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Service Assurance and Provisioning
for IP Networks
Craig B. Ginsberg
Consultant
Internet Services Business Unit
APAC
Agenda
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Definitions
Where are we going with IP?
Why is service assurance so important in today’s world?
The provisioning challenge ...domain, domain, domain
The importance of software in the network
The SA solution, examples and value
Service provisioning challenges, examples and value
Conclusion
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Service Assurance Definitions
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Service Assurance - Maintaining the service
The timely response to and resolution of customer or network
triggered problems, tracking, reporting, managing and taking action
to improve performance for all aspects of a service
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Fault mgmt
Sectionalization
Root cause analysis
Performance monitoring and alerting
Traffic trending
Congestion alerting
Trouble ticketing
Congestion control
Links to provisioning
Resulting in a high Quality of Service
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Service Provisioning
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Service Provisioning - Installing the service
The flow through process involved in the installation, configuration
and activation of a service across multiple technologies and
equipment providers to provide an end-to-end service. This includes
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Order Management
Workflow Management
Multi-domain activation
Multi-technology activation
Resulting in a fully automated provisioning process
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Reality Check - the IP world
• The world has changed forever
• Traditional methods of managing and provisioning networks
no longer apply
• Best effort is NOT good enough
• QoS is now the most important issue
…We need to….
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Provision it
Manage it
Measure it
Bill for it
• The result … ‘Service Level Agreement’
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Fueling unparalleled customer demand
2.5
250
2.0
Cable
1.5
Wireless
1.0
134
Wireline
0.5
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1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
1998
2018
1994
1998
2001
A century to install the world’s first billion phone lines;
in 10 years this will nearly triple to 2.8 billion total phone lines.
Today, > 200 million wireless subscribers; by 2008, this will grow 500% to
over 1 billion wireless communications appliances!
Over 500 million existing mailboxes (voice & email)
Source: Office of Lucent CTO/IDC
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Users are Driving Network Change
Relative
Traffic
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200
Transition
150
Voice
&
100
Convergence
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Data
over
Circuits
Time
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Voice
over
Packets
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Accelerated by disruptive technologies
0.10µ
10B
1B
0.13µ
“5ESS”
Circuit Switch
0.18µ
Probable limit
for silicon
0.25µ
100M
Software key to
future networks
Capacity/Cost
Transistors per Chip
0.07µ
ATM
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IP
PC
Future networks will
include packet;
dominant protocols will
be IP and ATM
Cellular Phone
10M
1995
2000
2005
2010
Years
1000
Single-fiber capacity (Gbit/sec)
Increase over Analog Cellular
Voice Call Carrying Capacity
1000
100
10
1
WDM
Systems
100
10
1.5m WDM
1
1.3/1.5m
1.3m
0.1
0.8m Wavelength
Advances in silicon, optics,
wireless and software will
support a
250-fold increase in network
capacity by 2005
0.01
1995
2000
2005
2010
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
Source: Office of Lucent CTO
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Traditional Networks
“Single networks” that
rely on circuit switched
technologies over TDM
infrastructure
Switch Network
Physical Network
Inter-Office Network
Access Network
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Today's Networks
“Networks of
Networks” that Layer
the Technologies and
Services.
Switch Network
IP Services
Each technology can be
supplied by multiple
vendors each needing
provisioning and
management
ATM Network
DWDM/SDH Network
Physical Network
Inter-Office Network
Access Network
Multi-Vendor: Equipment, Facilities; Logical
Multi-Managed:
components
Multi-Service: POTS, ISDN, Data Services, Frame
Relay, VTOA, VOIP
Multi-Technology: DWDM, ADSL, TDMA, CDMA
SONET, SDH,ATM, IP, Gig-E
Global Management Centers
Legacy Systems
Carrier Interfaces
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Service Assurance Challenges
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Support Management across multiple vendors and technologies
Need to be able to measure and act pro-actively using thresholds
Best effort is NOT good enough
…….QoS becomes much more important !
