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Integral Access Operations Management System (OMS™)
Service Automation Through Intelligent Systems
Service Creation
Service Delivery
Service Assurance
OMS Architecture
PurePacketOMS™ Platform Requirements
The Integral Access Operations Management System
The New Public Network is being built now. Integral Access extends the reach of this new network to the customer premise with a Pure-IP, broadband access solution that supports converged voice, video, and data services. Using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and advanced traffic management, our Carrier Class solution delivers end-to-end QoS, while enabling service providers to easily and economically deliver, manage and bill for next generation IP-converged services and applications. Supporting packet, SoftSwitch and circuit switch technologies, Integral Access hardware and software allow our customers to leverage existing infrastructure as hey migrate to the New, IP-converged, Public Network.
PurePacket OMS is an advanced, open and scalable operations management system that intelligently automates the converged IP-service environment. Intuitive point-and-click Wizards enable the rapid creation of richly differentiated IP--service portfolios, end-to-end flow-through provisioning and automated service element activation. Service Level Agreement (SLA) templates define and enforce Class and Quality of Service (CoS/QoS) and accounting policies within the network, while element configuration templates ensure the integrity and consistency of service deployments. Implementing CORBA as the integration layer and XML as an alternative interface method PurePacket OMS ensures seamless interoperation with new or existing Operations and Business Support ystems (OS /BSS). Leveraging sophisticated software modeling services, PurePacket OMS represents a new breed of operations management effortlessly shifting the paradigm from the network to the service layer.
- Advanced Service Creation Platform for the IP/Packet-Based Domain
- Service Fulfillment
- Service Assurance
- Service Billing
- Open, Component-Based Architecture
- Scalable Element and Sub-Network Management
Secure and Flexible Architecture for Automated Service Creation, Delivery and Assurance
- Full Service Life-Cycle Management
- Carrier Class Protection
- Scalable Architecture
- Flexible System Integration
- Interactive Web-Based Client
- Customer Self-Care
- Wizard-Driven Automation
Service Creation
- Automated, error-free service activations
Advanced pre-planning and modeling services
- Richly Differentiated Service Portfolios
Flexible service templates
- Reduced operational burdens
Secure and easy end-user self-care provisioning and health-views
Service Delivery
- Reduced deployment errors
"Point-and-click configuration" templates and bulk download facilities
- Ensured QoS with easy traffic management and engineering
Policy-enforcing SLA templates
- Easy provisioning of end-to-end network connections and services
Intuitive Flow-Thru Provisioning Wizard with modeling intelligence
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Decreased costly truck-rolls
Automated Service Registration & Activation
Service and Revenue Assurance
- Ensured capacity and network resource availability
Capacity pre-planning and modeling facilities
- Distributed alarm and event suppression
Intelligent threshold framework
- Protected, non-service affecting upgrades
Run-time, hitless software and service upgrades
- Flat minutes into fat minutes
Full data accounting on an end-to-end connection basis
Service Automation Through Intelligent Systems
Model-Based
PurePacketOMS™ employs a powerful modeling paradigm to simplify the complexities of the managed environment. Implementing Object-Oriented Design (OOD) methodologies, OMS represents all elements in the network and service environment both physical and logical as software models. OOD modeling offers significant advantages in the form of reusable code and a more readily adaptable application environment. Taking this one step further by modeling the complex relationships and inter-dependencies between these elements the OMS creates a living, breathing software representation of the real-world managed environment. All services provided by OMS leverage this power:
- software downloads are intelligently propagated to their targets from any point in the managed hierarchy;
- complex alarm and event chains can be quickly correlated to the root cause;
- true end-to-end flow-through provisioning can be achieved;
- network and physical layer faults can be easily abstracted to the service layer;
- impacted customers and services quickly identified.
Figure 1. Intelligent modeling enables management at the level of the service.
Policy-Enabled ... Template and Wizard Driven
Templates are utilized to represent all modeled elements within the OMS and when coupled with intuitive Wizards, offer a quick, efficient and consistent means of managing the service environment. Element configuration templates:
- ensure accurate, error-free service deployments as well as advanced pre-planning of network build-outs;
- enable service providers to easily define and map product service requirements to Service Level Agreement (SLA), Traffic Contract and Triple A (Authorization, Authentication and Accounting) policies;
- facilitate the PurePacketOMS™ and platform to operate synergistically dynamically and intelligently controlling network behavior at the level of the service. As a result, a flexible, richly-differentiated service environment with full QoS is delivered.
