Summary Of Features - Nortel INM 4.1 Release Note

Summary of Features

The new features offered by the Integrated Network Management Broadband
Release 4.1 applications are summarized below.
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INM Release 4.1 Release Notes
Protection Status and Control GUI and Contract Interfaces (CI) which
provide GUI enhancements to support protection status display and
protection control for linear systems (1:1, 1+1, 1:N), 2 fiber-ring systems
(OC-12 and OC-48 BLSR), as well as OC-192 4-fiber rings. Protection
control will provide the ability to issue high speed protection control and
lockout commands from the Graphical Network Browser. This feature will
also provide the open, standards-based Contract Interfaces using the
CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) to perform high speed
protection switch control on the topologies mentioned above.
Linear and 1:N Traffic Display which provide GUI enhancements to
support the traffic display for linear systems (1:1, 1+1, 1:N).
OC48 Release 14 support (Connection Management Interface
Enhancements) which provide enhancements to the Connection
Management Building Block (CMBB) Contract Interface (CI) to support
connection provisioning of concatenated STS-3c (Uni/Bi) and STS-12c
(Uni/Bi) connections on OC-48 BLSR systems. Enhancements to
termination inventory and information services are also provided in order
to support OC-3 tributary cards on OC-48 Ring (BLSR) systems.
Drop and Continue on Protection (DCP) GUI and Contract Interface
provides support for the new DCP provisioning scheme to be used when
provisioning uni-directional or bi-directional matched node connections
on OC-12 TBM and OC-48 BLSR systems. Enhancements to the GUI
support the selection of either the Drop and Continue on Working (DCW)
or the DCP provisioning scheme for creating bi-directional or
uni-directional matched node connections. As well, the editing of an
existing uni-directional or bi-directional matched node connection from
the DCW to the DCP scheme and vice versa is supported. Enhancements
to the Connection Management Building Block (CMBB) Contract
Interface (CI) provide the same DCP provisioning and editing capabilities
through the open, standards based CI using the CORBA Interface
Definition Language (IDL).
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