Tektronix Communications Selected by Avea

Tektronix Communications, a leading worldwide provider of communications test and Network Intelligence solutions, announced the selection of its Iris suite of products by Avea, Turkey's fastest growing 1800 GSM provider with near 12 million subscribers as of the first quarter of 2011. The Iris suite of products will provide Avea with greater insight and visibility into how their network and services are performing, ultimately enabling Avea to provide a better end user experience for their clients.

"To handle the rapid growth in data traffic following the launch of their 3G network, Avea required a turnkey solution as then as a partnership that would enable market readiness," said Mark Driedger, vice president, Network Management, Tektronix Communications. "Our Iris suite of products provides Avea a real-time view of end-to-end network and service performance for data services, which facilitates faster resolution of customer-impacting issues."

Tektronix Communications' Iris suite of products will allow Avea to monitor their entire mobile network end-to-end to detect any capacity bottlenecks, characterize the traffic and enable faster resolution of network and service issues previously they impact customer experience. In spite of the challenges brought forth through the surge in mobile data traffic, these products will enable Avea to better understand how their network resources are being utilized through the use of real-time and historical statistics and pre-defined KPIs.

The strength of their Iris suite offering

"We at first selected Tektronix Communications' because of the strength of their Iris suite offering and it's ability to collect and correlate data and turn that data into actionable information to better manage our networks, services and clients more efficiently and profitably," said Avea's Senior Network Director, Mr. Cemal Baki. "Since our decision to purchase, the team at Tektronix Communications has taken a proactive approach to partner with us to quickly and efficiently get the solution up and running across four of our sites in Turkey."

Avea has installed the turnkey solution which includes IrisView, the Iris analyzer toolset and the Iris Performance Intelligence solution in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara to monitor data service traffic across their network. With Tektronix Communications' solution, Avea should be able to leverage their investment to process raw data collected from their network to generate an enhanced CDR that can be used by customer experience management systems and third party OSS/BSS applications now and into the future.

Tektronix Communications provides service providers and equipment manufacturers around the world an in a class by itself suite of network diagnostics and service assurance solutions for fixed, mobile, IP and converged multi-service networks. This comprehensive set of solutions support a range of architectures and applications just as LTE, fixed mobile convergence, IMS, broadband wireless access, WiMAX, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and triple play. Tektronix Communications is headquartered in Plano, Texas. Learn more about the company's test, measurement and service assurance solutions by visiting www.tektronixcommunications.com.

Established in 2004, Avea is the youngest and fastest growing communications operator in Turkey. The company has made research investments to advance its infrastructure and continue providing clients innovative and quality services. The company has roaming agreements with 626 operators in 199 countries, is part of Turk Telekom. 81.37%  stake in Avea TurkTelekomunikasyon A.S., 18.63% shares owned by Bank Group.

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