Vertel ADE and MDE

Vertel is the leader in TMN Software. Vertel’s TMN Agent Development Environment (ADE) TMN Manager Development Environment and Protocol Stacks are serving ten thousands of network elements and hundreds of satisfied service provider and equipment vendor customers all over the world. 

Customers have questioned us how they can extend the use of these solutions to manage diverse systems, networks using different Protocols. Our answer is now available: M*Ware Convergent Manager which has integrated all the features and functions of the TMN ADE/MDE product, but offers a lot MORE!!!

• Build new management systems 50% faster, with higher and consistent quality

• Simply 

  • Add new protocols to your existing application

  • Share your applications to support more networks or elements,

  • Upgrade your application with new features-by plugging in additional M*Ware services

  • Build management applications from the element level to the network level and the service level using the same framework

  • Provide Security functionality spanning the entire network infrastructure to provide robust and consistent security policies. 

M*Ware Convergent Manager (core configuration) with the M*Ware CMIP/Q3 adapter support incorporates everything that our MDE/ADE offers but presents the next generation integration solution.

Comparison

M*Ware Convergent Manager is the best solution for any type of Manager/Agent development and a major step forwards from the existing toolkit based development tools supporting a specific protocol. A short comparison:

Just like the ADE/MDE product, M*Ware Convergent Manager/Agent is 

• fully object-oriented, 

• highly customizable to specific Manager/Agent needs, 

• Integrated with the code-generation capability of the M*Ware TMN Manager Simulator. 

• Supporting dynamic MIB Loading features make it possible to develop generic Manager applications where the MIB is loaded at runtime without recompilation (the MIB is translated into metadata, that can be loaded dynamically)

• fully supporting the TMF TMN/C++ High Level API (TMF API) , 

• Full compliance of higher layer OSI protocol stack

• Providing ample example code

In addition to the above mentioned functionalities, M*ware Convergent Manager offers the following important technological and business advantages. All customization and user enhancements can be made using the DE tools provided with M*Ware. The M*Ware Convergent Manager is

• Multi Protocol (you can simply add another protocol adapter, like SNMP, CORBA, XML or TL-1)

• Multi-threaded (scalability)

• Offering the M*Ware 3Dimensional development paradigm (interface, development, application), in which many steps have been automated to allow the developer to concentrate on a few core tasks: 

  • Designing the information model

  • Implementing the functionality in the application layer

• Offering the possibility to simply plug-in new capabilities with additional M*Ware services

  • A wide range of component services that can be used and easily customized. 

  • Other special services can be developed, and be easily re-used among diverse applications. 

• Based on new and advanced network information management 

  • Modeling different systems in a protocol independent manner in line with the DMTF CIM

  • GDMO/UML information models and SNMP MIBs are imported automatically

  • The application is fully component based and NG-OSS compliant

  • Data persistency support 

  • A range of services and packages to facilitate development at the application layer.

With all this exciting technological news – the business value of M*Ware increases equally. M*Ware convergent Manager enables our customer to achieve high developer efficiency, and its flexible architecture ensures maximum reuse and standardization in their environment as well. 

What does this mean for existing ADE/MDE customers and users??

M*Ware Convergent Manager means there is a lot of good news!! Vertel offers a very attractive way for existing customers to move to the latest M*Ware release. Not only commercially but also technically! 

Call your Vertel Sales Manager today and expand your applications tomorrow, seamlessly!