TELUS Chooses Astellia for end-to-end Mobile Broadband Performance Optimization

RENNES, France, October 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Astellia, a leading provider of monitoring solutions for the optimization of mobile network QoS and performance has been chosen by TELUS to enhance customer experience. Under the multi-million dollar agreement, Astellia will provide TELUS its unified service assurance system covering 3G UTRAN and Core data networks. The system incorporates Astellia's latest technology including multidimensional analytics for data.

Using Astellia's all-in-one solution will enable TELUS to serve the needs of multiple teams such as network performance, optimization, NOC, handset validation, marketing and management. This will contribute to achieving successful smartphone introduction and to accelerating new mobile application adoption with outstanding customer experience.

In addition, TELUS will benefit from Astellia's end-to-end monitoring solution for UTRAN and Core PS network performance optimization and troubleshooting. Fueled by Astellia technology, and data coming from TELUS network equipment, the system will provide TELUS with further insight into network performance and subscribers' quality of service.

"We are extremely pleased about this partnership with TELUS and look forward to supporting their mobile broadband growth strategy. This major contract reflects the strong recognition from Tier one operators for Astellia's unique end-to-end mobile broadband monitoring solution," commented Rajesh Sharma, VP Sales & Customer Operations at Astellia.

''We chose Astellia's all-in-one solution because of its advanced and integrated End-to-End capabilities," commented Raymond Saoumah, TELUS national director of Planning & Engineering. "It gives our engineers and client support teams the ability to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues across various elements of our HSPA network."

About TELUS: http://www.telus.com

About Astellia: http://www.astellia.com

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