QoS now relates to
• Network throughput/latency
• Congestion
• CPU utilization
• The challenge is to meet QoS NOT by Over Engineering BUT by
Pro-active management
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Industry direction is challenging operators
Next
Generation
Networks
Industry
Drivers
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High Speed Access
Data Equipment Proliferation
Architectural Convergence
Architectural Transition
One Stop Service Shopping
Service Differentiation
QoS Based Services
Service Level Agreements
Carrier InterNetworking
Network Partitioning
Service
Provider
Directions
Management
and
Operations
Challenges
Operations
Challenges
• InterDomain & Multi-Vendor Management
• “Monitorable” QoS & Customer Service Mgmt.
• Convergent Solutions for Multiple traffic types
• Single seat integration
• Automated Service restoration
• Centralized and distributed provisioning,
• Plus: Reduce Cost/Intervals
• Improve Quality
•Correlation of many alarms (very important)
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Importance of software
Resulting Impact
Cost of operations
Market Forces are
driving need for
assurance of new
applications and
technology
Complexity
• Network complexity increases with implementation of new technology & services
• Life cycle costs are shifting from initial investment to cost of operations
SOFTWARE IS KEY TO “HARNESSING THE POWER & COMPLEXITY OF THE NETWORK”
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Software will differentiate competitive networks
Software is critical to effective management of resulting operations environments
Software is the catalyst for achieving “break-through” improvements in operations
Software is critical to provisioning across multiple domains and technologies
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The Shewhart P-D-C-A Quality Cycle
1-Plan
4-Act
3-Check
2-Do
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Service Assurance software can help
Network
Complexity
Business
• Reduce Mean Time To Repair
• Protect and Maximize Revenue
• Squeeze the most out of existing
investment
Service
• Detect & Sectionalize Network Troubles
–Network Interconnect
–Congestion
–Logical and Physical Errors
• Allow Diverse Equipment & Technologies
• Correlate many alarms
Assurance
Centralization &
Consolidation
Customer
• Maximize Bandwidth Available
• Enable Appropriate QoS
• Monitor & Report Service Results
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Improve Operation Efficiency
Integrate Operations
Drive Quality Improvements
Optimize Staff, Training
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Suggested Assurance Solution
Performance Management
Logical
Faults
Performance
analysis engine
Circuit/
SS#7
GSM
NMS/EMS
Fault Management
Trouble
Ticketing
BMS
SMS
Fault
Management
NMS
Reporting
Packet
UMTS
NMS/EMS
Multi-Access
NMS/EMS
Backbone
NMS/EMS
Application
Servers
WDS
GSM
Network
BTS
UMTS
Network
NodeB
Multi-Access
Network
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Backbone
Network
EMS
WWW
email
Internet
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Network Management - Fault processing external
Note:
Main
Offer
1
Related
Product
Customer Care System
2
Customer calls into
CSC with fault
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Assign Truck/
Technician
3
Trouble
Ticket
SMS
6
4
5
NMS
Fault
Management
SNMP
CORBA
CORBA
CORBA
ASCII
ASCII
ASCII
CORBA
SNMP
CORBA
OMC
-U
OMC-CS
OMC-PS
eMRS
SHLR
/AUC
eCS
WaveStar
NMS
NavisXtend
Fault Server
Light
Ship
Cajun
View
Navis
Access
FMS
EMS
IPSS
5000
Cajun
NodeB
RNC
FMS
EMS
WaveStar
SNMS
UMSC
UTRAN
Light
Ship
TAG
APX8000
MMRS
(EMG)
WAG
(FMS/
TPU)
CFS
(LSS)
SGSN
(FMS/
TPU)
GGSN
(IPSS
5000)
UMTS Core Network
OLS
400G
WIN Network
ITM-SC
AM 1
Plus
ADM
16/1
SDH/Optical
Network
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GX550
PSAX
NX64000
NX32000
IP Core Network
SNMP
Navis
RADIUS
QIP
Personal
Portal
WAP
Gateway
DNS/
DHCP
Other
Application
Server
Email
Server
ECom
Server
LSMS
/LMF
VAS Network
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Network Management - Fault processing external
Note:
Main
Offer
Related
Product
Customer Care System
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2
7
Assign Truck/
Technician
3
Trouble
Ticket
SMS
6
4
5
NMS
Fault
Management
CORBA
(??/??)
