Accanto Systems Selected by H3G Austria for Customer Service Assurance. Reaches Eight New Service Provider Customers in 2011

HELSINKI, Finland, December 29, 2011 - Accanto Systems, a pioneer in Customer Service Assurance solutions for today’s converged networks, announced today that H3G  Austria has selected Accanto’s Adaptive Customer Service Assurance (CSA) platform to provide centralized monitoring to its growing 3G and NGN network in Austria. 
 
With its international footprint H3G Austria is a growing presence in the fast-moving world of mobile telecom. To ensure further growth and reduce customer churn in the face of network convergence and increasingly complicated services, it was imperative that H3G Austria monitor not only the network and services, but how the end users were actually experiencing the services. After analyzing multiple approaches, H3G Austria decided to completely upgrade its existing network management system (NMS) to a full-blown Customer Service Assurance platform.  Accanto was selected after a thorough evaluation.
 
“The requirements for the new monitoring system were exhaustive,” said Peter Lengheim, of H3G’s Core Network Engineering management group. “Amongst other things, the new system needed to handle different network domains such as the Core, the RAN IP and Interconnect.  It also had to provide real-time monitoring and statistics of all of our service quality indicators. Accanto’s Adaptive Customer Service Assurance solution proved it could easily handle all of these requirements, and scale with us for the foreseeable future.” 
 
With revenue growth of over 50% in the last 12 months, the H3G Austria deployment marks the eighth major customer win for Accanto in the same time period. Accanto has also recently earned both the B/OSS Live! Excellence Award for Best Customer Experience Improvement, as well as Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Award for its Service Assurance market leadership.

“We are proud to have been chosen by such a progressive operator, who truly understands the importance of creating a customer-centric, end-to-end view of their network and services,” said Paolo Trevisan, VP of Marketing and Product Management at Accanto Systems. “To compete effectively in the hyper-competitive world of mobile telecom, it is operators like H3G Austria, who are transforming monitoring and troubleshooting from a ‘necessary evil’ to a strategic business enabler, who will be the ultimate winners.”

For more info on Accanto Adaptive CSA, visit: http://accantosystems.com/products/customer-service-assurance

About Accanto Systems
With solutions deployed to 180 customers in over 60 countries, Accanto Systems is a leading supplier of advanced Customer Service Assurance and troubleshooting solutions to communications service providers. Accanto’s probe-based Customer Service Assurance solutions provide in-depth monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting capabilities, helping operators overcome the massive challenges associated with migration to converged, next-generation telecom architectures. Their solutions can be utilized by any level of the organization, from the NOC to Marketing, and scale easily for use by new technicians all the way to technical experts. Accanto’s team of OSS and Operations consultants allow each Accanto solution to be optimized and fully integrated into the organizations’ operational and business processes. Visit www.accantosystems.com.
 
About H3G Austria
Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH started in May 2003 with the brand 3 as the first sole mobile multi media provider in Austria. 3 offers multimedia products such as mobile television, music, video calling on the UMTS-handset and in addition provides the classic ways of communication (voice calling, SMS and MMS) and as well mobile broadband. 3 has enriched its offer with popular internet services such as Facebook, Google and eBay on every 3mobile. 3 is the only Austrian mobile provider which offers its own application store for various mobiles. Furthermore 3 provides more than 80 mobileTV and radio channels on 3mobiles as well as on 3data modems. Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH counts 1.222 Mio. customers (as per August 2011), 30.2 Mio. customers worldwide, and is wholly owned by Hutchison Whampoa Limited in Hong Kong.

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