Lucent Technologies NavisAccess manual Features, Benefits, Comprehensive visualization tools

NavisAccess™ DSL

Element Management System

The advanced NavisAccess™ DSL EMS graphical user interface (GUI) provides service level views of your Lucent Stinger® DSLAMs, enabling you to centrally monitor and manage the performance of each DSL line in the network.

NavisAccess™ DSL Element Management System (EMS) software accelerates configuration and deployment for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) access and services supporting your Lucent Stinger® family of DSLAM products. NavisAccess™ DSL EMS software simplifies day-to-day operations for DSL access services over Stinger® DSLAM products in your network and provides the foundation for your Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS) functionalities. Scalable to more than 500,000 Stinger® device ports, NavisAccess™ DSL EMS software enables you to monitor the performance of every DSL line in your entire network.

NavisAccess™ DSL EMS is a key component of Lucent’s powerful Navis® iOperations EMS portfolio of products that simplify deployment, configuration and management of Lucent network equipment. Navis® EMS solutions help you make the most of your Lucent network investments, streamline daily operations and offer revenue-enhancing services.

Features

•Integrated and automated network start-up – Includes auto-discovery of network devices, flexible network views and subscriber provisioning

•Advanced real-time performance and fault monitoring –

Centralizes remote management of devices, services and device/service groups, including chassis, software and configuration file change control

•Comprehensive visualization tools

–Enhances secure access to NavisAccess™ DSL EMS features, functions and data through user groups you specify

–Helps you better manage your network via reports based on historical usage performance trends and capacity needs

•Scalability for network growth management

–Supports more than 500,000 ports on a single, logical system and scales to meet the needs of the largest access providers

–Ensures that your future network growth is accommodated by an existing flexible management system

Benefits

•Speeds network start-up time – Deploys rapidly so you can configure, provision and manage DSL devices and services immediately

•Reduces time to resolve network problems - Facilitates quick identification and resolution of fault conditions via advanced fault management capabilities

•Enhances fault and device management – Provides abilities to detect and recover lost traps while maintaining connections to the monitored Stinger®

DSLAM

•Increases end-user satisfaction

–Speeds and facilitates service provisioning process with a simple, easy to use GUI-based DSL port provisioning feature

–Enables you to store frequently used port configurations in templates for quick, accurate provisioning