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Connection Management
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Performance Management
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Configuration Management
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Integrated Network Management Broadband Release 4.1
a single NE, thereby reducing the number of logins to the NE(s) to view
active alarms.
Virtual Tributary Bandwidth Management (VTBM) support for OC-12
BLSR systems within TransportNode and AccessNode, enabling users to
provision a VT1.5 connection on a ring using a graphical point-and-click
interface, where the path is auto configured and only the endpoints need to
be specified.
Connection Management for Linear Systems provides support for specific
linear system types, namely; OC-48 linear 1+1, linear 1:1 (single shelf),
linear unprotected (0:1), as well as OC-12 linear 1+1, and linear ADM
chain. A user is able to provision STS connections on a linear system using
a graphical point-and-click interface, and graphically display the
established connections. Service assurance capabilities providing the
ability to gather information about provisioned bandwidth and service
access points are also available for linear systems.
OC-12 TBM Mux Provisioning provides support for STS connection
provisioning on OC-12 TBM mux subtending off an OC-48 NE.
Service Assurance provides information about provisioned connections
within a selected BLSR network entity. For traffic restoration purposes,
service assurance will permit users to obtain a summary of the connections
affected by a link or nodal failure. Service assurance also monitors
bandwidth utilization.
BLSR STS Connection Provisioning offers a graphical point-and-click
interface for provisioning connections on ring systems. Connection
provisioning provides an end-to-end specification and auto selection of
intermediate nodes for each ring system to facilitate user interaction. A
user can provision connections on OC-48 and OC-12 BLSRs to support
matched nodes, bidirectional, unidirectional (OC-48) and extra-traffic
(OC-48) services.
Centralized Performance Monitoring enables early detection of signal
degradation within a network. Centralized performance monitoring
provides error and switch statistics to permit preventive maintenance prior
to service failures.
Partitioned Access support which allows the graphical view of the network
to be divided into several sub-views which may contain any or all of the
PG OC 98-13 Issue 1.2