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Cisco PTC is a carrier-class service- and network-management system that provisions the business voice services, including the Cisco Voice-over-IP (VoIP) Softswitch, the virtual-packet-voice-switch connection between the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the VoIP service provider network, the Cisco CallManager Express, and the Cisco PGW Route Server Complex. Cisco PTC as the voice domain manager provides the foundation for fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) capability, thus enabling service providers to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end management solution.
Cisco PTC-VS enables the rapid adoption of new packet voice network technology by providing network-management tools comparable to those in the PSTN environment. This helps simplify network management and enables integration of the new VoIP network for coexistence with the traditional PSTN, see Figure 1. Service providers are able to reduce costs by using the more efficient packet network and taking advantage of its value-added services.
Cisco PTC-VS offers virtual entity management for the packet voice network similar to that of the traditional time-division multiplexing (TDM) networks (to achieve logical functioning and usability equivalent). Cisco PTC-VS Version 3.1 adds support for the Cisco CallManager Express and the Cisco PGW Route Server Complex.
Cisco PTC-VS enables service providers to lower the total cost of ownership, improve business quality, accelerate delivery of service, accelerate time to revenue, and reduce customer turnover.
Table 1 Features and Benefits of Cisco PTC-VS
Cisco PTC-VS consolidates and simplifies VoIP network-management tasks by offering a consistent network service-provisioning model. Cisco PTC-VS is a potent management solution that provides holistic management of voice networks using virtual entity concepts (Figure 2), including:
In addition to providing support for virtual entities requiring consistent configuration of multiple network devices, Cisco PTC-VS supports configuration operations for an entire region, enterprise, site, or zone, giving users a means of performing high-density and bulk-provisioning tasks. For example, this feature enables an operator to apply a given gateway configuration to all gateways for a zone or region. In fact, many Cisco PTC-VS provisioning operations lead to multiple management requests issued to various managers and network elements behind the scenes to provide simplified, holistic virtual entity operation.
In addition to provisioning and topology, Cisco PTC-VS Version 3.1 adds the ability to manage voice routing dial plans for the elements described in Table 2, including the Cisco CallManager Express, the Cisco PGW Route Server Complex, gateways, gatekeepers, and directory gatekeepers in the H.323 network. Cisco PTC-VS enables administrators to design, configure, deploy, and manage dial plans in Cisco H.323 VoIP networks. Through its GUI, Cisco PTC-VS centralizes and coordinates call-routing configurations for thousands of VoIP gateways and gatekeepers within a single application. A good dial plan makes optimal use of network resources, ensures that all calls are routed appropriately, implements business rules for routing efficiencies, and minimizes PSTN toll charges. The dial plan can be the most complex part of the VoIP network to configure. Cisco PTC-VS accomplishes these dial-plan objectives via a wizard-driven user interface, reducing the complexity and simplifying the task of managing, adding, deleting, and modifying the dial plan.
Table 2 Network Elements Supported by Cisco Packet Telephony Center
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In response to the critical need for an effective, comprehensive VoIP network-management tool, Cisco Systems® has delivered Cisco PTC-VS, engineered to provide vital functions for overall VoIP network management and service provisioning. Its multiaccess Web GUI empowers customers with a central entry point for complete network administration. Cisco PTC-VS can detect all physical network elements and create the virtual network entities or objects that are part of the voice service network. Detailed information about these elements is retained in an object model and is dynamically updated as events occur in the network, allowing Cisco PTC-VS to maintain synchronization and accurately reflect the network topology. The object model is critical to the creation and intelligent management of the virtual objects.
Cisco PTC-VS is designed with carrier-grade scalability, making it suitable for deployment in small-, medium-, or large-scale VoIP networks. Because VoIP technology deployments are increasing, Cisco PTC-VS is the perfect tool to significantly reduce the complexity involved in managing these packet voice networks, allowing technicians and engineers responsible for network management to perform simplified, end-to-end provisioning tasks. The Cisco PTC-VS open interface architecture offers access to customers' existing OSSs and eases efforts for third-party integration as well.
Cisco PTC-VS helps service providers realize considerably reduced network operations and management costs, reduced time to market for new customers and services, and reduced time to revenue, resulting in greater customer stability. Cisco PTC-VS contributes to increased revenue and a reduction in the service provider's total cost of network ownership.
For more information about Cisco PTC-VS solutions, visit:
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Posted: Mon Dec 29 00:03:16 PST 2003
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