Key to the profitability of your network is the tuning of your network elements to deliver the maximum performance for the least amount of capital investment and cost of service expense. If you can't monitor the key performance indicators in your network then it is guaranteed that your cost of service and customer churn rate is higher than it should be. Worse yet, you're spending profits on growth projects that may not be necessary.

With the emergence of 3G and 3GPP technologies and the push to deliver wireless data services to your customers, the complexion of managing network resources has changed significantly. As a result, the lines of responsibility have become blurred between Operations and Maintenance and IT for many wireless operators. The ArTrac G4 Real Time Performance system brings those lines back into focus. By presenting up-to-the-minute 3D charts of key performance indicators, organized intelligently and color coded for easy interpretation, the ArTrac G4 Real Time Performance system assists you in fine tuning your network to deliver quality to the customer at minimum cost.

The ArTrac G4 Real Time Performance system is a web browser based graphical interface for your OSS system that presents high quality real time 3D charts and graphs which detail the real-time performance of your telecommunications network. It is highly interactive with the user and highly customizable. Like all other ArTrac G4 products, presentation, configuration, and administration is well thought out, making it easy to implement and use. The ArTrac G4 Real Time Performance system offers these attractive features:

• Fully integrated with all other Sierra Vista, BLIP , and  ArTrac G4 OSS products
• 100% browser based screens - fully tested with Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Konquerer and with all major operating systems
• Thumbnail views of charts allows you to view many key performance indicators at one time
• Adjustable performance markers help you to see how well key performance indicators are performing in relationship to acceptable tolerances
• Performance charts are organized into a collection of folders which can be opened and viewed as thumbnails or full sized charts with a single click of your mouse
• Key performance indicators are color coded according to levels of performance. Indicators that are moving out of acceptable tolerance are easy to identify with a single glance.
• Critical, Major, Minor, Observational, and Informational alarm thresholds are supported
• When used with the ArTrac G4 Fault Management suite or other OSS platforms which support performance alert integration, key performance indicators can be mediated using all of the functionality of the OSS
• Flexible user administration features allows you to make performance charts visible only to those with permission to view them. Permissions are granted on a per-user and per-chart folder basis.
• No limits to the number of charts and folders supported
• No limits to the number of key performance indicators monitored
• Supports 3D series line charts, bar charts, floating bar charts, pie charts, area charts, and bubble charts to give you outstanding flexibility in viewing your network's indicators
• Supports data normalization, scaling, instantaneous measurement, averaging, peak and valley detection
• Supports frequency measurement, hit counters, duration measurement, and literal value aggregation
• Supports any measurement period and sample period in one-shot or continuous mode (per key performance indicator)
• When used with the ArTrac G4 2-Way Notification Plug-In, important performance alerts can be sent to your cell phone, wireless PDA, 2-Way pager, or any other wireless device which supports SMS or e-mail
• When used with the ArTrac G4 Graphical Reports Generator, you can receive daily, hourly, weekly, monthly and annual management reports.
• Historical performance data is stored for over a full year
• Can deliver performance status data to any upstream or downstream OSS or BSS system

No other performance management system delivers these valuable features with real-time performance.