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News Release from: NetTest
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2002
Monitoring system expanded further
NetTest has announced that Vodafone Ireland has ordered a significant expansion of its GPRS monitoring system, MasterQuest only nine months after Vodafone's initial order for the system.
NetTest, a leading worldwide provider of testing, monitoring, management and optical component solutions for advanced and converged networks, today announced that Vodafone Ireland has ordered a significant expansion of its GPRS monitoring system, MasterQuest This expansion order has been placed only nine months after Vodafone's initial order for MasterQuest
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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NetTest also announced that Vodafone has agreed to support the development of a GPRS Key Performance Indicator (KPI) application by allowing their network to be used as the Beta test site.
Michael Rasmussen, vice president, general manager, network management systems, NetTest, says: "Vodafone's agreement to support our development of a GPRS KPI application will allow us to accelerate development and ensure Vodafone's requirements are built into the product from day one." Vodafone, Ireland's leading mobile phone operator with a customer base of over 1.7 million people, selected MasterQuest in 2001 to monitor its core network for voice and text services.
It is now expanding the coverage to include mobile data services and the interface to the Radio Network to achieve full coverage of A-Interface and the following GPRS interfaces: Gb, Gi and Gn.
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"Despite a large share of the wireless market in Ireland, we have to excel in all areas to stay ahead of the competition.
To ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction, we need to provide high quality voice, text and mobile data services in a cost effective manner and MasterQuest has already proven its value several times over", said John Kavanagh Director of Technology Operations, Vodafone Ireland.
"By making a further investment in the MasterQuest system, we are demonstrating our commitment to providing high quality services to our customers.
As the usage of GPRS services increases, MasterQuest will help us to be the leading network for new mobile data services." "Receiving this expansion order so soon after installing the original system is very satisfying for all NetTest employees who have worked on this project.
It shows that our customers have confidence in our ability to support them as networks become more complex," said Mr Rasmussen.
"This order strengthens our position as a supplier of monitoring systems to the Vodafone Group and confirms we were correct to focus on developing the world's leading system for simultaneous monitoring of GSM and GPRS services.".
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