Alcatel-Lucent 1353 Network Card User Manual


 
Reduced maintenance costs:
•Centralizing/automatingoperationsandmaintenance
(O&M) activities in the OSS, such as alarm reporting
or testing for the multivendor
access network
•Adaptingnetworkmanagementfunctionalitytoyour
organization’s and staff expertise. (The Alcatel-Lucent
1353 LMS has been designed according to the TMN
model with element, network and service management
levels that provide flexibility in terms of architecture and
operator profiles.)
•Providingoperation-drivenmenus,constrained
checking and on-line help to avoid errors
•Properlyforecastingsparestockwithnetworkinventory
and alarm information
Reduced provisioning expenses:
•Exportingaccurateinformationonnetworkresources
for correct forecasting of access network deployment
and minimized number of field interventions
By lowering capital and operating
expenses, the Alcatel-Lucent
Litespan family has a significant
impact. The Alcatel-Lucent 1353
LMS fits into your OSS puzzle by
satisfying four key expectations:
Network fault reduction:
•Proactivealarming
•Routinglinetesting
•Performance/trafcmeasurements
and alarms crossing thresholds
Reduced customer service expenses
— automating all activities for
activating service and providing
customer assistance through
open interfaces that support:
•Serviceactivation
•Subscriberstatusmanagement
•Lineandtelephonesettesting
Reduced CAPEX and OPEX
Figure 5. Overview of the High Availability OS Cluster Solution
1353 LMS
Spare
1353 LMS
1353 LMSMirrored disk sharing
N+1 local protection
Alcatel-Lucent 1353 Litespan Management System (LMS)10
Choice of operating systems and reliability
Multiple operating systems
The Alcatel-Lucent 1353 LMS is available for UNIX and
Windows 2000 operating systems. UNIX servers can each
support up to 3,000 network elements and 65 operators.
ThePCinstallationsareidealformanagingnetworks
with fewer than 30 nodes.
Redundant servers
System availability is enhanced through the N+1 redun-
dancy of servers (see Figure 5). A backup server will take
over the function of any server that fails in the system.