Alcatel 1353 NM (ETSI Version)

Element Manager for Multi-Service Transport Networks

The ever-increasing breed of Alcatel 1353 NM offers to Network In addition 1353 NM is designed to
communication services (from leased Operations Centers (NOCs) the support 1354 NML applications
lines and traditional voice traffic to capability to centralize and integrate and/or integration with "external"
Internet and data traffic, mobile the supervision of the full Alcatel OSs via open interfaces (1359 IOO),
communications, video distribution, transport NE portfolio (Terrestrial, giving visibility to umbrella systems
etc.) needs the support of powerful Microwave, Submarine) combining about network data including Alarms,
and flexible transport technologies. different NE types (1stGen ADMs; Performance Monitoring, NE
Optical wavelength division OMSNs; OMSGs; ISA Boards, etc.) Equipment Inventory.
multiplexing (WDM), concatenation and supporting multiple transmission For more information on Alcatel 1350
techniques, ATM, MPLS and technologies (SDH/PDH, WDM, ATM, management suite and 1359 IOO
Ethernet integration with SDH Ethernet, MPLS). product, please refer to the relevant
technology are all examples of the documentation.
efforts to improve the efficiency of the Pursuing the concept of “ONE
network while delivering to end Element Manager”, able to harmonize
customers a more and more the supervision of different
sophisticated mix of offered services. generations of equipment, bringing
different management interfaces (e.g.
Such a demanding and evolving CMIP/SNMP/TL1), is considered a
scenario requires the capability to primary Alcatel goal, in order to
flexibly manage “the power of the make the management of the mixed
network” in a cost-effective way. To environment – the normal scenario
pursue this challenging objective, when networks grow and evolve – the This document describes the version of the
Alcatel provides the 1350 simplest and most effective possible. Alcatel 1353 NM adapted for ETSI
market.
management suite which includes the
Alcatel 1353 NM as the single Network Operations benefit from
Element Manager of Alcatel multi- 1353 NM features mainly in the area
The Alcatel 1350 management suite
technology/multi-service networks, of corrective and preventive offers the most complete and cost effective
integrating traditional transport maintenance, equipment transport management solution that enables
Network Service Providers to efficiently
technologies (SDH, WDM) with provisioning, network administration,
deliver a full range of services to business
emerging data traffic (ATM, MPLS, as well as for all operations oriented and residential customers.
Ethernet), mainly coming from Metro to element (NE) management.
part of network.
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the network.
Like other Alcatel NM applications,
the 1353 NM uses the Alarm
Surveillance (AS) component to
support this challenging task. 1353
NM integrates AS so to exploit all the
advanced fault management features
linked to real- time alarm handling:
> Customization of different alarm
sublists, in which current alarms
can be grouped according to user
settings
> Alarm summary with counters per
sublist
Fig. 1: Alcatel 1353 NM as ETSI EML for optical/microwave transport networks
> Comprehensive filtering criteria,
to let Operators focus on a subset
Product Overview > Network Supervision and
of alarms of interest
Administration
From 1353 NM Network Operators > Export and Print facilities
> System Administration
can supervise all the various kinds of > Alarm severity setting, enabling
NEs in the transport network to either switch-off secondary
Corrective Maintenance
consisting of optical/microwave alarms and all alarms from NEs
transmission, ranging from 1st The quickest reaction to equipment under special maintenance
Generation SDH Add-Drop alarms is by far the most important activities, or switch-on all alarms
Multiplexers and Radio task a NOC shall face. Therefore the from a given functional block to
terminals/regenerators – still EML application is asked to support perform in-depth diagnostic tasks
representing in a number of cases the OA&M personnel to reach the highest > Automatic acknowledgment and
major part of Customers’ assets – to benchmarks in the time-to- purging actions against alarms of
New Generation Optical Multiservice understand the location, severity, or minor importance (upon user-
Nodes/Gateways, where SDH/WDM duration of any failure occurring in defined criteria)
technology is combined with data
transport services (ATM, Ethernet).
In addition both terrestrial and
submarine WDM equipment are part
of the managed set.
All the managed equipment share a
common set of tools/components
through which Operators perform
their tasks:
> Corrective maintenance
> Equipment provisioning
> Transmission/Synchronization
provisioning
> Performance Monitoring

