Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions Litespan Management System 1353 - Manual (Page 10)

Reduced CAPEX and OPEX
By lowering capital and operating expenses, the Alcatel-Lucent Litespan family has a significant impact.
The Alcatel-Lucent 1353 LMS fits into your OSS puzzle by satisfying four key expectations:
Network fault reduction:
• Proactive alarming
• Routing line testing
• Performance/traffic measure -
ments and alarms crossing
thresholds
Reduced customer service
expenses – automating all activi -
ties for activating service and
providing customer assistance
through open interfaces that
support:
• Service activation
• Subscriber status management
• Line and telephone set testing
Reduced maintenance costs:
• Centralizing/automating opera -
tions and maintenance (O&M)
activities in the OSS, such as
alarm reporting or testing for
the multivendor access network
• Adapting network management
functionality to your organization’s
and staff expertise. (The Alcatel-
Lucent 1353 LMS has been
designed according to the TMN
model with element, network
and service management levels
that provide flexibility in terms
of architecture and operator
profiles.)
• Providing operation-driven
menus, constrained checking
and on-line help to avoid errors
• Properly forecasting spare stock
with network inventory and
alarm information
Reduced provisioning expenses:
• Exporting accurate information
on network resources for correct
forecasting of access network
deployment and minimized
number of field interventions
10 Alcatel-Lucent 1353 LMS
Choice of Operating Systems and Reliability
Multiple operating systems
The Alcatel-Lucent 1353 LMS is available for UNIX and Windows
2000 operating systems. UNIX servers can each support up to
3,000 net work elements and 65 operators. The PC installations
are ideal for managing networks with fewer than 30 nodes.
Redundant servers
System availability is enhanced through the N+1 redundancy
of servers (see Figure 5). A backup server will take over the
function of any server that fails in the system.
Figure 5. Overview of the High Availability OS Cluster Solution
1353 LMS
Spare
1353 LMS
1353 LMS Mirrored Disk Sharing
N+1 Local Protection