Leader in network management solutions to provide top-tier operator with Celcite‘s SON solution for autonomous network management

Herndon, VA, USA: June 19, 2013 – Celcite, the world’s most advanced and experienced provider of self optimizing network / self organizing network (SON) and automated network management solutions to mobile network operators, today announced that a top five global mobile operator will deploy Celcite’s SON in several key markets.

Celcite SON is a self-optimizing network / self-organizing network solution (SON) that will allow the network operator to trigger autonomous network configurations in near real-time. Some of the world's largest mobile network operators, biggest megacities and most widely watched sports and cultural events are all being optimized by Celcite SON today. Celcite SON has been built on proprietary algorithms developed by Celcite which incorporate in excess of 500,000 man hours of network management experience.

Facing an increased demand for data services and the complexity of managing multiple wireless access technologies, the operator chose Celcite SON to reduce both CAPEX and OPEX, and simplify network management.  The deployment provides the global network operator with a centralized SON solution which continuously configures, optimizes and self-heals its networks, ensuring that radio performance always remains at optimum levels and that the best possible end-user experience is achieved.

Compared to a distributed self optimizing network / self organizing network (D-SON) implementation, centralized SON (C-SON) from Celcite gives the broadest and most coordinated view of radio network performance, and has been proven to deliver more than 15% improvements in capacity utilization and over 20% improvement in dropped call rates across the network.

“While SON is currently attracting a lot of attention from mobile network operators, they cannot afford to take a risk on a partner that does not have deep, detailed, real-world experience of delivering SON in live networks,” said Ajay Khanna, CTO and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Celcite.  “Celcite is the most advanced and experienced vendor with live SON deployment experience, with several on-going SON rollouts and numerous SON trials underway worldwide.  Runaway SON systems can make networks worse, not better, but that risk can be eliminated by an experienced, advanced SON vendor.”