CORBA
(??/??)
CORBA
(??/??)
ASCII
(Now)
ASCII
(??/??)
ASCII
(??/??)
CORBA
(05/01)
SNMP
(Now)
CORBA
(Now)
SNMP
(Now)
OMC
-U
OMC-CS
OMC-PS
eMRS
SHLR
/AUC
eCS
WaveStar
NMS
NavisXtend
Fault Server
Light
Ship
Cajun
View
Navis
Access
FMS
EMS
IPSS
5000
Cajun
NodeB
RNC
FMS
EMS
WaveStar
SNMS
UMSC
UTRAN
Light
Ship
TAG
APX8000
MMRS
(EMG)
WAG
(FMS/
TPU)
CFS
(LSS)
SGSN
(FMS/
TPU)
GGSN
(IPSS
5000)
UMTS Core Network
OLS
400G
ITM-SC
AM 1
Plus
GX550
PSAX
NX64000
NX32000
SNMP
(??/??)
Navis
RADIUS
QIP
Personal
Portal
WAP
Gateway
DNS/
DHCP
Other
Application
Server
Email
Server
ECom
Server
LSMS
/LMF
ADM
16/1
WIN Network
SDH/Optical
Network
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IP Core Network
VAS Network
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Network Management - Fault processing internal
Note:
Main
Offer
Related
Product
Customer Care System
Assign Truck/
Technician
F
Trouble
Ticket
SMS
D
E
C
Node fails in
the network
A
Interface to NOC
technical staff
C1
Fault
Management
NMS
B
OMC
-U
NodeB
RNC
OMC-CS
OMC-PS
Navis
Access
FMS
EMS
FMS
EMS
SHLR
/AUC
eCS
WaveStar
NMS
TAG
APX8000
MMRS
(EMG)
WAG
(FMS/
TPU)
CFS
(LSS)
SGSN
(FMS/
TPU)
Cajun
View
iNAVIS
Light
Ship
WaveStar
SNMS
UMSC
UTRAN
eMRS
GGSN
(IPSS
5000)
UMTS Core Network
OLS
400G
ITM-SC
AM 1
Plus
GX550
PSAX
IPSS
5000
Navis
RADIUS
QIP
Personal
Portal
WAP
Gateway
DNS/
DHCP
Other
Application
Server
Cajun
CBX500
Email
Server
ECom
Server
LSMS
/LMF
ADM
16/1
WIN Network
SDH/Optical
Network
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IP Core Network
VAS Network
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Network Management - Event Correlation
Note:
Main
Offer
SMS
Performance Analysis
Engine
Circuit/
SS#7
OMC
-U
NodeB
RNC
OMC-PS
Navis
Access
FMS
EMS
Fault
Management
eMRS
SHLR
/AUC
eCS
Logical Faults
WaveStar
NMS
TAG
APX8000
MMRS
(EMG)
WAG
(FMS/
TPU)
CFS
(LSS)
SGSN
(FMS/
TPU)
IP Mediation
Cajun
View
iNAVIS
Light
Ship
WaveStar
SNMS
UMSC
UTRAN
NMS
Packet
OMC-CS
FMS
EMS
Assign Truck/
Technician
Trouble Ticket
Reporting
Related
Product
GGSN
(IPSS
5000)
UMTS Core Network
OLS
400G
ITM-SC
AM 1
Plus
GX550
PSAX
IPSS
5000
Navis
RADIUS
QIP
Personal
Portal
WAP
Gateway
DNS/
DHCP
Other
Application
Server
Cajun
CBX500
Email
Server
ECom
Server
LSMS
/LMF
ADM
16/1
WIN Network
SDH/Optical
Network
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IP Core Network
VAS Network
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Event Correlation
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The Power of Performance & Fault
Assign Truck/
Technician
Performance Analysis
Engine
Circuit/
SS#7
Packet
Trouble
Ticketing
SMS
NMS
Fault
Management
Logical Faults
GSM
NMS/EMS
Backbone
NMS/EMS
EMS
Tickets go on sale
GSM
Network
BTS
Core MSN
Network
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The Power of Performance & Fault
Assign Truck/
Technician
Trouble
Ticketing
Performance Analysis
Engine