Service Creation
Bandwidth and capacity are no longer viable as a sole source of differentiation. Today s competitive carriers are seeking to create new network value through flexible and differentiated portfolios of converged services. PurePacketOMS™ uniquely positions our customers to meet the demands of this new world. Intuitive SLA Wizards, advanced pre-planning and service template facilities fully empower innovative, IP-enabled business strategies.
Advanced Pre-Planning
PurePacketOMS™ provides advanced pre-planning facilities that leverage modeling and template services to rapidly create, configure and provision new networks and services. The entire service environment can be fully prepared and modeled in software. These services ensure availability of capacity and resources, and enable automated, error-free network build-out and service turn-up, and rapid time-to-market.
Richly Differentiated Service Portfolios
Wizard-based SLA facilities enable the operator to quickly build a broad and differentiated product portfolio of converged IP services. Creating a new service product is as simple as selecting the SLA, traffic contract and accounting parameter variables and saving it as a template. Whether it be through carrier-class real-time voice, or finely-tuned tiered data services, PurePacketOMS™ is capable of meeting the mass customization needs for the market of one .
Policy-Enforcing Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Policy-enforcing SLA templates ensure service QoS and remove the complexities associated with traffic management and engineering in converged, IP-based service environments. Quantifiable and measurable SLAs serve to build better customer dialog, and in turn, greater customer loyalty.
Service Delivery
Success for today s competitive carrier hinges upon its ability to rapidly deliver and activate new services. PurePacketOMS™ alleviates strained resources by automating the service delivery process.
Line Commissioning and Testing
Remote DS-1 commissioning and testing Wizard ensures the serviceability of the access line without the expense of a truck-roll.
Copy and Paste Configurations
Copy and paste configuration templates and bulk download facilities eliminate the potential for human error and significantly reduce time and costs.
Flow-Thru Provisioning Wizard
An Intuitive Wizard leverages OMS modeling intelligence to provision end-to-end network connections and services based upon flexible, policy-based route selection constraints.
Automated Service Registration and Activation
Capitalizing on advanced pre-planning facilities, newly deployed service elements will automatically register with, and activate through the network reducing costly truck-rolls and speeding market build-out.
Figure 2. Wizard-driven, flow-thru provisioning delivers rapid service activation.
Customer Self-Care
PurePacketOMS™ increases customer touch and reduces costs and burdens by extending self-care provisioning, billing and service health views easily and securely to the end-user.
Service Assurance
Understanding that revenue generation and customer retention depend upon service reliability and availability, Integral Access has architected a converged communications solution that is unmatched in the level of redundancy and protection it delivers. PurePacketOMS™ extends the power of modeling, policy-based SLAs and full protection management to ensure the availability and service quality for critical IP-based voice and data services.
Service Level Management
Intelligent OMS modeling facilities deliver clear visibility into, and management control over, the state and health of the customer s critical services by abstracting and presenting them at the level of service.
Capacity Planning
Pre-planning, modeling, configuration and provisioning facilities provide complete real-time visibility into planned and active network capacity and resource allocations. Critical infrastructure is then available to meet market and service expansions.
Distributed Threshold Framework
The intelligent threshold framework of OMS delivers distributed alarm and event suppression and correlation. Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) costs and burdens are minimized and potential service-affecting incidents are avoided. This flexible framework supports run-time modifications to its threshold and rules-base quickly adapting to changing network and service requirements.
Figure 3. Real-time performance monitoring and advanced, alarm and event threshold framework ensure service quality and availability.
Alarm and Event Visibility and Control
OMS provides the user with visibility and control over alarms and events generated at any level of the network hierarchy (network, domain, node, chassis, slots, modules, interface, IAD, etc.) and provides for a rapid visual indication of alarm roll-up status.
Carrier Class Protection Management
PurePacket OMS ensures a highly resilient, fault-tolerant environment with automatic restoration of failed connections and automated fail-over redundancy for protected services. OMS enables the operator to provision multiple LSPs or cascading, fail-over redundancy and provides automated re-provisioning of failed connections.
