"The productivity and scalability requirements for a platform serving as a base for our Network Inventory system were sky-high. We knew that we will collect a lot of data and that it will be used by great numbers of people at the same time”  - Bogdan Klata, Network Inventory Manager at ASTER Ltd.

Network Inventory systems do not increase the turnover or income of operators in a direct way, yet it is thanks to them that operators acquire the operational efficiency expected by their clients and shareholders. Instantaneous access to information about the network, its components, the parameters of hardware installed along with its usability statistics and configuration details is in today’s telecommunications worth its weight in gold.

Owing to mapping of the network in the system, an operator can automatically run processes, which otherwise would take many days or weeks to finish. Registering new clients, granting them access to particular services and their features, swift introduction of new services, planning network development, efficient debt collection, analyzing failures’ effects — all these are Network Inventory-propelled.

The scale of benefits of Network Inventory system is dependent on the extent to which the system reflects the physical network, and on the business processes that make use of the collected data. Due to technological aspects of provided services, the Network Inventory system of Triple Play network based on HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial) technology is far more complicated than it is the case of traditional copper and optical networks. For this very reason ASTER has decided to build a new Network Inventory from scratch. After several trial projects we opted for Suntech to execute the proposed Microsoft® SQL Server-based Network Inventory system. According to Bogdan Klata, “Suntech has displayed the necessary proficiency in the field, makes use of proven technologies and employs specialists capable of realizing a project of this scale.”
 

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