Telefonica banks on Lucent to better Performance Management

Telefónica de España has decided to bank on Lucent Technologies to better its management of its global network. According to Olegario Méndez, corporate network operations manager at Telefónica de España "We chose Lucent's VitalSuite Application Performance Management software to significantly increase our overall network and application performance," .

Lucent will assist Telefónica Sistemas, the European telecom's IT department, which is responsible for managing Telefonica's worldwide network with requisite tools to monitor key applications and system resources.Additionally Lucent will also provide Telefónica with requisite amount of consultation and network integration services to enable Telefónica successfully deploy Lucent's VitalSuite into their network.

VitalSuite® Application Performance Management software provides top-to-bottom visibility into-and end-to-end control over-the entire infrastructure. VitalSuite is ideal where monitoring monitor multi vendor equipment in networks is esential. It is the winner of the NetworkWorld "World Class Award" for best performance management system and it also provides real-time visibility for tracking, analyzing and predicting the behavior of all business-critical IP-based applications enterprise-wide - including monitoring every user transaction from the desktop to the network to the destination server and back.

Telefónica de España had earlier this month, announced it sought the help from French technology provider Alcatel to offer high bandwidth interactive services to its residential and corporate subscribers. Lucent on the other hand is backed by Bell laboratories and has its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers.