Solving Management Challenges Facing Large, Diverse Networks

Large organizations are typically managing large, diverse networks. The size and sophistication of these networks continues to grow with the universal spread of technology. In addition to corporate networks managed by IT departments, equipment manufacturers and service providers need element and network management software in order to build and manage multi-vendor systems.

Integrated element management software provides an integrated view of element operations in a format that can be monitored and, with appropriate permissions, modified by system administration, finance, manufacture or telecommunications.Software such as NOCVue.com makes it cost effective and easy to integrate monitoring views from different vendors to provide real-time, graphic views available to any internet-enabled monitor.

In telecommunications, soft switches and smart electricity meters, media gateways and wireless broadband providers are examples of specialized automated tasks. Digital cross-connect systems and synchronous optical network are similar systems. In each case, operations are broken down into tasks that can be individually monitored to troubleshoot and modify operations. Software such as NOCVue’s QuickChassis allows equipment manufacturers and service providers to bundle chassis views of all devices, making it easy for end-users to monitor element status across multivendor networks.

In the case of global networks, the magnitude of software and hardware can be daunting. Whether telecommunications, commerce, administration or even social media, thousands of different tasks must be managedand monitored single dashboard. With Integrated Network Management Software the following operations can be monitored and managed across equipment from different vendors:

• Fault management: Alarm generation, event tracking and analysis
• Configuration management: Commissioning, provisioning, timing and protection
• Accounting management: Collection of data used in enforcement of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Performance management: Monitoring and reporting service performance and Quality of Service(QoS) and SLA management
• Security management: Role-based logging-in, authorization and access control

These capabilities can be provided by individual equipment manufacturers or installed on existing multi-vendor networks by service providers or IT departments. For more information, visit NOCue.com.