Cisco Transport Manager

Cisco® Transport Manager is an intelligent element management system (EMS) that smoothly manages the entire Cisco® ONS Family of products. Cisco Transport Manager supports configuration, fault, performance, and security management functional areas and serves as a foundation for integration into a larger, overall operations support system (OSS) environment. Highly available configuration, self-healing processes, and comprehensive management across the Cisco ONS Family provide service providers and large enterprises with a resilient, adaptable, and integrated carrier-class EMS solution.

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, the extensive use of wizards, tool tips, legends, and online help allow an operator to perform tasks quickly and efficiently. Many otherwise tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone tasks can be fully streamlined using Cisco Transport Manger's intuitive tools.

Cisco Transport Manager is designed for continuous operation. High-availability deployment configurations are available to achieve an application availability of 99.999 percent. 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. 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, allowing them to be addressed often before a customer's service is noticeably affected.

Cisco Transport Manager can scale up to 2500 network elements and 100 concurrent clients per Cisco Transport Manager server. As such, Cisco Transport Manager is appropriate for managing large optical networks.

Cisco Transport Manager supports optical network technologies, such as SONET/SDH, long haul, and metro dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM). These technologies are deployed for transport and services such as DS-1/E1, DS-3/E3, 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and storage networking protocols. By covering all Cisco ONS Family products, Cisco Transport Manager eliminates the need to deploy multiple technology-specific EMSs, which results in capital and operating expense savings. Cisco Transport Manager has a global reach-simultaneously it can manage both ANSI and ETSI network elements, which is ideal for service providers or large enterprises with an international service area.

Cisco Transport Manager is cost-effective, using industry-standard platforms such as Sun Solaris, Oracle, and Microsoft Windows to fit smoothly into the IT environment of most companies. Cisco Transport Manager's easy installation, smooth administration, and simple user interface also help decrease cost of ownership. Using scalable Sun server platforms, it is possible to minimize up-front investment but still grow the network by gradually adding additional processors, memory, and disk space.

The product specifications for Cisco Transport Manager Release 4.7 are shown in Table 1.

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