Thursday, June 17, 2010

In pursuit of the future in network operations

Two years ago when we launched AmanziTel we wrote a simple website that communicates the vision of our products, solutions and services. After a year we found that bigger players in the market started to copy the concept and market it. Does that mean that we have accurately predicted the type of solutions required by network operators today or are we simply listening to the customers? Do we truly believe that our ideas were ground breaking and worth copying by others? The truth is we simply listened to our customers and added bits and pieces of our own innovations. And we misled the competition....

Two years on we are about to launch a new website that will communicate our current solutions, products and services. It will show our ideas and what we have achieved… This in itself what it is today and not the future. The future solutions are currently being developed and we will not make the description of the solution publicly marketed until we actually have another hundreds of networks using it. If you are part of the 140 networks using or trying our current solution, everything in the new website is old since we most likely have presented it to you already or you are already using it.

So today we can correlate multiple data sources from the network on a multi-vendor and multi-technology environment and not only that we can correlate business intelligence with actual network operations giving an end-to-end view of the business lifecycle. We can also locate all mobiles in the network to an accuracy of 3 meters, further to that we can enable operators to use all mobiles in the network report their individual performance measurement and subscriber preferences much like any business analytics do today. We also automate the process of optimizing the network and protecting the network from any threats or vulnerabilities.

Having said that what are we going to release in the future? Well like we did in the past 2 years it is something we communicate directly to customers on our presentations and meetings and not something you will be able to read on our website… Is this strategy future proof? Only time will tell……

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Ian: if you are so original why did you guys copy the Actix website concept, from the map background right down to the little tick boxes and even the same colour on your menu bars?

Ian Vernon said...

The google map concept on the website was there in 2008, however the new website that actually runs it was just recently launched. The color scheme we used is based on the AmanziTel colors on the logo, depending on your screen resolution you might not see all the color combinations.

One other thing to point out is that if you look closely to the amanziTel website background you will notice the mobile locations generated in the city where you are accessing the website. The mobile locations gives you a hint on the use of GEOptimA. Other than that the google map location shows your location relative to the closest city and not fixed to a single city.. Try going to different cities or countries to fully appreciate what the map background is doing and check the mobile locations if indeed someone in the location have an active phone :-)