Fig. 2: Alarm Surveillance: alarm summary, lists and administration facilities

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Equipment Provisioning
1353 NM provides a full set of
functions to set-up, initialize, view
and modify the equipment
configuration and its operating
parameters.
Equipment configuration tasks are
performed with the same application
available to the in-field personnel
with the NE Craft Terminal, so
ensuring that NOC staff can easily
align with local operations. Such
tasks include:
> NE creation and configuration
> Board set-up
> Selective alarm inhibition on
equipment under maintenance
> Equipment protection scheme
configuration Fig. 3: Equipment provisioning: Subrack and Port Views

Transmission and since they provide viewing,

Synchronization Provisioning configuration, fault, performance

Transmission and Synchronization management of network-wide

domains can be more effectively services, avoiding operations with NE

managed by 1354 family applications, granularity, for which Operators

themselves are responsible for global
consistency.
However, depending on the network
context, in some cases Operators may
exploit 1353 NM to provision cross-
connections, set-up ring protection
schemes, perform protection
commands, define the payload
structure, etc again using the same
application available with NE Craft
Terminal. In general the 1353 NM
supports all the management
operations offered by the NE itself,
with no restrictions.

Fig. 4: Transmission view

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address network supervision and

administration tasks on multiple
NEs, even belonging to different
types, so to ease and reduce the
burden of a number of operational
cases.
The most important areas covered by
such tools are:
> DCN configuration/supervision:
Set-up of NE addresses,
monitoring the management
connections (including controls
over connectivity, full automatic
re-synchronization with NEs in
case of temporary DCN failures,
detection of inconsistencies due to
operations performed at Local
Craft Terminal), OSI-over-IP

Fig. 5: PM Data Browser: report generation and query facilities tunnel configuration, “ping NE”
function
Performance Monitoring cells or frames) are collected and > Centralized visibility of NE
stored in 1353 NM database. management states: Supervision,
In addition to the alarm surveillance,
In particular, 1353 NM offers: Alignment, Most severe active
Operators can take advantage of the
> Management of threshold crossing alarm, etc. are integrated in
1353 NM capability to activate,
alerts, specific alarms raised when animated icons populating user
collect and archive data about the
a given transmission resource Maps
Quality of the transmission services
experiences a degradation in the > Centralized control of active
provided by the managed NEs at the
monitored signal/layer Abnormal Conditions forced by
different layers.
> Browsing, export and graphical User Commands
The management features provided
report generation features over > Query capabilities to count and
for Performance Monitoring data are
the PM database stored in the locate items of a given Board Type
to be considered a support for either
platform itself hosted in the managed equipment
preventive-maintenance campaigns
> Query tools to support on-demand > Centralized/batch-oriented NE
or the basis for off-line systems in
requests for location of resources SW distribution for supporting
charge of archiving and processing
below a given quality threshold network upgrades, offering
QoS data, e.g. to calculate both SLA
deferred mode according to a
(in case of services sold to third
Network Supervision & scheduled time
parties) and SLO (Service Level
Administration > Centralized/automatic NE MIB
Objectives, in case of internal audit)
backup
parameters. In addition to the NE oriented
> Log-oriented viewers to ease
Both SDH error counters compliant to provisioning tools, sharing the same
specific diagnostic/audit tasks on
QoS and Maintenance criteria for "look & feel" of 1320 CT as common
both equipment events and
Transport Networks and Data Service Craft Terminal platform, 1353 NM
Operators’ commands
accounting counters (e.g. transmitted supports a set of generic tools able to
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to activate both generic tools and NE-

specific applications:
> PNM (Map Manager)
> AS (Alarm Surveillance)
> PMDS (PM data browser)
> SMF (System Management)
Moreover, the application components
themselves are highly integrated to
facilitate easy efficient use (e.g.
context navigation between
application components) and where
relevant, replicate the same features
as used at local NE Craft Terminal.

