CENX Introduces Utilization Management and Small Cell Support in Release 5

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Enhances capacity planning and Ethernet services visualization

CENX unveiled Release 5 of the company's flagship Service
Orchestration software solution, CENX Ethernet Lifecycle Manager.
Release 5 delivers enhanced Utilization Management, which enables
network planning teams to use extensive analytics to identify network
hot spots and under-utilized capacity, maximize network efficiency,
and forecast timing of CAPEX investment. CENX Ethernet Lifecycle
Manager 5 also delivers scalable small cell support, thereby
providing a common Service Orchestration solution to support large
scale deployments of both microcell and macrocell technologies. With
Release 5, service providers can reduce OPEX and defer CAPEX through
improved capacity planning, improve the customer experience, and
easily support and manage additional Ethernet topologies such as
small cell, Ethernet Over SONET and microwave.

News

- CENX Ethernet Lifecycle Manager 5 features new capabilities designed to
reduce OPEX, defer CAPEX, and easily support and manage small cells as part of their
Ethernet transport services.
- The enhanced Utilization Analytics module enables service providers to more
effectively manage bandwidth utilization across their network. CENX Ethernet Lifecycle
Manager 5 correlates network data and utilization statistics and identifies capacity
congestion points at a per-UNI, per-NNI and per Ethernet Virtual Circuit (EVC) basis.
It can also identify under-utilized segments of your network, thereby enabling you to
more effectively optimize OPEX expenses.
- Release 5 brings support for new topologies including small cell, Ethernet
Over SONET, and microwave, allowing service providers to manage fault, capacity, and
performance in a single end-to-end view across a wider range of Ethernet topology
types.
- Release 5 features improved vertical scalability to support more than 100,000
microcell and macrocell sites, and enhanced horizontal scalability, thereby providing
a future-proof Service Orchestration solution.
- CENX Ethernet Lifecycle Manager 5 is expected to be available in Q2 2014.

Quotes Ed Ogonek CENX President and CEO

"Global service providers tell us that millions of dollars are
spent each year on premature capacity upgrades," said Ed Ogonek, CENX
President and CEO. "CENX Ethernet Lifecycle Manager 5 gives network
planning teams the tools to invest in precise capacity and
performance enhancements based on what is needed, and when it is
required. Our support for small cell showcases the scalability and
future-proof value of the CENX solution as a common Ethernet
transport Services Orchestration platform."

Market backdrop

- Cisco predicts that mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold between 2012
and 2017. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 66 percent between 2012 and 2017,
reaching 11.2 exabytes per month by 2017. This highlights the need for better aligning
network capacity timing and CAPEX investment.
- Infonetics
[http://www.infonetics.com/pr/2013/1H13-Small-Cell-Mobile-Backhaul-Market-Highlights.asp ]
expects a cumulative $3.6 billion to be spent worldwide on outdoor small cell
backhaul equipment between 2013 to 2017. Deployments of outdoor small cells will be
driven largely by mobile operators' needs to enhance saturated macrocellular networks
in urban, high-traffic areas and improve the mobile broadband experience.

About CENX Ethernet Lifecycle Manager

- CENX Ethernet Lifecycle Manager
[http://www.cenx.com/ethernet-lifecycle-manager/ethernet-lifecycle-manager.html ] is
the industry's only software and services solution focused on automating the
orchestration of Carrier Ethernet transport services for mobile backhaul
[http://www.cenx.com/solutions/mobile-backhaul.html ], cloud data center Ethernet
exchanges [http://www.cenx.com/solutions/cloud-data-center.html ], and Ethernet
access [http://www.cenx.com/solutions/ethernet-access.html ] providers in today's
networks and next generation software-defined networks.
- At the core of the CENX solution is a services-centric information model that
brings together data from existing operational support systems, network elements and
other disparate sources. The CENX solution applies big data analytics and automation
to audit, unify and correlate these fragmented data inputs into actionable services
intelligence. It provides end-to-end visualization of Ethernet services, including
off-net services, provided by third party alternate access providers.
- CENX Ethernet Lifecycle Manager features software and services modules that
deliver tangible business results including 70%+ improvement in inventory accuracy,
80%+ reduction in services turn-up time, and an estimated 20%+ improvement in
operations savings.

Meet with CENX at Mobile World Congress on February 24-27 in
Barcelona, Spain. Hospitality Suite 2J12 - Hall 2
http://www.cenx.com/learn/events/mwc-2014.html

About CENX CENX provides Service Orchestration solutions for
Ethernet transport in today's IP networks and new generation
Software-Defined Networks. We bring the power of Web 2.0, automation
and big data analytics to visualize Ethernet transport services, and
orchestrate service delivery across multiple operator networks. With
CENX, service providers and cloud exchange providers can accelerate
time to revenue, visualize services end-to-end, and assure
inter-carrier performance - across the entire Ethernet lifecycle.
http://www.cenx.com

For further information:

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Zonic Group PR
hwhitrow@zonicgroup.com
+44(0)1672-550126

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