Alcatel-Lucent 9900 - Manual (Page 5)

5 Optimize Wireless Networks for Data
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Wireless Data Traffic by Bandwidth
(24-hour period)
Wireless Data Traffic by Airtime
(24-hour period)
APP #2 Devices WAP HTTP Other P2P
By deploying the Alcatel-Lucent
9900 WNG in your network you can
enhance end-to-end business oper-
ations, from network performance to
marketing.
Improve Network Performance
All applications that run on IP net-
works are traditionally reduced to a
single dimension — volume (or band-
width). Quite simply, “data is data”.
As wireless networks become more
IP-like — both in terms of technol-
ogy and how subscribers use those
networks — experience suggests we
can design, engineer, optimize, ma-
nage, and price the networks by this
dimension, bandwidth.
This operating principle is funda-
mentally unsound in wireless IP
networks. Two applications that
may consume exactly the same
bandwidth may have widely dispro-
portionate impacts on other critical
resources in the network, such as
airtime (Figure 2).
Every IP application that transmits
over the wireless data network
consumes many different resources in
the network. Service providers need
to still scale applications by band-
width, but must also scale other
resources, such as radio-access
airtime, device-network signaling
and base station channels.
Data is no longer “just data” on
wireless IP networks. And that
means to properly design, engineer,
optimize, manage, price, and
ultimately differentiate NGN
Wireless IP networks, service
providers must have never-before-
required visibility into how packets
and flows impact every constrained
resource in the wireless network —
from the packet core all the way
down into the radio access network.
The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG is
the first product to market in a new
product category, which enables
wireless operators to operationally
connect IP-layer behaviors to
Wireless-layer impacts, and to opti-
mize, manage, and build out their
networks accordingly
In addition, an optional managed
service component can relieve your
network operations personnel of the
burden of monitoring the network
for performance-impacting events.
This helps you defer or postpone
costs associated with training and
developing the subject matter
experts required to leverage the
forensic/root-cause analysis capa-
bility of the Alcatel-Lucent 9900
WNG and propose/implement
mitigation policies.
Figure 2. Bandwidth and Airtime in Wireless IP networks
Enhance End-to-End Business Operations