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Intelligent Carrier-Class EMS System for Optical Networks
Product Overview
Cisco® Transport Manager is an intelligent, multitechnology, carrier-class element management system (EMS) for optical networks designed following the TMF MTNM principles. Cisco Transport Manager simplifies provisioning and network management and reduces overall costs by providing operators with:
• Single system to manage optical networks: Increases productivity by simplifying complex provisioning tasks of optical network elements
• Single repository for network information: Supports configuration, fault, performance, and security management to capture network information such as resources, alarms, and performance data
• Integration with operations support system (OSS): Foundation for northbound EMS-to-network management system (NMS) interfaces, with gateway options for CORBA, compliant with TMF 814 standard, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and direct SQL database access
Features and Benefits
Cisco Transport Manager increases user productivity through a powerful GUI-based management system that simplifies complex provisioning tasks. The Cisco Transport Manager northbound interfaces accelerate integration into the operations support system's customer environment.
GUI-Based Management for Unparalleled Productivity
Cisco Transport Manager is a powerful GUI-based management system that makes advanced management capabilities such as A-to-Z circuit provisioning easy to learn and use. Its explorer-style navigation and extensive use of wizards, tool tips, legends, and online help allow operators to perform tasks quickly and efficiently. Many otherwise tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone tasks can be fully streamlined using these intuitive tools, lowering the cost of network operation (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Cisco Transport Manager GUI: Domain Explorer, Network Map, and NE Explorer
High Availability for Carrier-Class Management
Cisco Transport Manager provides the same easy-to-use manageability features provided by the optical local craft tool, the Cisco Transport Controller. In addition to this, Cisco Transport Manager is designed for continuous operation. High availability deployment configurations are available to provide local and geographic redundancy options. Cisco Transport Manager can cope with heavy load scenarios such as high circuit-transaction rates, performance monitoring data collection, alarm storms, and numerous simultaneous clients (up to 100). Cisco Transport Manager plays a crucial role in the high availability of the network itself. Cisco Transport Manager's fault management and performance management capabilities help to ensure that network problems are discovered quickly and accurately, so they can be addressed often before a customer's service is noticeably affected.
Northbound Interfaces for Operations Automation
Industry-standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) protocols make Cisco Transport Manager a flexible building block in traditional as well as next-generation OSS infrastructures. Cisco Transport Manager not only captures and stores all relevant information from the optical transport domain, it also makes that information and its management available to higher-layer OSSs using open communications protocols. For example, the TeleManagement Forum-compliant (TMF 814 v3.0) CORBA northbound interface of Cisco Transport Manager facilitates the implementation of the next generation of inventory management, provisioning, flow-through circuit management, and service assurance. The Cisco Transport Manager CORBA northbound interface is used for validation with the Cisco Info Center.
Product Specifications
Table 1 lists the product specifications for Cisco Transport Manager Release 9.2.
Table 1. Product Specifications
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User interface |
• Rich point-and-click, intuitive user interface
• Domain explorer for logical organization of network elements (NEs) and subnetwork explorer for hierarchical organization of network elements
• Easy navigation from network to shelf, cards, port
• Network maps for topology display with zooming capabilities
• Alarm browser and alarm log
• Control panel for managing server properties and default settings
• Client inactivity timers for automatic screen lock and automatic logout
• Powerful step-by-step provisioning wizards
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Configuration management |
• Native equipment and facility provisioning
• A-to-Z circuit provisioning
• Layer 2 provisioning using quality of service (QoS) templates
• Network element explorer for detailed configuration of network elements
• Topology and multilayer link management
• Broadcast software download and software activation
• Automatic network element memory backup, on-demand restoration
• Networkwide operations performed in bulk fashion (for example, alarm severities and default profiles assignment)
• IPv6 and SNMPv3 support
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Fault management |
• Real-time visual and audible alarm (optional continuous alarm) and event management
• Current and historical alarms
• Alarm-aware displays, alarm browser and log, network maps, network element explorers, domain explorer, subnetwork explorer, and summary dashboard
• Enable and disable unacknowledged alarm capability
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Performance management |
• Configurable automatic collection of near-end and far-end 5-minutes, 10-minutes, 15-minutes to 1-day performance monitoring data
• Query wizard for performance monitoring reports
• Robust performance monitoring collection option to recover performance monitoring data missed during communication downtime
• Real-time display with 10-second polling
• Graph of performance monitoring data
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Security management |
• Centralized management of network element user accounts
• Upload, storage, and viewing of network element audit logs
• Comprehensive Cisco Transport Manager audit log tracks all user actions
• Enforced password complexity, password aging
• Custom profiles for access control of different user groups
• Basic external authentication based on SiteMinder policy server, a third-party application from Computer Associates International, Inc.
• External authentication based on RADIUS/SiteMinder server
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Administration |
• Modular Installation (optical, MGX voice gateways, or both)
• Hot database backup initiated through the graphical interface
• Extended and granular logging capabilities to facilitate troubleshooting of the system
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Northbound interfaces |
• Gateway/CORBA
• Gateway/SNMP
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Network elements support |
See the Release Notes for Cisco Transport Manager Release 9.2 for the NE software releases that Cisco Transport Manager 9.2 supports. |
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Reliability and availability |
High availability options: • Local
• Geographically diverse
High Availability Solution based on Symantec Veritas to be licensed separately. |
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Platform |
• Sun SPARC/T2 Solaris 10 server (for example, SUN T5120: http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5120/index.xml/)
• Oracle 10g database (not included in Cisco Transport Manager license)
• Client running on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Solaris 10
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How to Order
To place an order, visit the Cisco ordering homepage. For the latest part numbers, refer to the Cisco Transport Manager product bulletin under the product literature section at http://www.cisco.com/go/ctm.
Ordering Information
Cisco Transport Manager is made up of the base media kit, additional optional functional components (Gateway/CORBA and High Availability), and client and network element right-to-use (RTU) licenses. Table 2 lists the part numbers and descriptions associated with Cisco Transport Manager 9.2.
Table 2. Ordering Information
Service and Support
Cisco offers a wide range of services programs to accelerate customer success. These innovative services programs are delivered through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and partners, resulting in high levels of customer satisfaction. Cisco services help you to protect your network investment, optimize network operations, and prepare the network for new applications to extend network intelligence and the power of your business. For more information about Cisco services, see Cisco Technical Support Services or Cisco Advanced Services.
For More Information
For additional product information on Cisco Transport Manager Release 9.2, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/ctm or contact your local account representative.