Carriers and service providers, around the globe, are facing explosive demand for bandwidth, driven by residential triple-play, business Ethernet, and Ethernet mobile backhaul. Adopting Carrier Ethernet services becomes the global technology choice, thanks to compelling capabilities such as standardized service definitions, QoS, and improved scalability. With potentially hundreds of thousands of subscribers with varying service requirements, the complexity of troubleshooting, and maximizing network efficiency increases significantly.

Watch4net APG offers a very flexible and scalable solution to address this challenge. Watch4net is working with leading network equipment vendors to ensure product interoperability, and to provide true end-to-end service measurements in terms of frame delivery, latency and QoS. The Watch4net APG solution has been designed to allow providers to deliver profitable SLA-based Carrier Ethernet services for business, wholesale and mobile backhaul applications.

Watch4net is a member of the Metro-Ethernet Forum (MEF) to comply with industry recommendations.

• Improve infrastructure performance and service quality by using KPIs associated with their business drivers
• Manage the return path by continuous and proactive network health monitoring to discover issues before it impacts customers
• Adequately plan capacity upgrade and support investment decisions by giving baseline and forecast reports of key metrics
• Leverage existing investments in other management systems by integrating business and technical data directly in the APG solution
• Improve troubleshooting and fault isolation by integrating performance metrics and alarms and change control in the same dashboard
• Scale to any network size by matching the network growth using only a small number of servers