Telecom Element Management System (totalEMS)

A telecom element management system (EMS) consists of systems and applications that are responsible for managing one or more types of telecommunications network element (NE). EMS has two interfaces: the northbound interface is connected to a Network Management and/or Service Management System depending on the deployment scenario; the southbound interface is used by the EMS to communicate with the devices.

Element Management System's key functionality covers five major areas – Fault Management, Configuration Management, Accounting(Administration) Management, Performance Management and Security Management.

Controlling a network device’s (or element) configuration parameters through a software interface allows network operators to manage network devices from the planning stage through deployment and operations.

CyberVision’s totalEMS is a full-featured, carrier-grade, highly available and scalable Element Management System. totalEMS significantly reduces the amount of time required to introduce new network elements and new services. totalEMS addresses the needs of carrier operators and telecom software communities for managing all the elements on a network in order to optimize performance, reduce operational expenses, and improve quality of service.

Key Features:

• Southbound integration layer provides comprehensive network element monitoring via CORBA, CLI (SSH / TELNET), TL/1, TCP/IP, HTTP, LDAP and SNMP protocols;
• Collects raw fault, performance, and configuration data for managed network elements;
• OSS integration via full featured Northbound interfaces using CORBA, CLI, and SNMP protocols;
• Intuitive Java based GUI;
• Java based client / server model that supports remote network management;
• Multiple security levels for network management and administration;
• Real-time visual representations and processing of alarms;
• Comprehensive performance metrics and performance management functionality.

Based on a flexible client/server architecture, totalEMS scales with your operational needs to maintain high performance levels regardless of the number of network elements. Using standards-based interfaces, totalEMS smoothly integrates with existing Operations Support Systems (OSS) and network management systems (NMS).

Configuration Management: totalEMS features centralized tools for managing network elements. They allow gathering and storing configurations from network devices (this can be done locally or remotely), simplify the configuration of the device, track changes that are made to the configuration, and configure ('provision') circuits or paths through non-switched networks.

Fault management: allows recognizing, isolating, correcting and logging faults that occur in the network and use trend analysis to predict errors increasing network availability. totalEMS Fault Management tools perform alarm collection and storage, and real-time visual representations and processing of alarms; supports alarm correlation (filtering and suppression) to rapidly pinpoint the root cause of failures; automate fault detection, alarm clearing, report generation, and log file display.

Accounting (Administration) management: with the help of specific tools totalEMS is able to gather usage statistics, based on which the users can be billed and usage quota can be enforced. RADIUS, TACACS and DIAMETER are examples of protocols commonly used for accounting. In case of non-billed networks totalEMS’ tools administer the set of authorized users by establishing users, passwords, and permissions, and administer the operations of the equipment such as by performing software backup and synchronization.

Security Management: totalEMS prevents unauthorized network access through tight security mechanisms; supports customizable user and profile based authorization; protects against intrusion from unauthorized users and provides reporting of all login attempts via a security log file. Data security is achieved mainly trough authentication and encryption. Its own authorization is configured using OS and DBMS access control settings.

Performance Management: makes it possible to determine the efficiency of the network. It provides real-time visual monitoring of a wide range of statistics collected from network elements; performs long term trending of key performance indicator (KPI) metrics (throughput, percentage utilization, error rates, response times, etc): periodic metric collection, advanced performance dashboard to view network performance in snapshot mode and trending mode, configurable error counter thresholds, and extensive reporting on all critical performance parameters.

totalEMS offers extensive enhancements for visualizing the state of service subscribers and network elements. The GUI features a comprehensive graphical view of network elements, their interconnecting links, and a tree-based network view showing the overall network topology. Network elements and link status are represented using color coded.

CyberVision’s totalEMS empowers network operators with greater control over network elements and real-time element management, reduces ongoing network operational expenses, and increases the quality of customer service.