Scientific
Applications:
CLEAR & SORRENTO OFFER GRID NETWORK
MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Clear, a global supplier of optical,
broadband and digital network
management software, and Sorrento Networks, a leading supplier of intelligent
optical networking solutions for metro and regional applications, announced
their global partnership to deliver service providers a reliable, proactive
optical network operations management solution by addressing the unique
challenges facing network operations centers (NOCs).
Through this
partnership, Clear's Clearview network management system is
pre-certified for interoperability with Sorrento's TeraManager, a robust
carrier-class element management system providing fault, configuration,
performance and security (FCPS) capabilities for Sorrento's GigaMux DWDM
platform.
By integrating with service providers' inventory systems,
the Clearview and
TeraManager combined solution provides the following
advantages for GigaMux
customers:
- Customer network management --
allowing service
providers' customers to
manage their network through a web-based
application
- Service level management -- enabling service providers
to understand and
prove QoS level to meet service level agreements (SLA)
- Performance management -- reviewing network performance for service
providers and providing error details over periods of time
- Circuit
level customer correlation -- helping service providers quickly
understand how faults affect their customers, allowing them to deliver higher
quality of service (QoS)
- Fault visualization -- allowing service
providers to
visually track the
network at both the circuit and topology levels, increasing
NOC efficiency and
lowering mean time to repair (MTTR)
- Fault
(network) sectionalization - providing service providers the ability
to view every segment between circuits.
These additional
management capabilities present service providers an
opportunity to significantly reduce operational expenses and increase
efficiencies while improving customer retention.
"The days when
service providers are relegated to managing their multi-
vendor, multi-technology networks as a series of independent closed
proprietary networks, each with its own element management system, are coming
to an end," said Tom Richards, CEO of Clear.
"The Clear -- Sorrento
certified NMS-EMS solution allows end-to-end circuit
visibility as well as historical paths and performance tracking, ultimately
reducing the need for higher technician skill sets, while reducing MTTR. This
capability is precisely what carriers have been telling us they need."
The joint solution is fully tested and certified, thereby maximizing
customer confidence and satisfaction before deployment.
"The Sorrento
-- Clear partnership addresses the customer requirements for
end-to-end network performance visibility and service level agreements," said
Demetri Elias, Sorrento's vice president of marketing. "The certified
combination of Clear's Clearview, a vendor independent network management
system, and TeraManager, a carrier-class element management system, is a
winning network management combination."
Sorrento Networks' GigaMux is a metro and regional dense wavelength
division multiplexing (DWDM) platform that transforms any fiber plant into a
high-performance, multi-protocol transmission network with up to 64 times the
transmission capacity. GigaMux is a compact, flexible and cost-effective
system based on a "pay-as-you-grow" architecture. Working in conjunction with
GigaMux is the EPC product family of sub-rate aggregation multiplexers that
increase bandwidth utilization by combining a wide variety of traffic for
transmission over a single wavelength, including ESCON, Fibre Channel, Fast
Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and SONET/SDH channels.
About Clear
Clear is a leading-edge global supplier of multi-vendor optical and digital
network management software for telecommunications providers and enterprises
worldwide. Clear's flagship product, Clearview74, enables service providers to
drive operational efficiencies, decrease downtime, reduce costs, and increase
revenue by delivering superior value to their customers.
Clear delivers value to carriers by enabling them to meet their service
level guarantees. Customer-centric end-to-end circuit visualization, inventory
system integration and performance monitoring features allow users to
instantly isolate faults, identify affected customers and monitor circuits for
degradation, proactive maintenance and service level reporting. Headquartered
in suburban Chicago, Clear markets its products directly and through strategic
partnerships with systems integrators and equipment vendors.
http://www.clear.com
About Sorrento Networks
Sorrento Networks, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a leading
supplier of intelligent optical networking solutions for metro and regional
applications worldwide. Sorrento Networks' products support a wide range of
protocols and network traffic over linear, ring and mesh topologies. Sorrento
Networks' existing customer base and market focus includes carriers in the
telecommunications, cable TV, and utilities markets. The storage area network
(SAN) market is addressed through alliances with SAN system integrators.
http://www.sorrentonet.com
|
