Alcatel-Lucent 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager Extending IP/MPLS Management with Integrated Control Plane Management and Visibility
Overview A significant portion of service failures, provisioning problems and troubleshooting delays can be directly attributed to control plane mis-configuration, undetected routing topology changes and the lack of simple tools that could be used to understand the control plane’s impact on services. These operational inefficiencies lead to a number of business problems for service providers. They make it difficult to provide more consistent service delivery quality.
Solving Control Plane Operational Issues with the 5650 CPAM Service providers offering business critical services and delivery sensitive residential applications such as video can’t afford to let their customers down. Their reputation for consistent service delivery quality and adherence to SLAs is crucial.
Re-Defining IP/MPLS Management While IP/MPLS control plane protocols are crucial to enabling unprecedented cost-effectiveness for rerouting around failures, the majority of today’s management applications from other equipment vendors do not concern themselves with monitoring the operational state of the control plane, providing topology visualization or validating its configuration. The reason for this management gap is historical.
The 5620 SAM allows operators to focus on managing services. It intelligently correlates corresponding network objects and the effect of their status on service delivery. This service management model provides multi-technology and multi-layer service provisioning, service alarm management, service/customer impact analysis, auto-generated service test suite and service mediation (service statistics, alarms, inventory and provisioning) for operation support systems (OSS).
Industry’s First Integrated Service and Control Plane Management Solution The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM revolutionizes IP/MPLS management. It is the industry’s first offthe-shelf equipment vendor solution that enables network operators to overlay Layer 2 and 3 services, MPLS tunnels, and OAM traces on the control plane topology map.
Leveraging the Market Leading Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Portfolio By leveraging best-in-class and proven technologies from the Alcatel-Lucent service router portfolio, the comprehensive 5650 CPAM can efficiently be deployed in a service provider’s environment without introducing significant risk or cost [Figure 4]. The real-time control plane information is provided to the 5650 CPAM by the Alcatel-Lucent 7701 CPAA, which non-intrusively participates in routing plane signaling.
Key Features Proactive Control Plane Surveillance The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM provides a number of mechanisms that monitor control plane health. With proactive control plane surveillance, an alarm generated by the 5650 CPAM alerts operators that the routing plane is undergoing changes that exceed a configurable limit. Operators can navigate to a control plane topology map where all new or deleted IP routes are color coded to help them zero in on the routes affected by the routing updates [Figure 5].
In addition to this intuitive visual topology display, routing architects can trigger various queries that will compute multi-area, end-to-end routes based on real-time routing information. The results are highlighted on the topology maps. For troubleshooting MPLS protocols, the 5650 CPAM provides superimposed MPLS and IP protocol peering. This helps operators detect incomplete MPLS or IP peering that affect the MPLS protocol’s operation.
In short, whether solving provisioning fall-outs, service failures or proactively detecting control plane issues, the Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM offers a range of features that enable routing architects and network operators to link service and control plane management and simplify IP/MPLS operations [Table 2].
Innovative IP/MPLS Management with Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent believes that operational efficiency has a critical impact on a service provider’s success with the deployment of new revenue generating services, such as business virtual private networks (VPNS) and triple play residential services over an IP/MPLS network. For this reason, Alcatel-Lucent continues to develop innovative network management tools and processes.
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