Netformx MPLS Designer™

Build MPLS Solutions into your Solutions Management

 

Netformx MPLS Designer is a desktop application that accelerates and validates the process of converting MPLS requirements into designs and proposals that can then be provisioned and implemented successfully.

 

The Challenges

According to a Forrester report, communications service providers see managed MPLS as a strategic, foundational component of their business going forward.
 

 “All of the service providers included in this evaluation have made a major long-term commitment to MPLS as a strategic technology.  They are using it to drive customer migration to IP networks to support a wide range of applications.”
Lisa Pierce & Brownlee Thomas, Ph.D., Forrester Research

However, the current MPLS requirements-to-order process in place today is cumbersome and lengthy involving numerous complex components.  Designs are often done manually or using multiple, stand-alone tools and systems resulting in an average of 40% of solutions being sold that cannot be provisioned and implemented as designed.

Netformx DesignXpert® is the leading integrated solution for designing physical networks.  However, no solution was available to automate the requirements-to-order process for advanced network services, such as MPLS … that is until now!

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MPLS Designer Overview

Netformx MPLS Designer is the first and only solution that recognizes there is something beyond the physical network – a complex set of network services that run on the network.  Only Netformx MPLS Designer can handle the hundreds of complex design parameters and corresponding business rules and pricing options of an MPLS network. Working in conjunction with Netformx DesignXpert®, MPLS Designer puts issues in the context of providing services, not just building or maintaining conventional physical networks.

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Key Features

Define important service components from both a technical and a business perspective including:

• Routing and switching protocols (e.g., BGP, EIGRP, OSPF)
• Partial and full mesh networks
• Access and speed
• Connectivity matrices and VRFs (Virtual Routing & Forwarding)
• Access options: IPSec, Frame Relay, DSL and Wireless
• Remote and RAS services
• QoS (Quality of Service) definitions
• Value-added services
• Diversity
• Extranet connectivity
• Specify contract agreements

Standardizes the delivery of services to match your company’s service offering definitions

• Ensure pricing information is accurate and consistent by making proposals more complete
• Prompt users to enter all required information
• Enforce corporate rules and provisioning constraints

Accelerates and automates design processes for MPLS services

• Easily correlate CPE and MPLS services designs
• Unify the view of needs in both wide area and edge configuration
• Leverage intuitive design with both graphical and tabular views
• Significantly reduce re-keying of information
• Minimize or eliminate time and resources required for error-checking

Generates detailed, professional-looking customer-facing documents including

• All information your customer needs to make a purchasing decision
• The details and context needed by your provisioning and implementation teams
• A common blueprint to be used for future designs and changes 
• An easy means to enter and compare information for many sites
• And a simplified process to upload information generated by DesignXpert and MPLS Designer to your sales force automation, provisioning and customer support systems

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Key Benefits:

Reduced Cost of Sale

• Shorten the sales cycle
• Identify additional revenue opportunities
• Reduce return-to-sale rate and associated costly design rework
• Use automated and more streamlined workflows
• Enable smooth transition from pre-sales to post-sales teams

Increase Productivity

• Replace manual processes and isolated tools with a single, fully integrated solution
• Provide easy access to your solution portfolio and pricing – as part of a private, centralized KnowledgeBase^TM
• Design anytime – anywhere – even when you don’t have a network connection
• Implement and enforce best practices across your organization 

Increase Design Accuracy

• Eliminate error-prone data entry into multiple tools
• Draw from the most up-do-date KnowledgeBase of products, services and pricing
• Validate designs in real time
• Leverage expertise from guided selling Advisors

Become a Trusted Advisor

• Collaborate with your customer using real time “what if” modeling
• Demonstrate the pros and cons of design options
• Sell Value ... not just products

Click Here to see how leading design professionals around the world are using Netformx Solutions to increase sales, improve productivity, promote collaboration and minimize errors throughout the entire requirements-to-order process.

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