Service Assurance and Keeping Up with the Demand to Deliver New Services - IPTV, data, VoIP, Wireless

Friday, April 8, 2011 by Eden Mondanaro
Service Providers are constantly looking for ways to speed delivery to market without compromising quality. Automation is the only way to effectively accomplish this task. Manual solutions and CLI are labor intensive and error prone which results in lost revenue and customer dissatisfaction.

A single system to automate repeatable processes not only makes the fulfillment process significantly quicker but also eliminates costly errors. But it can't stop there. Once services are deployed, customers frequently need to change their service. For example a customer may require more bandwidth, or a different configuration. Redcell allows service providers to react quickly and efficiently to these customer needs. The result is delivering services to the end user faster, and with higher level of quality. 

Let's take a look at a graphical representation of the Redcell solution for service fulfillment:

Redcell's Service Assurance Solution delivers powerful and flexible tools for service providers to monitor the health of their network and services to ensure the best customer experience.

Here are some key features of Redcell for Service Fulfillment:
  • Common interface across multiple services 
  • Track associations between services & customers/subscribers or network resources through the CMDB 
  • Unified Service Provisioning 
  • Transaction Model 
  • Auditing of All Service Transactions 
  • Service Templates 
  • Service Preview 
  • Integration with Pools 
  • Service Quick Views 
  • Tools to extend existing services or model & rapidly deploy new services 
More Technical Notes:

Service Assurance 
  • Proactive device/service health monitoring 
  • Service Diagnostics (OA&M) 
  • Data Collection and associated formulas and metrics for collected data 
  • Performance Dashboards 
  • Prepackaged Monitors 
Core/Aggregation Network 
Integrated Service 
Edge/CPE Network 
  • NNI Service 
  • UNI Service 
  • CPE Configuration, VLANs 
Core MPLS 
  • MPLS Traffic Engineered LSPs (RSVP - TE) / TE Tunnels & Named Paths 
 
According to The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, global mobile data traffic will increase 26-fold between 2010 and 2015. This will mean even more challenges for all tiers of Service Providers - and the only way to get there and succeed will mean having the best software.

Managing LTE (Long Term Evolution) to Delivery High Quality Mobile Broadband at the Lowest Cost

Friday, December 10, 2010 by Eden Mondanaro
Long Term Evolution (LTE) provides the bandwidth necessary to deliver advanced and compelling services. It will no longer be good enough to maintain the quality of the network. Service providers must differentiate themselves by monitoring the user experience or quality of experience. Mobile providers face a number of challenges with technologies and standards at and beyond 3GPP / LTE

Another challenge facing mobile providers will be the requirement of maintaining a hybrid environment for years to come. TDM and the more traditional telco technologies will not just go away with the advent of 3GPP / LTE. The typical mobile operator will need to maintain a TDM / Ethernet environment through several device lifecycles. The interface / integration requirements for these multi-vendor platforms will be a challenge.

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The Dorado Software Carrier Ethernet Solution

At Dorado Software, we have a solution to manage multi-vendor, Long Term Evolution: We call it Redcell. Here is what the Carrier Ethernet Services component of Redcell from Dorado Software covers:

Core/Aggregated
MPLS L2 E-line Ckts (P2P)
MPLS L2 E-LAN (Multipoint)
MPLS L3 E-LAN/E-Tree/IPVPNs

Integrated
Carrier Ethernet end-to-end

Core MPLS
MPLS Traffic Engineering LSPs (RSVP_TE)
TE Tunnel & Named Paths
 
Edge/CPE
Uni-service
NNI Service
CPE COnfics, VLANs
 
Service Examples
Mobile backhaul
IPTV
VoIP
VOD
Broadband
Cable

For your more information or your personal reading pleasure, here is a link to a free white paper (courtesy of Dorado Software) titled, "The Impact of Carrier Ethernet on Service Providers."





Managing The Evolution of LTE

Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Eden Mondanaro
GOAL: Manage LTE to Delivery High Quality Mobile Broadband at the Lowest Cost

Long Term Evolution (LTE) provides the bandwidth necessary to deliver advanced and compelling services. It will no longer be good enough to maintain the quality of the network. Service providers must differentiate themselves by monitoring the user experience or quality of experience. Mobile providers face a number of challenges with technologies and standards at and beyond 3GPP / LTE. From new, emerging technology to increasing scale and growth, 3GPP / LTE promises to challenge mobile providers in a variety of disciplines.
 
Scaling will be a factor as well. The introduction of new services and features that come as a result of LTE deployment will drive an increase in individual mobile adoption rates. While per-user usage will also increase, resulting in an increased per-user revenue growth, individual mobile adoption and usage will expand as well. This will result in an increased need to quickly and smoothly scale the configuration, deployment and provisioning of all parts of the network from devices to gateways.

Another challenge facing mobile providers will be the requirement of maintaining a hybrid environment for years to come. TDM and the more traditional telco technologies will not just go away with the advent of 3GPP / LTE. The typical mobile operator will need to maintain a TDM / Ethernet environment through several device lifecycles. The interface / integration requirements for these hybrid platforms will be a challenge.
 
The Long Term Evolution (LTE) Solution from Dorado Software

Dorado Software's Redcell Suite of Resource Management, Service Management, Fulfillment and Assurance products offers Service Providers a true end-to-end solution for their next generation OSS. From service activation, fulfillment and assurance to managing your resources.
 
The suite is flexible and scalable to meet a wide range of installations, and packaged with tools to easily customize implementations to meet any environments requirements, including any service and support for any device.

Key Features of Redcell:
Service Provisioning / Activation
E-line, E-LAN, E-Tree
QoS for Voice, Video, Data
MPLS, L2/L3
Mobile Backhaul, LTE, IMS

Health & Performance Monitoring
Real-time device & service
 
Deep Discovery & Inventory:
Single database & GUI for consistent service configuration & activation
All H/W, S/W, physical & logical sub components
 
Topology
Hierarchical visual mapping services with alarm propagation
 
Configuration Management
Real-time configuration changes
Change detection & policy-based evaluation
 
File, OS Management
Backup, restoration, archiving, deployment & comparison
 
Comprehensive Reporting
Inventory: By Device, Sub component, Service
Change / Compliance: Who, What, When, How
 
Integration, Customization
Service Studio tools for quick modeling of any service
Device Driver SDK to support any device

For more information on managing LTE, please contact us or visit the Dorado Software website.