ArTrac G4 Adds Real Time Performance Functionality For Networks

Real Time Performance features added to ArTrac G4, a Telecommunications Managed Network product.

(PRWEB) November 5, 2003 -- ArTrac G4, a fourth generation alarm, data and fault monitoring solution for telecommunications managed networks continues to grow not only in popularity, but also in functionality. The L.W. Hancock Corporation announced today the inclusion of their Real Time Performance plug-in as yet another enhancement to the feature rich product line for ArTrac G4. The Real Time Performance (RTP) plug-in measures telecom networks for a variety of key data indicators such as hits, frequencies, durations, voltages, min/max or other values. It then aggregates this information to beautiful 3D charts, graphs and diagrams. With one glance, you can see in real time exactly what is going on within your entire network, and recognize early trends before they become problems," says Peter Fedele, L.W. Hancock Corporation Technical Director.

The features of a Real Time Performance plug-in are important to this industry. Many telecom switches send information to a printer, screen, or a file. Other monitoring solutions may give hourly or daily reports based on this historical information, but ArTrac G4 graphically displays the information Operations Managers and Switch Engineers need to see in real time. Additionally, it presents performance markers on screen that allow you to see how equipment is performing in relation to acceptable parameters.

ArTrac G4 does more than show nice 3D pictures of your network's performance in real time; it acts on the information it gathers intelligently. Using two-way messaging and notification, via SMS and e-mail messages, ArTrac G4 communicates directly to maintenance personnel and offers them the choice to respond back via cell phone, wireless PDA, laptop, or other web capable devices. The ArTrac G4 system then can be told, even from remote locations, to acknowledge the alarm, inhibit, clear the event, or perform other operations. In this way, maintenance personnel can now take action on the event and dialogue directly with ArTrac G4, saving time and resources.

"While ArTrac is designed as a full-featured stand-alone Operations Support System, many of our customers are finding that it offers cost effective enhancements to their existing Network Operations Centers (NOC). In such uses, ArTrac G4 has been implemented to provide web-browser based local market functions presently lacking in their NOC design. Perhaps more importantly, it greatly reduces the cost of extending the capabilities of their existing NOC facility by leveraging their existing investment with the newer network languages, 2-way wireless interfaces, and powerful web-browser based graphical features found in ArTrac G4. It is a marriage made in integration heaven - it is a solution that our client's IT managers and financial managers really love too," says Lyle Hancock, President of LW Hancock Corporation.

About LW Hancock Corporation: L.W. Hancock Corporation specializes in ultra high reliability Telecommunications Managed Network products for the telecommunications industry and is leading the way with the most technologically advanced telecommunications network fault and data management platform, the ArTrac G4 system. Our team has over 25 years of experience developing award-winning products, many of which helped to shape the industry. L W Hancock Corporation has a growing list of global telecommunications companies that rely on our products for network quality assurance, fault and data management, and operations management systems. You are invited to search their web site at www.lwhancock.com for additional information regarding the company.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
William Botos
LW Hancock Corporation
+1 702-228-9054
http://www.lwhancock.com

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