CENX, Ixia, Mitel, and VMware Champion Mobile Service Assurance for Virtual Evolved Packet Core

Ottawa, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) -

CENX (http://cenx.com/), the global leader of orchestrated service
management and assurance solutions for physical and virtualized
networks, today announced it has successfully interoperated with
Ixia, Mitel, and VMware to demonstrate comprehensive real-time
assurance of mobile data services for virtual Evolved Packet Core
(vEPC). Using CENX's Exanova Service Intelligence
(http://cenx.com/products/exanova-service-intelligence-for-sdn-nfv/),
mobile service providers can rapidly realize high quality of
experience (QoE) for VoLTE, VoWiFi, and data enterprise and consumer
subscribers, over large-scale, hybrid networks including vEPC. The
demonstration will be shown at Mobile World Congress 2016.

Market demand for reliable Internet of Things (IoT), dynamically
scalable connectivity, and cloud services is driving service
providers to expand differentiated service offerings, and leverage
the agility, elasticity and cost-efficiency of NFV infrastructure
(NFVI). Real-time, continuous monitoring and analytics of millions of
network events is crucial to provide operations with actionable,
automated intelligence to deliver high enterprise and consumer
service QoE across multi-vendor, hybrid networks.

The CENX, Ixia, Mitel, and VMware demonstration showcases
optimized real-time service assurance, within the context of
Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO):

- CENX's Exanova Service Intelligence (http://cenx.com/products/exano
va-service-intelligence-for-sdn-nfv/) provides end-to-end
visualization, performance monitoring, and analysis of the
real-time state of services across all segments of the multi-vendor
network path, pinpointing fault root cause and impact on subscriber
QoE;
- Ixia's IxLoad[TM] Wireless
(http://www.ixiacom.com/products/ixload-wireless) delivers
full-featured application testing of wireless networks and
components, emulating real-world subscriber traffic from LTE and
WiFi Offload base stations to mobile core at scale, for
fast-tracking new network services with proven quality;
- Mitel's vEPC virtual functions provide the feature-rich,
high-performance evolved Packet Data Gateway
(http://mitel.ca/products/mobile/evolved-packet-data-gateway)
(ePDG) and Packet Gateway
(http://mitel.ca/products/mobile/packet-gateway-pgw) (PGW)
platforms for secure connections over untrusted non-3GPP WiFi or
3GPP-compliant LTE access networks;
- VMware vCloud® NFV
(http://www.vmware.com/industry/telco/overview.html)(TM) enables
CSPs to deploy a unified, multi-vendor and multi-function NFV
platform that supports any application at all stages of cloud
evolution. The vCloud NFV platform includes production-proven NFVI
Solutions, openness in cloud management through VMware Integrated
OpenStack (http://www.vmware.com/products/openstack/) and Service
Assurance with Day 2 and Ongoing Operations.

"Mobile and NFV technologies continue to innovate at a tremendous
pace, and we're excited to be collaborating with industry leaders,
Ixia, Mitel, and VMware, to bring comprehensive solutions to market,"
said Jay McMullan, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing,
CENX. "With Exanova Service Intelligence's real-time visualization
and detailed KPI analytics, operators can quickly navigate their
network, isolate faults, and trigger automated workflows for
proactive service assurance. This ensures high subscriber
satisfaction, driving top line revenues, and also makes the most of
infrastructure investment, netting bottom line gains."

"Ixia is excited to be working with CENX, Mitel, and VMware to
enable virtual Evolved Packet Core verification and validation," said
Ixia's Scott Westlake, Vice President of Business Development. "As
carriers accelerate their transition to NFV, it's critical that
Lifecycle Service Orchestration solutions provide scalable and
realistic performance, resilience and security testing to deliver
high quality services."

"Mitel has been an early adopter of NFV and understands well both
the tremendous flexibility and the potential complexity of fully
virtualized network solutions," said Terry McCabe, CTO of Mitel's
Mobile Division. "Working with CENX, Ixia, and VMware gives us a
sophisticated set of management and analytics capabilities to operate
our 4G LTE network solutions with an intelligence that matches the
subscriber services that we enable."

"Working with our broad ecosystem of NFV partners, VMware is
driving the next evolution in business transformation for global
service providers," said David Wright, vice president of operations,
Telco NFV Group, VMware. "Through this type of collaboration with
CENX, Ixia, and Mitel, we will collectively give service providers
the confidence to quickly move from proof of concept to production
NFV to accelerate time-to-market and overall service assurance for
new and differentiated offerings."

To see this demonstration of real-time service QoE assurance at
Mobile World Congress at CENX booth 2F50, or at the VMware NFV
Pavilion 3K10, book your meeting today
(http://info.cenx.com/mwc2016-0).

About CENX

CENX transforms network big data into real-time actionable
intelligence. We accelerate end-to-end operations by harnessing
dynamic analytics and web-scale computing to visualize, manage and
assure data services across multi-vendor, SDN and NFV networks. Our
software solutions are deployed by the largest, most innovative
service providers worldwide. http://www.cenx.com

About Ixia

Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) provides testing, visibility and security
solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual
networks for enterprises, service providers and network equipment
manufacturers. Ixia offers companies trusted environments in which to
develop, deploy and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia to
verify their designs, optimize their performance and ensure
protection of their networks to make their applications stronger.
Learn more at http://www.ixiacom.com.

About Mitel

A global market leader in enterprise and mobile communications
powering more than 2 billion business connections and 2 billion
mobile subscribers every day, Mitel (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW) helps
businesses and mobile carriers connect, collaborate and provide
innovative services to their customers. Our innovation and
communications experts serve more than 60 million business users in
more than 100 countries, and 130 mobile service providers including
15 of the top 20 mobile carriers in the world. That makes us unique,
and the only company able to provide a bridge between enterprise and
mobile customers. For more information, go to http://www.mitel.com
and follow us on Twitter @Mitel.

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relationship between VMware and any other company.

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