The true value of the services provided by Stanza Systems is really just beginning to become realized with hardware suppliers and application developers/implementers. Perhaps the value can best be illustrated with examples of the experiences of some of the early implementers of data collection systems that used today’s cellular technologies (both GSM and CDMA). Most, if not all were unfamiliar with the technical nuances and the operational and management requirements of today’s cellular technology and falsely assumed that the wireless network was just another telecommunication “IP cloud”. Also, as typical with most application developers and implementers, they gave very little thought and design consideration to the operational and administrative aspects of a large complex wirelessly connected network.
Consequently, as these developers began to deploy their applications using wireless networks, most experienced a great deal of difficultly with the “IP cloud” and resorted to a more brute force method of working with the wireless network. More importantly, they overlooked the tremendous administrative and operational management burden imposed by the wireless network. Post deployment analysis reveals that such systems generally require the system user to overpay for the wireless transport portion and created an operational system that was virtually impossible to scale at a reasonable cost.
Stanza Systems has seen literally dozens of such system operational issues in the various application areas and most have proven to have grossly underestimated the operational costs of the systems to the point of significantly reducing the overall value to the ultimate user of the application. Stanza Systems has analyzed systems that have transport and management costs range from 5X to 10X over what they were initially estimated and expected to cost. Also, perhaps more damaging is the inability to scale the application to the size required to achieve an economical deployment for the application.
Stanza Systems offers a suite of services designed to significantly reduce typical wireless transport costs and minimize the administrative and management aspects of the system. The value of the services offered by Stanza Systems can mean the difference between deploying a wireless transport network application that is successful and one that ends with unsatisfied users and is considered an abject failure.