PNM is the network map manager

where NEs, DCN devices and other
non-managed entities (such as
Fig. 6: Network Administration view topological links) are displayed
according to a hierarchy-structure of
System Administration maps and submaps. The map views
Process Configuration & can be built and customized by
1353 NM supports a number of
Monitoring: An application to set-up Administrators, who then distribute
System Administration facilities,
and supervise application processes, them to all the other users, so to have
aimed at giving to the Administrators
tuned according to the network size. under a central control the network
a set of tools enabling them to set-up
a reliable and secure multi-user layout for each group of the NOC
Application Data Backup & team. A choice of background maps is
environment.
Restore: Network, alarm, PM, available. Local map facilities are
SWDL and Operator repositories can also supported, in the case each
Operator Management: A
be backed-up to recover from a Operator in the NOC organization is
centralized tool, which keeps user
platform crash. Also used to support fully responsible for his own maps.
information aligned between Master
NM migration procedures to new PNM maps are the usual entry-point
and Presentation stations. 1353 NM
releases. for launching network-wide and NE-
provides functions to protect itself
against unauthorized access and specific tools; in particular the “Show
1353 NM User Interface Equipment” option opens the NE
profile application capabilities
against Operators’ hierarchy, 1353 NM application provides a View. Here Operators can navigate
according to both functional access simple but powerful Graphic User from the quasi-photographic picture
domain (FAD: mapping Operators’ Interface guiding Operators in their of the equipment rack/subrack down
profile with access to single ordinary tasks as well as specific and to the block diagram views of the
management operations) and network more rare operations. The NM SDH/WDM/ATM/Ethernet functional
access domain (NAD: defining common desktop provides the entry blocks. This offers all the detailed
resource domains –NE/Ports– to points to the application areas from information needed to analyze the
which Operators have access) which Operators start their status of the Network Element in the
permissions. management activities, allowing then most user-friendly way.
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AS is the Alarm Surveillance module, On-Line Help: For all views and specific Operator context and
where all alarms notified by the tasks, a context sensitive on-line-help properly matching specific
managed elements are stored and system is provided. The network business, network and
displayed according a rich set of operator can obtain hints and organization needs.
customization facilities. The AS explanations to guide him in the
Sublists concept enables NOC handling of different operational 1353 NM Platform Highlights
maintenance teams to be always situations. In addition, the complete
1353 NM supports a very scalable
focused with the most important and product documentation is accessible
platform environment, where the
urgent problems currently active in via the online "help" system.
supporting HP Hardware can be
the network.
selected according to a given Operator
The AS GUI benefits, as well as the Overall OSS/NM
context (dimensioning requirements
other applications, from the powerful Management Solution:
for network, number of Users; co-
navigation facilities integrated into Interaction with Other
hosting of other NML application on
1353 NM. When selecting one or more Applications
same server; resilience level…).
alarm records, Operators can As shown in Fig.1, the 1353 NM The platform architecture is based on
immediately navigate to the detailed application supports interaction with a Master Station, where all database
NE Views with one action to show the other applications for: and NE managers run, plus one or
affected resource in the most > Interworking with NML more Presentation Stations, which
meaningful context. This provides application (e.g. Alcatel 1354xx) to can be Servers supporting PC-based
immediate information about fault permit NML application to Operator Positions. Optionally, in
location and its consequences. integrate 1353 EMLs and thus small networks, Master and
perform relevant NML fault, Presentation Station functions can be
PMDS is the PM data manager, configuration, and PM co-hosted on just one HP machine.
where all database query and report management of the integrated
generation functions are available to network and its
support Operators, either for connections/circuits/services This leaflet provides a product
surveying on the long-term quality carrying traffic across the whole overview including the major benefits
trend of the managed resources (e.g. network that end-users can gain from Alcatel
to check if a set of important > NE equipment inventory data 1353 NM (ETSI version).
resources are meeting SLO targets) or handover to other Operating
for investigating a specific NE/link Systems application(s) For a more complete list of product
behavior (e.g. to understand the > Alarm handover to other features and more detailed technical
nature of random errors, etc.). Operating Systems application(s) descriptions, please contact your
> PM data handover to other Alcatel account representative.
SMF is the System Management Operating Systems application(s) Additional information can be also
repository, where all the off-line and
found by visiting our
administration tools are listed 1353 NM application can be “www.alcatel.com” web site.
according to the relevant application flexibly inserted in an OSS/NM
area. solution being used to suit a

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