End-to-end network management using a unified Platform

Now that AmanziTel is part of DingLi, our valued customers asks several question that are actually valid for all of our customers.
- Will AmanziTel only support DingLi products from now on?
- Is the open source version of the Wireless Explorer going to be terminated?
- What will be the new direction that AmanziTel will be taking?
- Is AmanziTel’s approach to end-to-end performance management going to change?

I would like to address those questions on this blog. First off AmanziTel will continue to support other products from drive test tools to probes to network recordings to performance statistics to actual customer experiences. DingLi’s product like any other products that captures and records network performance will be supported as an input to the Wireless Explorer. It actually enables the Wireless Explorer solution to provide a true unified platform to our customers since now we can offer collection and diagnostic tools on top of our solution. This put us in a different league compared to our peers especially in customer experience management with the capability to correlate actual subscriber experience directly from their mobile to the network captured experience to independent probes on various interfaces.

The open source version of the Wireless Explorer shall remain open source (EPL) and will be enhanced further with capabilities and features we can take from our commercial versions and make them open source from time to time. Customer processes, custom analysis and related customer specific requirements will always be specific to a particular customer and will never leak to the open source version, this approach will always be AmanziTel’s basic approach in its deployment. Providing constant update to the open source releases is a way for us to say thank you to our contributors and customers.

The Wireless Explorer started with the concept that is employed in the Windows Explorer, whereas it is able to open and process any data source as long as that data source is readable to the Wireless Explorer no matter what format it is on. The Wireless Explorer will become richer in features in capabilities, specifically incorporating a lot of the cool features in DingLi toolsets that are not available from their competitors in the market. These capabilities are evident in the Unified Platform Solution where it can support and correlate almost any type of data that has the following structure (1)Event (2)Tree/Configuration (3)Statistics (4)Locations. Most data generated in telecom systems are event based, meaning it has a time stamp. Support for any data formats containing of the information mentioned makes the Wireless Explorer very powerful and flexible. It enables support not only for telecom data but for any type of data with the same characteristics.

The man goal is provide our customers with a true end-to-end network management solution that process and correlates data from any source that is vendor independent and technology agnostic.