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Sun and ADC Metrica Integrate Performance-Boosting Technology

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Sun Microsystems, Inc. and ADC Metrica have announced an agreement to integrate ADC Metrica's Metrica/NPR and Sun's Solstice Enterprise Manager software. This integration aims to provide telecommunications operators with the ability to focus on delivering higher quality services to their customers in a user-intensive network.

Key Takeaways:

  • The integration of Metrica/NPR and Solstice Enterprise Manager allows system operators to monitor key quality of service indicators, such as hand-offs and dropped calls, to identify potential service-affecting problems.
  • The combined solution enables the effective deployment of capacity, facilitating "Just-In-Time" deployment of expensive capital equipment.
  • The integrated solution empowers network operators to respond quickly to network dynamics, such as increased subscriber demand, altered configurations, and new equipment.
  • The deployment of Solstice Enterprise Manager as the initial monitor and central point for network management activity minimizes churn by enabling proactive network management.
  • The integration of Metrica/NPR and Solstice Enterprise Manager is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Statistics:

  • Over 100 customer networks worldwide have successfully deployed Metrica/NPR.
  • Revenues for fiscal year 1997 were $1.2 billion for ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
  • Sun Microsystems, Inc. generated over $9.5 billion in annual revenues.
  • The agreement between Sun and ADC Metrica provides for the joint marketing of the combined solution for telecommunications, data communications, and other markets.

Sources:

  • M2 Presswire, 13 October 1998, "ADC Metrica: Sun Solstice Enterprise Manager software to integrate performance-boosting technology from ADC Metrica"
  • Sun Microsystems, Inc. press release, "Sun and ADC Metrica Integrate Performance-Boosting Technology"
  • ADC Telecommunications, Inc. press release, "ADC Telecommunications Reports 1997 Diversified Sales Growth and Profit Increase"

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