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Alcatel-Lucent
5650 Control Plane
Assurance Manager
Extending IP/MPLS Management with
Integrated Control Plane Management
and Visibility
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Overview A significant portion of service failures, provisioning problems and troubleshooting delays can be directly attributed to control plane mis-configuration, undetected routing topology changes and the lack of simple tools that could be used to understand the control plane’s impact on services. These operational inefficiencies lead to a number of business problems for service providers. They make it difficult to provide more consistent service delivery quality. They impact the ability t
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Solving Control Plane Operational Issues with the 5650 CPAM Service providers offering business critical services and delivery sensitive residential applications such as video can’t afford to let their customers down. Their reputation for consistent service delivery quality and adherence to SLAs is crucial. Since IP and MPLS provide the control plane technology that allows services to be rerouted around failures, leaving this critical technology unsupervised and manually operated can lead to
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Re-Defining IP/MPLS Management While IP/MPLS control plane protocols are crucial to The first successful, large scale, IP-based networks were enabling unprecedented cost-effectiveness for rerouting deployed to support residential high speed Internet (HSI) around failures, the majority of today’s management connectivity. This high volume, low cost, best-effort applications from other equipment vendors do not service did not warrant the need for sophisticated concern themselves with monitoring the
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The 5620 SAM allows operators to focus on managing services. It intel - ligently correlates corresponding network objects and the effect of their status on service delivery. This service management model provides multi-technol ogy and multi-layer service provisioning, service alarm management, service/customer impact analysis, auto-generated service test suite and service media- tion (service statistics, alarms, inven- tory and provisioning) for operation support systems (OSS). To take carrier
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Industry’s First Integrated Service and Control Plane Management Solution The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM revolutionizes IP/MPLS manage - Service troubleshooting time is further reduced by ment. It is the industry’s first off- allowing operators to instantly determine whether the-shelf equipment vendor solution a control plane topology change caused a variation that enables network operators to overlay Layer 2 and 3 services, in service quality. MPLS tunnels, and OAM traces on the control plane
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Leveraging the Market Leading Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Portfolio By leveraging best-in-class and proven technologies from the Alcatel-Lucent service router portfolio, the comprehensive 5650 CPAM can efficiently be deployed in a service provider’s environment without introducing significant risk or cost [Figure 4]. The real-time control plane information is provided to the 5650 CPAM by the Alcatel-Lucent 7701 CPAA, which non-intrusively participates in routing plane signaling. This applia
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Key Features Proactive Control Plane Surveillance The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM provides a number of mechanisms that monitor control plane health. With proactive control plane surveillance, an alarm generated by the 5650 CPAM alerts operators that the routing plane is undergoing changes that exceed a configurable limit. Operators can navigate to a control plane topology map where all new or deleted IP routes are color coded to help them zero in on the routes affected by the routing updates [Figu
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In addition to this intuitive visual 5620 SAM Layer 2 and 3 Service, topology display, routing architects MPLS Tunnels and OAM Trace can trigger various queries that will Overlays compute multi-area, end-to-end The virtual private routed network routes based on real-time routing (VPRN), virtual private line service information. The results are high - (VPLS), virtual private wire service lighted on the topology maps. (VPWS) composite services, MPLS tunnels and LSPs provisioned For troubleshoot
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While provisioning network infra - In short, whether solving provi - structure or services, network oper - sioning fall-outs, service failures or ators now have visualization and proactively detecting control plane diagnostic tools at their fingertips issues, the Alcatel-Lucent 5650 that allow them to identify what CPAM offers a range of features is causing provisioning fall-outs. that enable routing architects and For example, should an LSP fail to network operators to link service become opera
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Innovative IP/MPLS Management with Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent believes that opera - tional efficiency has a critical impact on a service provider’s success with the deployment of new revenue generating services, such as business virtual private networks (VPNS) and triple play residential services over an IP/MPLS network. For this reason, Alcatel-Lucent continues to develop innovative network management tools and processes. This ongoing innovation allows Alcatel-Lucent to offer a comprehensive
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