A top-five US Cable company with 5 million subscribers, collaborated with Pate to roll out voice services in seven geographical regions. With a customer directive that telephony services rollout cannot be delayed due to business objectives and marketing campaign plans, Pate accomplished the main part of the project in 90 days.

	Traffic Data Collection and Monitoring Pate conducted a network switch and circuit inventory to determine sources of traffic. Voice and OSS traffic loads (avg. load, peak load, time of peak, etc.) were measured.
	Traffic Simulation Forecasted traffic loads were computed using customer growth rate forecasts, traffic flow simulations (based on the architecture of the network), and modeling algorithms.
	Capacity Planning Traffic simulation data was used to plan network capacity and expansion. This data was also used to determine NOC locations and architectures.
	Network Design and OSS Integration ATM and SONET technologies were more extensively deployed on the network to accommodate additional traffic, and OSS integration plans were changed to more realistically reflect the capabilities and availability of new releases of vendor systems.

Pate successfully assisted a leading RBOC in enhancing its existing Traffic Management and Operations Systems. Developed and implemented an on-line Asset Discovery and Management System (ADMS).

	TDMS / Switched Internally developed a series of Legacy traffic collection and reporting solutions based on HTML and JAVA. The systems provide multiple users with Web-based, desk-top access to Network Management Information such as network failures, performance degradation and trouble reports from existing support systems.
	Internet Implemented traffic collection and management solution using a commercial SNMP management platform (NV6000) in conjunction with RMONII and serial probes (Frontier and Axon). Concord was used to provide traffic reporting information that was distributed using Web pages.

Developed and successfully deployed AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) software for a telephony network with 60 Tandem switches and 40 Cisco routers. The project had a $25 million budget and included 28 software / hardware engineers.

AIN is a telephone network architecture that separates service logic from switching equipment, allowing new services to be added without having to redesign switches to support new services. The Korean AIN design includes: account card calling, call forwarding, call routing, split charging / billing, call screening, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and a variety of other features.

A leading Asian service provider collaborated with Pate on a TMN -based network management solution that gives customers a choice (an industry first) on whether to place a long distance call over a Switched or over a VoIP network. In the course of the project, we co-developed the Connection and Configuration Management, Fault Management / Event Correlation, Traffic Data Collection, and Capacity Planning applications for switched, broadband and IP based networks.

Guided a California based wireless hardware and software vendor in developing Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) voice, messaging, data network management and provisioning solutions (for wireless local loop and packet networks). Pate’s engineers lead the development of Status Handling, Fault-Management, and Resource Allocation systems.

The nations largest mutual funds company with $690 billion in assets and a carrier class network uses Pate and tools from Make Systems to profile the impact of continued growth in voice traffic and data intensive applications on its network. Network capacity forecasts are used to drive network expansion plans, to negotiate contracts with telephony service providers, and to define the evolving architecture of the network.

One of the world’s largest communications equipment and software companies relied on Pate to define product features in its next generation of OSS software for Convergent Networks. Pate’s efforts were focused on three areas: Network Congestion Management, Network Performance Management and SLA Monitoring, and Network Capacity Planning and Management.

To accomplish this project, Pate visited and interviewed operations executives from eleven US service providers. In addition, each provider was asked to fill out an extensive feature definition questionnaire containing open ended and multiple-choice questions.

Developed the TransMATES Trunk Testing for an Asian telephony equipment and software manufacturer that resolves network transmission problems. The system is unique in that it can receive and analyze trunk data in a digital format vs. converting analog data into a digital format (to perform the analysis) and then re-converting the data again. The software portion of the project was budgeted at $3 million and included 20 software engineers.

Designed and implemented a Document Delivery System (DDS) for an international Fax and Fax-over- IP services provider. Each day this provider processes several hundred thousand faxes, of which 5% could not previously be "delivered automatically" and required human intervention. With Guaranteed Delivery being an essential to its business customers, the provider could not profitably service existing business volumes.

With business volumes increasing rapidly and new contracts on hold, the provider needed a quick solution. Pate’s automated delivery system (DDS) was designed in less then 30 days and enabled this provider to realize a 75% workload reduction in the Data Analysis Center (which handles faxes that cannot be transmitted) staffing levels. As a result, the provider was able to take on additional business and return to profitability.

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