As networks grow increasingly complex and companies rely on them more and more for mission critical processes, IT managers are faced with serious challenges to prevent outages, service disruptions and poor quality of service.

To help companies prevent problems caused by poor planning, network complexity and manual processes, Intelliden Inc. - which provides solutions for automating critical network processes such as configuration and change management, activation, compliance and security - and OPNET Technologies - which offers best-in-solutions for application performance management, network operations, capacity planning and design, and network R&D - have formed partnership to deliver enhanced solutions for network optimization. By combining their solutions, the two companies hope to give their customers the ability to drive greater operational efficiency, network availability and cost savings.

The deal will allow the companies’ customers to combine their strategic processes, such as network architecture, planning and operational network management, with automated network configuration and activation.

“Our partnership will deliver enhanced value to our mutual customers by combining critical information on real-time network configuration state from Intelliden with unique network-level analysis from OPNET including routing, addressing, protocol configuration, and network resiliency,” said Susan Cole, OPNET vice president of marketing and business development, in a press release. “Detailed configuration information from Intelliden could also be leveraged in OPNET for improved network planning, ‘what if’ analysis, and optimization.”

“Today’s IT and network organizations face tremendous pressures to support new services and maintain the quality of those services as their networks grow larger and more complex,” said Rahul Sachdev, Intelliden’s vice president of marketing. “With this new partnership, Intelliden and OPNET will combine the complimentary expertise of our two organizations to provide our joint customers with an improved ability to optimize their mission critical next generation networks. This will lead to reduced network configuration errors, greater streamlining of operational processes and more optimal use of existing network resources.”

For more information, visit www.intelliden.com and www.opnet.com.

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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.