Agilent Technologies Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive UMTS Assurance Solution to Accelerate Network Roll-Out, Service Launch.LONDON -- Agilent UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. Performance Analyzer Helps Service Providers Measure and Improve Network Stability, Service Quality and Availability Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today announced the telecommunication industry's most comprehensive service assurance solution that monitors and manages UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) cell phone technologies. Currently, the most common form uses W-CDMA as the underlying air interface, is standardized by the 3GPP, and is the European answer to the ITU ) networks and new voice, video and data services. This integrated solution offers valuable end-to-end insight into network operation and service performance, and enables wireless carriers to aggregate data from key UMTS interfaces, perform real-time analysis and understand unusual events and trends. Several tier-one carriers in Europe, Asia and America are testing this solution to speed their new services to market and identify and resolve performance issues before subscribers are affected. Furthering its 3G UMTS initiative to combine standalone products into comprehensive end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. , Agilent has integrated its Distributed Network Analyzer A specialized hardware device or software in a desktop or laptop computer that captures packets transmitted in a network for routine inspection and problem detection. Also called a "sniffer," "packet sniffer," "packet analyzer," "traffic analyzer" and "protocol analyzer," the network , Data Mining Toolkit and Signaling Analyzer solutions. The resulting service assurance solution, Agilent UMTS Performance Analyzer, enables wireless service providers to leverage the wealth of data collected non-intrusively from key UMTS interfaces to better manage the performance of the network and services. To maximize investment and minimize operational expenditure, the solution's data collection and aggregation platform can be leveraged into other areas such as radio frequency (RF) quality of service management, providing a common platform for UMTS network and service assurance. Flexible reporting allows a wide range of analysis on the collected subscriber data, enabling users to more easily identify and troubleshoot issues across the UMTS network and understand the performance of voice and data services. UMTS Performance Analyzer provides insight into the quality and performance of the Radio Access Network, either in a large area, such as an entire city, or down to a cell or user granularity. It monitors and troubleshoots inter-RNC (radio network controller) handovers and reports on the performance of the network and UMTS and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. services. "Agilent's flexible data collection, analysis, reporting and troubleshooting solution augments our existing UMTS solution portfolio," said Tom White, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Communications Solutions Group. "Our initiative is to provide the industry's broadest range of integrated, end-to-end 3G service assurance solutions that help wireless service providers solve critical operational and business challenges." Agilent UMTS solutions provide visibility of network and service problems across the entire service life cycle -- from network planning, rollout and optimization to ongoing service troubleshooting and performance management. Agilent in Communications Agilent Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of components, test, measurement, monitoring and management solutions for the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . Agilent enables designers, manufacturers and service providers to accelerate the delivery of next-generation devices, networks and services. 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