Harris Corporation's NetBoss(TM) Selected for Major Expansion of Claro's Mobile Telecommunications Network
May 27 2004 - 9:59AM
PR Newswire (US)
Harris Corporation's NetBoss(TM) Selected for Major Expansion of
Claro's Mobile Telecommunications Network MELBOURNE, Fla., May 27
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Claro, one of the two largest mobile
telecommunications providers in Brazil, has again selected Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS) to support a major expansion of its
extensive GSM, TDMA and GPRS network. This expansion project will
result in one of the largest applications to date of the Harris
NetBoss(TM) network management system, managing more than 10,000
network devices with a capability of handling up to five million
events per day. Claro (formerly Telecom Americas) last year
implemented the Harris NetBoss system to centrally manage five
separate mobile networks throughout Brazil. Following the
acquisition of a sixth mobile network -- BCP, which covers
metropolitan Sao Paulo -- Claro awarded Harris an expansion project
contract that includes extending the existing network management
architecture, new hardware, and additional fault management
functionality for the new BCP network. In addition to the primary
network expansion components such as Sun Servers, Claro purchased
additional interfaces to support new network elements and alarm
correlation; the NetBoss Reporter tool, a customizable reporting
application; and the Harris Root Cause Analysis (RCA) module. "We
are extremely pleased that as part of Claro's continuing focus on
quality of service, they have once again selected Harris for a
major expansion project," said Rich Pappalardo, director of
International Sales, Harris Network Support Division. "In order to
accommodate their new acquisition and other expansion efforts, we
are implementing a solution developed specifically for
multi-operator companies -- a solution that incorporates benefits
of both distributed and centralized architectures. This enables
Claro to have one Network Operations Center with a complete view of
all six networks while simultaneously allowing regional sites to
access their own as well as the entire Claro network." Harris
NetBoss is an integrated network management application that
provides users the ability to administer and manage multivendor,
multiprotocol communications networks from a single console. This
enables service providers to quickly detect, isolate and rectify
service issues affecting network conditions. Claro is a subsidiary
of America Movil and is one of the two largest mobile operators in
Latin America, with more than 10 million customers in Brazil. Claro
owns six active mobile operators: ATL (Rio de Janeiro/Espirito
Santo), Americel (Minas Gerais), Claro Digital (Rio Grande do Sul),
Tess (interior of Sao Paulo), BCP (metropolitan Sao Paulo) and BSE
(the northeast). In addition, the Claro consortium owns two PCS
licenses, covering Parana, Santa Catarina, Bahia and Sergipe. With
more than 43 million customers in nine countries, Claro's parent
company, America Movil, headquartered in Mexico, is a leading
provider of mobile services in Latin America. Harris NSD, one of
five divisions within Harris Corporation, delivers advanced
management, test, and maintenance solutions for multivendor,
multiprotocol networks of public and private communications service
providers. Harris' assured communications(TM) solutions address the
increasingly complex needs of operations, maintenance, and
installation professionals in telecommunications, broadcast, and
defense markets worldwide. Harris Corporation, which also provides
government, tactical radio, broadcast, and microwave products and
systems, provides sales and services to customers in more than 150
countries. For more information, visit http://www.harris.com/.
DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Jennifer Fitch, Network
Support Division, +1-321-724-3716, , or Tom Hausman, Corporate
Headquarters, +1-321-727-9131, or , both of Harris Corporation Web
site: http://www.harris.com/
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