSDA architectures, strong Juniper alignment
Traffic profiling and queuing analysis
Our Expertise
Harmonic has developed this solution for Telecom NZ with New Zealand’s leading engineering universities. The NGN-R toolset is the result of a comprehensive research and development programme that was co-funded by The Ministry for Science and Innovation (formally the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology).
As well as the NGN-R toolset, Harmonic provides technical and commercial expertise. Our engineers continue to work closely with the leading NZ researchers in this field.
An outline of our research partners includes:
The University of Auckland - fibre and mobile network optimisation
University of Waikato – network measurement
Massey University– capacity planning and traffic engineering
University of Canterbury - DSL, network protocols and simulation
