AINN Applied Innovation (MM)

DUBLIN, Ohio, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Applied Innovation Inc. (NASDAQ:AINN) today announced that Jack Petro, CTO, has been accepted to present as part of the Next Generation Networks Track at the TelecomNEXT trade show in Las Vegas, NV, on Monday, March 20, 2006 at 2:20 pm. Mr. Petro will be presenting "Virtual Site Technicians - Next Generation Network Operations for Converging Networks". The presentation will discuss how evolving wireless and wireline carriers have dramatically increased complexity at the edge of today's networks. This growing complexity changes the optimal methods of controlling maintenance and operational costs in increasingly competitive regional and national markets. Edge complexity has largely been driven by high-availability environments and evolving data service offerings and many carriers have now reached a critical inflection point whereby field technicians do not have the ability to support ever- increasing numbers of remote sites and the wide array of equipment they contain. Many of the world's leading carriers are turning to 'Virtual Site Technicians' (VSTs) to provide existing operations personnel with remote capabilities, allowing them to perform proactive maintenance and reactive troubleshooting from virtually anywhere. A VST solution may provide: - Visibility to provide advanced, granular alarm monitoring, ensuring intelligent site dispatches - The capability to perform specific application testing to derive customer experience metrics and service assurance data - The ability to execute critical tasks through secure intranet applications (traditionally done only through physical site visits) thereby reducing 'drive time' (and associated costs) allowing highly trained staff to concentrate on revenue generating network and services deployment - A collection point for pertinent performance data used to calculate Service Quality Metrics and Service Level Agreement compliance - The ability to share historical data to identify trends and initiate proactive versus reactive maintenance procedures This session will investigate the emerging trend of using VSTs to facilitate the reallocation of up to 40% of operational resources to revenue producing activities and prevent network outages using automated maintenance. The result is more effective use of operations personnel in wireless, wireline and rapidly converging architectures. This presentation includes results from a recent market study, a sample deployment, a case study and an introduction to new processes and systems required to reallocate valuable resources to revenue producing activities without sacrificing network quality. TelecomNEXT will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 19-23, 2006. For more information on TelecomNEXT, go to http://www.telecom-next.com/. About Applied Innovation Applied Innovation provides hardware and software applications that drive operational efficiency and improved quality in wireless, wireline and converging networks. Applied's industry-leading solutions include sophisticated remote site management, 3G network data quality monitoring and logical security of critical networks. Applied Innovation solutions are currently installed in more than 34,000 sites worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Applied is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol AINN. For more information, please visit the Company's Web site at http://www.appliedinnovation.com/. DATASOURCE: Applied Innovation Inc. CONTACT: Josie Davidson, Marketing Specialist of Applied Innovation Inc., +1-614-798-2000 Web site: http://www.appliedinnovation.com/ http://www.telecom-next.com/

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