Accedian monitoring system deployed at SK Telecom

Accedian Networks has announced the deployment of its performance monitoring system across South Korean communications service provider (CSP) SK Telecom’s mobile network. The deployment encompasses 12,000 locations across the six largest cities in the country, with plans to extend coverage to all sites serving over 28 million subscribers nationwide.

The deployment is key to SK Telecom’s commitment to optimising performance using standards-based performance monitoring indicators as it migrates towards the intelligent, SDN-controlled networks that will deliver 5G mobile technology.

SK Telecom operates a sophisticated multi-vendor network, ensuring each supports the RFC-5357 two way active measurement protocol (TWAMP), a vendor-independent, global performance monitoring standard. Accedian’s centralised monitoring system acts as a uniform instrumentation layer, centralising a real-time view of network performance throughout the network. Where access equipment lacks TWAMP standards support, SK Telecom installs Accedian’s Nano smart SFP modules to ensure ubiquitous network coverage from end-to-end.

“At SK Telecom, best-possible quality of customer service and experience is at the heart of our reputation and our business,” said Choi Seung-won, the senior vice president and head of the Network Solution Office at SK Telecom. “Partnering with Accedian helps us ensure the highest levels of QoS and QoE, which is particularly important as we continue to extend our network towards 5G, and to expand coverage with small cells, making the need for 24×7 end to end network visibility critical. Accedian’s performance monitoring solutions make this possible. SK Telecom selected Accedian’s TWAMP performance assurance solution specifically as the quality indicator and standard for LTE business-to-business networks.”

Accedian founder, president, and CEO, Patrick Ostiguy, added: “SK Telecom is a premier example of a mobile service provider pushing network performance and technology to the limit. They are early adopters and innovators, and their efforts result in the extremely high levels of service and experience quality their customers have come to expect. Accedian is honoured to help support their performance assurance objectives through our comprehensive solutions, built with providers like SK Telecom in mind.”

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