INDT Studio: User Friendly Network Planning Tools
01 January 2002
Integrated Network Design Tool (INDT) Studio is a suite of tools to optimally plan, design and analyze service and transport networks. The application is the result of years of experience in network design from Bell Labs Advanced Technologies Performance Analysis Department. INDT covers multiple domains (services and transport technologies), multiple topologies (ring, mesh, and hybrid), multiple protection/restoration schemes (none, 1+1, shared capacity), and grooming. A variety of networks all over the world have been modeled in INDT Studio, including IP, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET/SDH and Optical. It can be used for End-to-End Network Design/Analyses, Performance Studies, Traffic Engineering, Network Planning, Restoration Studies, Costing, RFP responses, Studying/positioning new products and services, Competitive Analyses, Strategic Pricing and leveraging unique capabilities of target products.