Circuit/
SS#7
Packet
GSM
NMS/EMS
SMS
NMS
Fault
Management
Logical Faults
Silent Alarms
generated from
radio give away
GSM
Network
BTS
Backbone
NMS/EMS
EMS
Core MSN
Network
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Value to Customers
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Meet future Network Management needs as carriers evolve to
Multiple Service Networks
Network troubles are quickly identified and corrected
Proactive resolution of faults
Manage complex networks comprised of diverse technologies
Scalable from a few to thousands of Network Elements
Easy to use, configure and flexible
Provide maximum system availability
Optimize reliability and capacity of multi-service network
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Service Provisioning
Service Provisioning
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The challenges service providers are facing in the management of
their networks arise from at least two different sources: the need to
weave a number of technologies into a seamless network and the
need to integrate a multiplicity of systems required managing the
technologies.
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True Inter-Domain Configuration Management will enable service
providers to perform flow through end to end provisioning across all
technologies including: •
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PDH
SDH
DWDM
SONET
ATM/FR
xDSL
IP.
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Requirements
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Industry is at a cross road
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Operators moving from circuit switch technology to packet
switched………..plus…….
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Rolling out a terrestrial Multi-service networks to support
• WAP, UMTS, Location based services, VAS
• Intranet/Extranet services
• Traditional voice/fax, Data services
• IP, VoIP,VoATM
• IN services, Video
• Data
• etc…etc…etc
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Requirements Cont
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Ability to support designing, activating, and managing network
services across their multivendor, multi-class, and multi-technologies
communication networks.
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Single Point Of Data Entry, Automated Provisioning, Web Based,
Published CORBA API.
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Flow-through of network & service orders from order management
System to Domain Management System.
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Integrated end-to-end service design and activation.
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Support end-to-end service design view and logical hierarchy of
facilities supporting the services.
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What do we mean ?
