C Spire Selects Centina Systems for Strategic Service Assurance.
Centina Systems announced that C Spire™ will deploy its NetOmnia™ suite of solutions for service assurance. This will include real-time end-to-end network visibility for improved troubleshooting and problem resolution.
C Spire is a full service provider of Internet, telecommunications, and network services. The company offers Triple Play services to residential customers along with a suite of fixed and wireless services to businesses and backhaul network services to wireless carriers in the southeastern U.S. C Spire, which also operates the nation’s largest privately held wireless network, will implement Centina’s NetOmnia out-of-the-box, all-in-one solution for Fault and Performance Management, Ethernet Assurance and SLA Manager to monitor the company’s entire infrastructure, including Ethernet, optical, core, access networks for business, and FTTH for residential offerings.
C Spire maintains over 4,500 route miles of fiber optic cable infrastructure throughout Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida (states in which it is certified as a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier), which includes 43 DWDM Spans, 95 OC-48 SONET Rings, 18 OC-192 SONET Rings, two regional MPLS networks and five Ethernet backbone rings, all of which will be monitored by NetOmnia.
With NetOmnia, C Spire can now improve its operational and business performance through an end-to-end unified view of the network and real-time SLA monitoring. NetOmnia’s advanced analytics and capacity planning reporting will enable C Spire Fiber to improve network performance and customer experience.
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