Winner of Frost & Sullivan 2018 Customer
Value Leadership Award for Global Data Analytics Solutions for
Communications Service Providers
QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 15, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - EXFO Inc.
(NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) continues to earn industry
recognition for leadership in service assurance with its portfolio
of 5G-ready solutions for physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
The latest award—the Frost & Sullivan 2018 Customer Value
Leadership Award for Global Data Analytics Solutions for
Communications Service Providers—is the company's fifth in the
last seven months.
The awards, which include Digital Transformation World's
Outstanding Catalyst Innovation Award and Network Virtualization
Europe's Best Service Assurance Solution Award, reflect EXFO's
commitment to supporting customers in the face of tremendous
disruption from new technologies such as 5G, network functions
virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligence. The company's
solutions use automation to help customers safe-guard the
operations of their networks by uncovering and flagging the causes
of severe service disruptions that impact multiple customers
dramatically speeding up the detection, diagnosis and
troubleshooting of problems that affect subscribers.
"EXFO is unique in the data analytics solutions market for
service providers for its solution based on automation, data
science, co-development with customers," said Kiran Unni, Vice President, Industrial at Frost
& Sullivan. "This latest award recognizes the company's ability
to optimize subscriber experience and maximize benefits for service
provider teams at every level of these organizations, from
engineering to customer care."
EXFO solutions are developed in collaboration with customers to
match end-user requirements and environments and deliver relevant,
tangible benefits. Three UK is a prime example. The British
telecommunications and internet service provider recently partnered
with EXFO to create a fully virtualized, network integrated
platform to monitor traffic and trigger alarms when issues are
identified.
"We wanted to select the right partner and the right solution.
We decided to go with EXFO's probe-based big data analytics
solution as we feel EXFO has the right mindset and approach to
NFV," said Prasath Jagathrakshakalu, OSS Technical Design
Authority at Three UK. "In order to deliver better customer
experience, we need to understand the end-to-end view of the
services we offer to our customers, the quality of the voice call,
the speeds they are getting and the bottlenecks that create
congestion in our networks. EXFO's virtual probe-based solution
gives us that view as it is flexible, scalable and embedded in
virtual infrastructure."
"With hundreds of use cases under its belt, EXFO's team has
demonstrated a superior capability to support customers across the
entire service provider lifecycle," said Abdelkrim Benamar, EXFO's Vice-President of
Service Assurance, Systems and Services. "Our service assurance
solutions deliver a unique combination of strengths in fiber
testing and monitoring with active testing, dynamic topology
inventory, passive monitoring, and analytics. We're especially
proud of this award because it underlines our commitment to
providing superior value to our customers and allocating resources
to help them reap the maximum benefits from the solutions they
choose to deploy."
About EXFO
EXFO (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) develops smarter test,
monitoring and analytics solutions for fixed and mobile network
operators, webscale companies and equipment manufacturers in the
global communications industry. Our customers count on us to
deliver superior network performance, service reliability and
subscriber insights. They count on our unique blend of equipment,
software and services to accelerate digital transformations related
to fiber, 4G/LTE and 5G deployments. They count on our expertise
with automation, real-time troubleshooting and big data analytics,
which are critical to their business performance. We've spent over
30 years earning this trust, and today 1,900 EXFO employees in
over 25 countries work side by side with our customers in the lab,
field, data center and beyond.
Video link: Three UK teams up with EXFO to become the 1st
mobile operator to run a full NFV network in Europe
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