INTUITIVE GUI
The Alcatel-Lucent 1300 CMC provides an intuitive GUI for simple network management. An animated network map displays the equipment and enables the operator to navigate easily through all configuration and maintenance functions. For ease of monitoring and management, alarms from all relevant equipment are conveniently displayed in one alarm list; centralized alarm management helps to increase network availability.
Task-oriented forms step the operator through proce- dures and minimize input errors by leading the operator from field to field and restricting input to only the accepted values for a given situation (see Figure 3). More complex operations, such as clearing certain alarms and provisioning routing data, are further supported by task procedures, which combine several task-oriented forms.
SUBSCRIBER AND ROUTING PROVISIONING
The Alcatel-Lucent 1300 CMC also provides co-operative management and service management applications for subscriber provisioning and routing provisioning.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1000 Extended Assistant Routing System (EARS) is a Unix-based database application inte- grated into the Alcatel-Lucent 5020 MGC for flexible and enhanced handling of routing data. This application improves routing data capacity and routing processing performance. It also supports network-wide routing by providing centralized routing for multiple network elements.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1000 EARS service provisioning system (SPS) manages routing of related data in persistent databases via a GUI and XML northbound interface.
In order to optimize the division of revenue, the Alcatel- Lucent 1000 EARS enables rapid adaptation of routing data to changing costs for inter-operator calls.
OSS INTERFACES
The Alcatel-Lucent 1300 CMC provides standardized interfaces for service provisioning and inventory data, service assurance, and routing. It also supports perfor- mance data collection and forwarding to the OSS for the following NEs: Alcatel-Lucent 5020 CSC, Alcatel-Lucent 5020 MGC, Alcatel-Lucent 7510 MG, Alcatel-Lucent 8690 OSP, Acme, and Convedia.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1300 CMC provides inventory data for several nodes (e.g. location, site) and network types. It supports initial download and synchronization func- tions. Software management features are supported centrally. The Alcatel-Lucent 1300 CMC provides open OSS interfaces based on the de-facto standard XML. Alcatel-Lucent’s service provisioning is an open web service, based on Axiom (OEM product) which uses the Alcatel-Lucent 1300 CMC service provisioning interface. Alcatel-Lucent’s inventory management application is based on Cramer (OEM product) which uses the Alcatel- Lucent 1300 CMC inventory interface.
