TTI Telecom and Huawei join hands to fast tracks LTE deployments

NEW DELHI, INDIA: TTI Team Telecom International Ltd, a global supplier of Operations Support Systems ‎‎(OSS) to communications service providers has successfully completed an LTE integration test between Huawei iManager M2000 ‎and TTI Telecom's Service Assurance solution.

As active partners, TTI Telecom and Huawei were able to successfully complete the LTE ‎interoperability activity between Huawei iManager M2000 and TTI Telecom's Netrac ‎Service Assurance Solution in Huawei LTE OSS Joint Lab in Shenzhen, China. This on-‎going joint work follows up on previous successful interoperability tests held in Huawei ‎LTE lab. ‎

In the current activity, the two companies discussed and tested an integrated solution that ‎enables customers to realize fast integration when choosing Huawei LTE network and ‎TTI Telecom's Netrac Service Assurance Solutions. ‎

TTI Telecom Service Assurance and Huawei iManager M2000 interface, based on TTI ‎Telecom's strong bi-directional mediation engine and TTI's performance management ‎solution, applies centralized service assurance capabilities on Huawei M2000 in order to ‎collect and process LTE and GSM/UMTS data. ‎

During the interoperability activity TTI Telecom used its generic toolset to easily define ‎M2000 based adaptors (TTI Libraries) that adhere to the 3GPP standard for LTE ‎networks, collected counters, calculated KPIs and produced service assurance reports ‎based on SAP Business Objects engine.

Tommy Quitt, General Manager Asia, at TTI ‎Telecom, said, "TTI dearly values the cooperation with Huawei, assuring both companies ‎customers' the advantages of this synergetic relationship between the two companies' ‎leading solutions, especially towards the LTE massive deployment in the years to come."

‎"Huawei is committed to the creation of long-term and potential value growth for our ‎customers," said Ocean Sun, wireless OSS product manager of Huawei. "We are happy to ‎partner with TTI Telecom to provide operators with an advanced OSS solution. The joint ‎work of Huawei and TTI Telecom enables customers to improve their network equipment ‎utilization and reduce their operation costs." ‎

The Huawei iManager M2000 is a centralized management platform of Huawei mobile ‎network. It provides an opened northbound interface to NMS as well.

As the world's leading LTE/SAE provider, Huawei has deployed 60 LTE networks ‎including commercial networks, lab trials and field trials in Europe, North America, Asia ‎Pacific and the Middle East. Huawei has made over 3,300 LTE/SAE contributions ‎to 3GPP as of December 2009.