Alcatel 5620
Network Manager | Rel. 4.0
The Alcatel 5620 Network Manager (NM)* is the cornerstone of the
Alcatel family of network and service management products.
Distinguished by its open, scalable, reliable, multi-access,
multi-technology management capabilities, the industry leading 5620
empowers network operators to add new service offerings without the
overhead of introducing new management systems and retraining staff.
These capabilities also lead to lower overall operating costs, reduced
provisioning times and greater efficiency in the use of the network
infrastructure. Management functions span fault, configuration and
performance management, and accounting and security functions. All of
these functions are provided seamlessly across the network.
Multi-Vendor support
The 5620 open management framework facilitates the integration of
multivendor devices. With the capability to extend management control
across a wider network footprint, network operators can reduce costs and
consolidate their networks as well as meet their contracted service
levels. For example, the 5620 has a proven record of integrating simple
network management protocol (SNMP) and transaction language 1 (TL1)
manageable elements from other vendors.
Virtual private network support
In addition to the inherent network partitioning capabilities of the
5620 (for both virtual backbone networks - VBNs - and virtual switched
networks - VSNs) the 5620 works in conjunction with the Alcatel 5730 VPN
Service Manager (VSM). The VSM enables service providers to offer
multiservice virtual private networks (VPNs) to business customers. The
VSM offers simplified, service-oriented provisioning, web-based customer
assurance and comprehensive performance management for 5620-based
networks.
Network restoration
The 5620 is designed to provide the highest level of service at all
times, even during network failures, minimizing network downtime. The
5620 path and overlay link group feature allows service providers and
enterprise network managers to quickly recover from disaster situations
without complicated processes and delays.
The 5620 allows operators to specify either an automatic or
operator-selected route at the time of service configuration, as well as
alternate route destinations for a particular service or path. In doing
so, the 5620 ensures that critical paths and links are highly protected.
Bandwidth can be reserved on an alternate or secondary route so that
if a failure occurs on a primary route, the 5620 will automatically
switch the connection to the alternate route.
Network simulation
The 5620's Network Simulator can be used to test and model network
resources. The Network Simulator looks and functions like the 5620, but
it allows network operators to simulate and test networks without
attached equipment or bandwidth resources.
The Network Simulator is useful for: training new operators without
affecting live network operations, studying changes to the existing
network, testing upgrade scenarios, simulating network failures and
re-route scenarios, and designing new networks.
Statistics collection
The Alcatel Distributed Statistics Collector is a scalable system
used for collecting path end point information for: permanent virtual
circuits (PVCs), soft PVCs (SPVCs), and switched virtual circuits (SVCs)
(using ATM, frame relay and X.25); trunks and access links (ATM, frame
relay and TDM); Internet protocol (IP) VPNs (IP-VPNs); and X.25
resources. This includes statistics at the physical, frame and cell
switching layers of the network. These statistics provide information
about traffic volume, network congestion and error conditions.
Billing mediation
The Alcatel SVC Billing Mediation is a billing mediation system that
provides the secure collection of SVC call accounting records generated
by ATM, frame relay and X.25 switches and the subsequent processing,
aggregation, formatting, rating and validation of the collected
accounting records. With the introduction of the SVC Billing Mediation
into the Alcatel network management solution, service providers can
begin to offer SVC-based services with an option for usage-based
billing.
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