Finland's Finnet Selects Micromuse's Netcool Suite; Netcool Applications Enable Leading Telco Operator to Increase Service Uptime and Reduce Operational Support Costs.Business/Technology Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2002 Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE), the leading provider of service and business assurance software, today announced that Finnet, a Finnish national telecommunications operator-group, has deployed the Netcool(R) solution as the core service assurance platform across its voice, data and transmission network and systems. Kaukoverkko Ysi (KV9) represents Finnet as the contracting party. KV9 designs, operates, and markets fixed long-distance and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. network for telecommunications operators, large corporations, small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), residential end users and Finnish service providers. "Finnet provides service uptime for a large proportion of Finland's communications' infrastructure, and we needed a vendor-independent, robust manager of managers that would scale as our IT infrastructure grows," said Eero Harala, Director, Production, Kaukoverkko Ysi. "We selected Micromuse's Netcool solution for its demonstrable ability to provide an end-to-end view of the entire service delivery infrastructure. This solution enables our operations teams to manage the uptime of current service offerings and quickly bring new products to market. The flexible architecture of the Netcool suite assures us that we have a strategic tool that is easily configurable to support new services and future products." After a competitive review of the available technologies, Finnet selected Netcool applications to provide overall monitoring of its service delivery infrastructure. The Netcool solution collects realtime status data from several network environments, including PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. , PDH PDH - Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy , SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy , IP, Voice over IP, and consolidates this information with event data from network devices and element management systems. The resulting end-to-end view of the network can then be segmented by customer, device or service. This helps enable Finnet's operators deliver realtime reporting and service monitoring. "Finnet is proactively seeking to grow revenue from data services while maintaining existing voice products and managing operational costs," said Richard Lowe, Micromuse's Vice President for Europe, the Middle East & Africa. "Micromuse's Netcool solution has a strong track record of providing a service level view across both voice and data networks, enabling Tier 1 carriers to focus on developing and maximizing revenues from services with existing resources, rather than adding headcount to manage increasingly complex and heterogeneous IT infrastructures." Cygate, an Accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. Netcool Reseller headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, was responsible for designing and implementing Finnet's Netcool service assurance solution. About Finnet Finnet is a Finnish telecommunications group, which offers all local and national voice-, data- and digital-tv services to its customers. The group consists of 44 companies: 37 local teleoperators and seven national business companies, which are DNA Finland DNA Finland is a mobile phone network in Finland operated by the Finnet group of phone companies. The member companies of Finnet are current or former telephone cooperatives. The DNA network was started after a split up in the Finnet group. Ltd, Kaukoverkko Ysi Ltd, Nettiportti Ltd, Finnish 2G Ltd, Finnish 3 G Ltd, Suomen 3KTV KTV Kleurentelevisie KTV Kunta-Alan Ammattiliitto (Finnish: Trade Union for the Municipal Sector) KTV Karaoke Television (China) KTV Koha Vision (Kosova TV station) Ltd and Finnet-Media Ltd. Finnet's main market is in Finland. The turnover of the group in 2001 was 665 million euros and the group employs 4 100 persons. The products and services of Finnet are e.g. long-distance calls, Baana Internet connections, dna DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. mobile and Internet services and TurvaLinja security solutions. More information on Finnet: http://www.finnet.fi. About Kaukoverkko Ysi Kaukoverkko Ysi plc is a national telecommunications operator, with an overall responsibility for the design, construction, operation, maintenance and marketing of a fixed long-distance network and a data communications network. KV9's responsibilities also include clearing, network maintenance and data services. Our customers include telephone companies, other telecommunications operators active in Finland and the end customers who use KV9's services. About Cygate Cygate is a leading supplier of secured and managed network solutions in Finland and Nordic countries. Using our extensive technological expertise, Cygate provides integrated solutions that meet its clients' needs for voice, data and video communication. Cygate designs, installs and maintains secure IP network solutions, which combine Cygate's own products and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality with those of its partners. Cygate also provides systems- and network management solutions. The Cygate Group has 260 employees and revenue of 105 million EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. (2001). Cygate has offices in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania. www.cygategroup.com About the Netcool Suite Micromuse's Netcool(R) software suite provides businesses with the assurance that their networks, services and applications are working. By allowing our customers to see what's happening throughout the infrastructure in realtime, Netcool applications enable them to respond to problems before they cause network-based business services to go down. Netcool suite applications install out-of-the-box, deploy rapidly and scale as networks grow. Micromuse's flagship, Netcool/OMNIbus(TM) application, includes a library of off-the-shelf software modules that allow our customers to collect and consolidate fault information from more than 300 popular environments spanning voice and IP, cable/broadband, switches and routers, and enterprise management systems. About Micromuse Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE) is the leading provider of service and business assurance software. Micromuse's recent list of awards include the Crossroads A-List Award for Best IP Network Diagnosis Product for the Netcool(R)/Visionary(TM) application. In addition, Micromuse was recently recognized in the Forbes 500, Bloomberg's Tech 100, the Barron's 500, the Business Week Info Tech 100, Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 500, the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the 500 and Network World's NW200. Micromuse customers include AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
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