Alcatel-Lucent 5580 Home Network Manager The Intelligent and Vendor-Independent Digital Home Network Manager
Overview The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 Home Network Manager (HNM) is a centralized solution that solves the challenge of managing digital home networks. It automates the setup and configuration of customer premises equipment (CPE) on a large scale. It also helps you reduce operational expenses, thanks to proactive maintenance, diagnosis and troubleshooting capabilities.
Mastering the Digital Home Revolution The customer home network is becoming the cornerstone of your service delivery chain. Enabling your organization to master the home management challenge will translate into reduced operational costs and increased customer satisfaction. Managing the Full Digital Home Communication services are constantly evolving. Today your focus is on providing triple-play services. Soon, you will move to converged fixed-mobile service offerings.
Overcoming the Digital Home Management Challenge The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM provides extended digital home management capabilities. It supports your fulfillment and assurance processes with advanced automation and troubleshooting capabilities. Based on DSL Forum management standards, the solution allows you to provide multivendor CPE management capability. A Truly Multivendor CPE Management Solution The DSL Forum has finalized TR-069 and associated digital home management standards.
Integrates into Your OSS Organization Your service activation and assurance processes rely on a number of OSS applications. The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM is easy to integrate into your OSS and BSS environment, thanks to its northbound interface, based on WebService and a high-level abstraction. Building streamlined, end-to-end fulfillment and assurance processes allows you to achieve high levels of automation and faster reaction to network events.
How the Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM Works Remote Device Management Based on DSL Forum TR-069 The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM implements the WAN-side management protocol described in the DSL Forum TR-069 standard. TR-069 specifies a protocol stack, connectivity and object model for the management of modems and residential gateways. The TR-069 standard has been extended with TR-111 to allow management of devices behind a NAT residential gateway.
CPE interoperability tests Working with the MotiveSmart verification program, Alcatel-Lucent is engaged in thorough interoperability testing with more than 40 market-leading CPE vendors. Tests check conformance to TR-069 and associated standards and are executed according to PD-128 specifications. Figure 3.
The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM in Action Devices and services involve various management operations, including service provisioning, security, traffic policing and troubleshooting. These need to be controlled by operators, customer support personnel or even by customers themselves. The AlcatelLucent 5580 HNM is a full-fledged management system, operated via graphical user interface.
Managing New Devices on the Fly The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM can manage new device types or releases on the fly. For that purpose, you can simply load the object model of the device in an XML form. The AlcatelLucent 5580 HNM will take over management of the device with no need for further adaptation. Interaction in Your OSS Environment The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM provides a northbound interface to communicate with higher level OSSs.
Alcatel-Lucent Digital Home Care Solution Addressing Comprehensive Digital Home Management Needs Because your operating challenges extend beyond home devices, Alcatel-Lucent has developed the Digital Home Care solution with our partner Motive Inc. It extends the Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM digital home management capabilities to include customer support interactions (through self-care and CSR assisted care tools), along with DSL loop validation, optimization and troubleshooting.
The Alcatel-Lucent Advantage The Alcatel-Lucent 5580 HNM allows you to successfully deploy innovative communication and multimedia services by mastering operational complexity.
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