ADC Wins Largest Asia Pacific Contract For Metrica/NPR.Business Editors &High-Tech Writers CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2000 StarHub selects Metrica/NPR for GSM, Wireline, SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy , ATM and Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. systems in $1 million deal ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. (Nasdaq:ADCT ADCT Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform ; www.adc.com) today announced a contract worth $1million to supply Starhub, Singapore's new telephony operator, with its Metrica/NPR network performance management software and support. Metrica/NPR forms part of the overall Network Management - Operation Support System (NM-OSS) bid offered by prime contractor Ericsson. StarHub, whose shareholders include British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. from the United Kingdom and Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (日本電信電話株式会社 (NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform ) is expected to launch a range of fixed and mobile telephony services to the Singapore market on April 1, 2000, in competition with the two established Singapore operators. Metrica/NPR will interface to a range of vendor equipment types including switching, GSM, ATM and frame relay systems supplied by Nokia, Lucent and Ascend. Installation of Metrica/NPR for the GSM system (Phase 1) has been successfully completed and the system will be deployed at StarHub on completion of Phase 2, which will consist of the wireline components of the project - Ascend Frame Relay and Lucent SDH. Metrica/NPR has become firmly established as a leading industry standard solution for network performance management. Metrica/NPR analyses the vast amounts of data from StarHub's diverse fixed and wireless network elements; calculates key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. and summary attributes for network elements, cell sites, services, customers and the network as a whole; and gives operators information on measures such as dropped calls, errored seconds, busy hour trunk usage and service availability. These measures can be analysed over any given time period and summarised in historical, current operations and forecasting reports. Metrica/NPR will give StarHub real-time performance information so that any customer-affecting problems are detected and dealt with as early as possible. Director of Ericsson, Singapore, Ivan Tan said: &uot;Metrica/NPR is an important component in our NM-OSS offering to StarHub. This is one of a number of projects which we are working on with Metrica around the world, and we see Metrica as a vital part of our Network Management Solution offerings in the advanced OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. of the 21st century&uot;. Commenting on the contract David Heaps, vice president of Product Management for ,ADC's Software Systems Division, said: &uot;This deal is significant not only due to the size and regional prominence of the customer, but also as it is our first project working with Ericsson as a prime contractor in Asia Pacific. In addition, it is the largest Metrica/NPR deal in the region to date.&uot; ADC's Metrica technology is deployed in over 150 networks in 55 countries around the world. More information about ADC's Metrica products can be reached on the Web at www.metrica.com, where complete details about its expertise and range of products is available. About Ericsson Ericsson is the leading provider in the new telecoms world, with communications solutions that combine telecom and datacom technologies with freedom of mobility for the user. With more than 100,000 employees in140 countries, Ericsson simplifies communications for its customers -network operators, service providers, enterprises and consumers - the world over. About ADC ADC Telecommunications ADC Telecommunications (NASDAQ: ADCT) is a communications company located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. History In 1935, Ralph Allison founded ADC Telecommunications in the basement of his south Minneapolis home, inventing ADC's very , Inc. is a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks that deliver data, video and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless and enterprise networks. ADC's broadband, multiservice network solutions enable local access, high-speed transmission and software management of communications services from service providers to consumers and businesses over fiber-optic, copper, coaxial and wireless media. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ADC has approximately 13,500 employees around the world and annual sales of $1.9 billion. ADC's stock is included in the Standard and Poor's Noun 1. Standard and Poor's - a broadly based stock market index Standard and Poor's Index 500 Index. For additional information, visit our Web site at www.adc.com. |
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