Network Planning & Design

NetCracker’s Network Planning & Design provides a comprehensive set of capabilities to plan, design, and develop changes and upgrades for various network technologies including: next-generation optical, HFC, xPON, xDSL, IP, MPLS, VLAN, VPLS, mobile (GSM, UMTS, CDMA, LTE, WiMAX), Wi-Fi, Metro E, microwave, and satellite. Network Planning & Design enables a full set of structured activities for effective network extension, including statistical analysis and capacity demand forecasting; trend-based network planning; collaborative design creation; and consecutive network build-out.

Network Planning & Design includes the following modules:

1. Network Trending & Forecasting: provides analysis and reporting capabilities for monitoring network statistics and forecasting demand
2. Network Planning: enables overall network extension management from demand to roll-out and facilitates selection and approval of the most suitable plan
3. Network Design: facilitates collaboration among network planners, designers, and engineers by providing them with tools such as Design and approval workflows; Version management (including comparison and mergers); Advanced GUI design capabilities with version highlighting
4. Network Build-Out: streamlines step-by-step network extension and enables effective third-party management

Key benefits include:

• Coordinated trending, planning, design, and build-out activities through one system to minimize capital expenses and optimize network usage while ensuring continuity of service delivery
• Ability to analyze trends in network usage to remedy potential capacity shortages in a timely manner that prevents SLA violations
• Ability to select the most appropriate network extension plan through extensive rule-based comparison capabilities
• Ability to design alternative implementations of networks, supporting new services through unified, comprehensive network models
• Ability to manage third-party relationships for coordinated network extension through pre-integration with NetCracker’s Workforce Management