Hitless Upgrades
Leveraging OMS template and modeling facilities, software, services and configurations can be deployed network-wide for safe, non-service affecting (run-time) upgrades.
Service Revenue Assurance
Managing from a service level abstraction OMS delivers full data Connection Detail Record (CDR) accounting on end-to-end connection basis. Flat minutes are turned into billable fat minutes.
OMS Architecture
PurePacketOMS™ delivers the industry s first open platform architecture that actually delivers on the promise of rapid integration. With the understanding that no one product will service all fulfillment, assurance and billing needs, PurePacketOMS™ has been optimized for flexibility and adaptability to support process integration and automation within highly complex, heterogeneous environments.
Open, Component-Based Architecture
Utilizing a component-based architecture with CORBA as the open integration point, complexities of the underlying technology are made transparent, producing a highly efficient and integrated process-centric environment. Moreover, this architecture facilitates rapid application extension and system integration with advanced services and third-party applications via flexible software plug-ins.
Flexible System Integration
Flexible and open CORBA and XML interfaces enable seamless integration with existing Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS).
Figure 4. Flexible and open CORBA and XML interfaces for seamless integration with existing Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS).
Scalable Architecture
Fully distributed, CORBA and Java component-based architecture enables processes burden to be distributed across multiple CPUs for optimum scalability and flexibility.
High Availability
Full redundancy for all administrative and functional systems and processes ensures the highest levels of availability and protection. Additionally, OMS provides for on-line back-up and restoration of network and service data.
Service and Application Security
Advanced view management facilitates extremely flexible and secure partitioning of OMS services and applications. Authentication and access control is provided at the application level through Java 2 security. As an additional measure of security PurePacketOMS™ provides full audit trail facilities.
User-Friendly Web-Based Client
An intuitive web-based interface significantly reduces training costs and enables ubiquitous access. Customized operator settings and preferences are maintained in a persistent store.
PurePacketOMS™ Operations Management System (OMS) Platform Requirements
OMS Server Requirements
The following defines the minimum server requirements.
Software Operating System:
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 (SP3 or higher), (or)
- Enterprise 220R Server or higher with Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
(Solaris)
Software:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or higher) or Netscape Communicator 4.5 (or higher)
- Java Development Kit Version 1.2.2 (JDK 1.2.2)
Processor:
- Dedicated Intel Pentium III / 500 MHz or higher (Windows NT) (or)
- Dedicated UltraSPARC-II / 450MHz or higher (Solaris)
Memory:
- 384 Mbytes RAM (512 Mbytes recommended)
Storage:
- Total: 24.244 Gbytes
- 200 Mbytes hard disk space for PurePacketOMS™ Server software install
- 44 Mbytes hard disk space for the JDK 1.2.2
- 24 Gbytes hard disk space recommended for database
Note: The size of the hard disk depends on the size of the network being managed and the amount of historical data being collected.
Miscellaneous:
- TCP/IP networking
- SVGA or higher resolution (800 x 600 - 65 thousand colors)
- Mouse or other pointing device
- CD ROM drive
Recommended Hardware/Peripherals:
- RAID 5 disk array
- Tape Backup
- Redundant power supplies
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
OMS Client Requirements
The following defines the minimum client requirements.
Software Operating System:
- Microsoft Windows 95/98, NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 Professional (or)
- Enterprise 220R Server or higher with Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
(Solaris)
Software:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or higher) or Netscape Communicator 4.5 (or higher)
- Java Runtime Environment Version 1.2.2 (JRE 1.2.2)
Processor:
- Intel Pentium II / 300 MHz or higher (Windows NT) (or)
- UltraSPARC-II / 450 MHz or higher (Solaris)
Memory:
- 64 Mbytes RAM (128 Mbytes recommended)
Storage:
- Total: 41 Mbytes
- 20 Mbytes hard disk space for the PurePacketOMS™ client
- 21 Mbytes hard disk space for the Java JRE 1.2.2
Miscellaneous:
- TCP/IP networking
- SVGA or higher resolution (800 x 600 - 65 thousand colors)
- Mouse or other pointing device
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