Italy’s WINDTRE chooses EXFO service assurance
Delivering top customer experience across a telco cloud network
A key goal for WINDTRE, Italy’s top mobile service provider and a leading alternative fixed network operator, is to be recognized as the best service provider in the country for quality of customer experience. To achieve that, the company has made an impressive, multi-billion euro investment in network virtualization to pave the way for 5G. That investment includes a variety of service assurance solutions from EXFO’s Nova line.
To meet bandwidth, mobility, latency and encryption needs, cloud-based 5G networks require fast, automated and dynamic resource scaling. In this context, customer experience is a major challenge for operators migrating to network virtualization and 5G—especially for IoT and business-to-business (B2B) market applications. They must deliver a highly reliable network with comprehensive, consistent coverage.
To meet that challenge, WINDTRE selected EXFO over competing service assurance vendors, including the incumbent provider, to deliver service assurance solutions for network performance, service quality monitoring and troubleshooting.
“WINDTRE has invested significantly—€6 billion over the past five years—in innovative systems and modern infrastructures, because we believe that true competitive advantage comes from delivering top quality customer experience,” said Benoit Hanssen, WINDTRE Chief Technology Officer. “EXFO stood out for its expertise in service assurance from 5G and network virtualization, which will allow us to move forward with confidence during our network transformation.”
“We are pleased to support WINDTRE’s goals for best customer experience,” said Abdelkrim Benamar, EXFO Vice President of Service Assurance, Systems, and Services. “Our new breed of service assurance will help WINDTRE ensure the delivery of high-quality 5G services and network virtualization across Italy."
EXFO will be providing service assurance covering all network technologies, from 2G through 5G core networks, and core IP multimedia subsystems (IMS). Solutions will span EXFO’s Nova applications—specifically Nova Core—in addition to virtual probes, supporting WINDTRE network and service operations.
