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Product Name: Alcatel-Lucent 1354 SN Submarine Management System (SMS)

Product Description

The Alcatel-Lucent 1354 SN is the network management solution for submarine customers, responsible for end-to-end configuration and monitoring submarine WDM optical paths. The user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) provides graphical representation of the system and the managed elements, and assists the operator with specific procedures to equalize the quality of the WDM channels. 

The 1354 SN allows you to take proactive steps to prevent problems before they occur, and provides the necessary tools to diagnose and repair the problems that do occur, thus improving the Quality of Service (QoS) you can offer your customers. The 1354 SN has the scalability to grow with your network -- both in size and technology -- and the flexibility to be customized to your organization's structure.

Benefits

Enhances usage of submarine network resources
Enhances submarine network reliability and availability
Facilitates and speeds-up network maintenance
Monitors the Quality of Service

Features

Fault management to supervise submarine WDM networks
Line supervision of the overall cable and line element (repeaters, branching units, submarine line terminal equipment)
Line fault location after detection of transmission failure
Performance monitoring
Automatic pre-emphasis adjustment to equalize the quality of the WDM channels
Power control system to assist operator in ramping up and shutting down the power feeding fo the cable system
Security policy customized according customer organization
Upstream external interfaces for integration with umbrella systems and downstream interface for managing EMS from others suppliers
High availability to provide the service continuity of the 1354 SN
Distribution for scalability

Documents

System (SMS) is the Alcatel network management solution for submarine customers. The SMS allows corrective preventive actions to be carried out during system life improving then the Quality of Service (QoS). The SMS has the ability to evolve with traffic and technology and is adapted to customer’s organization.

Efficient and cost-effective operation in transport Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology based networks entails a need for centralized and efficient network operation. Network Management facilitates the operation and maintenance of ever growing networks in terms of size and complexity by offering facilities which:

- Enhance usage of network resources;

- Enhance network reliability and availability;

- Facilitate and speed-up network maintenance;

- Monitor the Quality of Service (QoS).

The Submarine Management System

The SMS is the result of a seamless integration between the 1353SH and the 1354SN applications. The 1353SH is responsible for Network Element (NE) installation, configuration and maintenance in the physical submarine transmission network. The 1354SN is responsible for end-to-end configuration and monitoring of submarine WDM optical paths. The SMS manages the submarine networks composed of the following NEs:

- Tera10, OALW40, OALW16 Submarine Line Terminal Equipment (SLTE);

- Power Feeding Equipment (PFE);

- Submerged elements: repeaters, Tilt Equalizer unit (TEQ), WDM Branching Unit (BU).

The SMS can be seamlessly integrated with Alcatel terrestrial network management systems (co-hosting of functional and presentation parts). The SMS can also be integrated in a multi-vendor architecture.

The SMS provides a user-friendly GUI based on animated graphical views of the system and of the managed elements. The views are dynamic. The color of an associated icon on a map or the presence of a symbol within an icon reflects the status of each item. Navigation facility between SMS windows is offered by means of edit or popup menus. Performance information can be retrieved using filtering criteria and displayed in tabular or graphical format. Both Zero Installation Client (ZIC) concept and Java based GUI over the Internet are supported.

Once a NE is declared and configured, the operator can display its representation in the SMS. A physical representation is available, tallying with the real NE. Zooming into detailed equipment views is possible. Functional views are also available such as Transmission view for an SLTE, which indicates tributaries carrying traffic and protection tributaries.

Once the SMS is tailored and dimensioned to customer requirements (configuration phase), a geographical view of the network is available containing icons related to landing stations, BUs and sub-segments. From this view, several other views can be accessed:

- Network Powering view;

- WDM view;

- Optical Path view;

- Line Equipment view;

- Transmission view.

All generic fault management facilities such as the alarm acquisition, alarm counter management, current problem list management, alarm log management are available to supervise submarine WDM networks.

Line supervision activity can be carried out, for a list of Line Elements (LE), on demand or periodically. In the latter case, a process called Routine Maintenance (RM) is configured to request measurements of a list of LE with a defined periodicity. A detailed report is provided at the end of the RM. In both cases, LE measurements are displayed in real time and stored in a database to be consulted later (history). Repeater power settings can be adjusted after a cable repair or during system operation and maintenance.

After detection of a transmission fault or on operator request, a fault location process is launched. Measurements collected during a fault location are stored in a database. A detailed diagnosis is provided at the end of the process and the report is stored. It includes the location and kind of defect found:

- Localization of any transmission fault within a repeater section.

- Discrimination of cable faults, fiber faults, optical amplifier faults and transmission faults.

Forward Error Correction (FEC) and SDH B1 counters can be periodically (every 15 minutes and 24 hours) collected by the SMS at the WDM channel level. A 1-day and 30-day Quality factor (Q factor), based on 24 hours FEC counter processing are provided to the operator for each selected WDM channel. Analog measurements, available on NE such as SLTE and PFE, can also be collected on operator request or periodically (every 15 minutes and 24 hours). Such information (FEC, Q factor and analog measurements) is stored in a database and can be consulted at any time by the user.

Semi-Automatic Pre-emphasis Adjustment (APA)

The SMS provides facilities to assist the operator with this specific procedure dedicated to equalize the quality of the WDM channels.

The powering of a submarine WDM network is an operation which has to be carefully carried out. So the SMS is able to assist the operator in ramping up or shutting down the power feeding of the cable system and configuring the BUs.

To provide the service continuity of the network management system, the SMS supports local and geographical High Availability facility based on software mechanism or fault tolerant platforms.

The availability of access control features in the SMS enables the setting up of a security policy customized according to the cable operator organization, so that each operator only uses the functions and resources that are allowed and useful for its profile.

In order to interface to external Operating Systems (OS), supplied by Alcatel or other vendors, external interfaces were developed. These interfaces are implemented withn Q3 standard and, with the aim of increasing the openness of the interface, also through CORBA access (standard specified by the Object Management Group) via TCP/IP. These interfaces are compliant with TMF and ITU standards.

- Hardware components: the SMS is available on Hewlett-Packard’s workstation or servers, and on PC (GUI only);

- Software components: the SMS is built on a generic software platform. The software platform consists of both Alcatel software modules and first rank international companies.

The SMS is supplied on several tens of projects such as Sea-Me-We3, Gemini, Japan-US, Southern Cross and Flag projects.

Company Details

Formed from the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent combines two entities that share a common lineage that can be traced back to 1986, when Alcatel’s parent company, CGE (la Compagnie Générale d’Electricité), acquired ITT’s... more