LONDON -- Creanord Ltd., a premier solutions enabler assisting Carriers and service providers in Ensuring Quality of Experience(TM) and strengthening customer loyalty announced today the availability of Creanord EchoVault Total.

For a long time the Creanord EchoVault strength has been the high precision of network quality and bandwidth utilization information. But while the trend thrives for managing more with fewer professionals the tools needs to evolve to assist both the operations and the business personnel. The automatic exceptions reporting, rich event notifications and advanced analytics are prime examples of the new requirements. The EchoVault Total fulfills the new requirements and further harnesses the power of the EchoVault system with new Analytics (A), Events (E), Dashboards (D) and Statistics (S) Engines, commonly known as an AEDS suite.

Analytics Engine continuously analyses measurement Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and further process the data for event notification and Monthly reporting purposes. The arithmetical calculations like minimum, maximum and percentiles are performed for time periods such as five minutes, one hour, one day and one month.

Furthermore the Analytics Engine introduces a new Key Quality Indicator (KQI) called Service Availability. It is a percent of time when the service measured by Creanord EchoVault has met the predefined quality objectives.

"Many of our customers have asked KQI that is similar but more flexible than Mean Opinion Score (MOS) for voice quality. Availability percent is known by all customers thus Service Availability percent makes sense. I am thrilled about the feedback that we have received throughout the introduction of our Service Availability algorithm that works for any service and for any circuit," explains Antti Pappila, CTO of Creanord.

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Creanord Ltd., a premier solutions enabler assisting Carriers and service providers in Ensuring Quality of Experience(TM) and Strengthening customer loyalty announced the availability of enhanced Traffic-Meter - a first solution for monitoring microburst and microloss events with range of Ethernet Access devices driven by Creanord EchoAgent(TM).

Traditional bandwidth monitoring falls short in Carrier Ethernet because legacy network elements provide traffic counters only for physical interfaces. In Carrier Ethernet different traffic classes share the same physical interfaces and are usually separated to individual VLANs. The Creanord EchoVault's Traffic-Meter enables measuring the traffic based on L2 and L3 criteria of choice making it possible to measure different flows with unique one second resolution - sampling 300 times faster than SNMP-based polling.

"The one second resolution unlocks new opportunities for Ethernet service creation, quality monitoring and problem solving. As an example, it enables subscriber connections with separate rates for Committed Information Rate (CIR) and Extended Information Rate (EIR). The traffic conforming to the CIR rate is included in the monthly flat rate fee and traffic exceeding the CIR rate is billed in based on data volume" explains Jorma Hamalainen, President & CEO of Creanord. The fine-grained view to traffic flows enables investigation of network congestion problems arising from microburst events - impossible to pinpoint with legacy tools.

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