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Product Name: Alcatel-Lucent Optical Management Solutions

Product Description

Alcatel-Lucent Optical Management (formerly Navis® Optical Management) is a portfolio of software products that provides comprehensive and integrated management solutions for optical transport networks and a broad set of features and functions for managing SDH, SONET, DWDM and Service Intelligent™ Optical Networks.

Alcatel-Lucent Optical Management gives your network managers integrated visibility and control of diverse networks and can support both Alcatel-Lucent and multi-vendor networks

Benefits:

• Integrated set of management solutions for optical transport networks

• Delivers features and functions for managing a wide range of optical transport networks

• Supports both Lucent and multi-vendor networks 

Features:

• Enables configuration, activation and support of new network elements

• Helps manage network capacity and maintain resource inventory

• Enables rapid service activation

• Supports end-to-end provisioning

• Provides network and service assurance and restoration

Benefits

Alcatel-Lucent Optical Management provides innovative network management capabilities that can help you differentiate your services.

• Speeds time to revenue through faster service activation and provisioning

• Helps Reduce operational costs through easy to use, automated management solutions

• Helps achieve operational efficiency through seamless network deployment, management and maintenance

• Increases customer satisfaction by improving Quality of Service (QoS)

• Helps create value-added service differentiation 

• Delivers a seamless transition to next-generation networks

Features

Alcatel-Lucent Optical Management helps meet your needs by providing a flexible network management package that supports customization

The engineering role makes your network revenue-ready: 
Configure, activate and support introduction of new network elements
Manage network elements and maintain security
Manage network capacity
Maintain resource inventory

The provisioning role enables fast activation of services to generate revenue: 
Service Activation
End-to-end provisioning
Private Networks

The assurance role helps you maintain revenue and cut operations costs: 
Network Assurance
Service Assurance
Service Restoration
Performance analysis
Service Level Agreement (SLA) verification
Customer Network Management

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 with 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.