Examples:
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3G IP data service on UMTS
IP data service via WAP or intranet/extranet
SDH and ATM
Complete picture end-to-end software and hardware
technologies - data service PVC across multiple domains
and technologies
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Integrated Customer Care and Service Provisioning
Note:
Main
Offer
Customer Care System
cCare
Inventory
Manager
1
Related
Product
3
CORBA API
Order Management
2
Circuit
Packet
Multi-domain
Provisioning
Engine
4
2a
OMC
Lucent
OMC-CS
OMC-PS
eSM
SHLR
(DNCP)
WaveStar
NMS
Navis
RADIUS
i-Navis
WAP
Gateway
(i-Provision)
QIP
GGSN
(IPSS
5000)
2G
Network
UMSC
TAG
APX8000
MMRS
(EMG)
WAG
(FMS/
TPU)
CFS
(LSS)
SGSN
(FMS/
TPU)
MAPS
GGSN
(IPSS
5000)
UMTS Core Network
WaveStar
SNMS
ITM-SC
OLS
400G
AM 1 ADM
Plus 16/1
IPSS
5000
GX550
NX64K
NX32K
PSAX
WIN Network
SDH/Optical
Network
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Personal
Portal
Xedia
AP1000
Email
Server
DNS/
DHCP
Other
Application
Server
ECom
Server
LSMS
/LMF
Stinger
IP Core Network
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Scenario I
Service Provisioning Flow - GSM to UMTS
cCare
Customer
Customer Care System
1
Order Manager
Circuit
2
3
Packet
4
2G
Switch
6
7
Billing
5
eSM
SHLR
/AUC
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Scenario II
Service Provisioning Flow - IP via WAP/Intranet/Extranet
cCare
Customer
Customer Care System
1
Order Manager
WAP
2a
Circuit
Packet
3
Billing
2b
RADIUS
LDAP
2
eSM
SHLR
/AUC
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Scenario III
Service Provisioning Flow - ATM PVC over SDH/DWDM
cCare
Customer
Customer Care System
1
14
Order Manager
Circuit
Packet
Billing
5
Installation
13
2
4
6
12
Testing
3
Inventory
11
Multi-domain
Provisioning
8
Engineering Center
7
Work Center
10
9
ATM NE
SDH NE
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ATM PVC over SDH/DWDM Provisioning
SHLR
Web
front end
SCP
SS7
CRM
Internet
Other
Data Carrier
PSTN
Order Manager
Multi-domain
Provisioning
Billing
Metro
Core
Node
Border
Gateway
Lucent
Softswitch
Inventory
PSAX
Core
Node
SDH-NMS
Voice
Gateway
ATM-EMS
IPSS
5000
CBX500
2G
BSC/MSC
Leased
Backbone
CX550
Core
Node
SDH EMS
SDH
network
provisioned
SGSN
WS
ADM 16/4
WS
ADM 4/1
WS
ADM 4/1
Metro
Access
Ring
Stinger
NodeB
BTS
SS7
WAG
Cajun
WS
ADM 16/4
Wireline
2G
Access
Hub Node
WS
AM-4/1
Metro
Access
Ring
WS
AM-4/1
Access
Hub Node
3G
Xedia
Cajun
TAG
PSTN
Edge Node
WS
ADM 16/4
IAD
CFS
CGF
RNC
PSAX
GGSN
Metro
Core
Network
Edge
Node
WS
AM-4/1
MMRS
ATM
network
provisioned
RNC
CBX500
Xedia
End-to-end
PVC’s
provisioned
Cajun
PSAX
Stinger
IAD
BTS
NodeB
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Business Value
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Cost savings due to reduction in manual work Leased Line, Frame
Relay Services Provisioning, xDSL subscription.
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Additional revenue due to earlier turn-up of service
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Cost savings due to reduction in manual work in Facility Design and
Implementation
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Cost savings due to reduction in manual work in ATM-over-SONET
Infrastructure Provisioning
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Higher customer satisfaction leading to increased market share and
reduction of churn
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Ability to meet market demand ahead of competitors
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Reduction in training costs
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Customer value
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A flow-through provisioning architecture integrating ATM, SONET, SDH,
IP and xDSL technology domains.
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Mechanization of network and service design and inventory
management tasks leading to large savings in operations costs
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Revenue stream for newly-provisioned services begins sooner because
of a faster turn-up (provision takes minutes verses weeks).
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Increase in market share due to
 Increasing customer satisfaction resulting in retention and
increased orders from existing customers.
 Ability to meet market demand ahead of competitors
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Reduces training and operations costs by hiding complexity from the
user.
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Conclusion
• Biggest OSS challenge to carriers is managing across
multiple technologies and domains
• Provisioning must be able to support new technologies from
a common Order Management and Provisioning engine
• The management of networks can no longer be based on
traditional best effort methods
• Service assurance is about combining fault and performance
management.
• Quality of Service is now the most important issue in the IP
world
• You can only guarantee Service Levels if you can proactively
manage your QoS through Provisioning and Service
Assurance
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