M*Ware™ Convergent Manager - Element Management

• Reduce element management development cost with 40 % or more

• Reduce your time to market

• Differentiate your network equipment by offering the best management

• Decide on an EMS that 

  • Is ready to support all protocols northbound and southbound

  • you can use for multiple product lines

  • you can easily expand as a network manager

Challenges of Element Management

Equipment vendors need to provide element management systems with their equipment. Typically this involves substantial development costs for them, and there is almost no pay-back.

However since the EMS interfaces directly with the Network Element and is the most visible part for service providers to judge the quality of the network and network equipment, it is an extremely critical part of the offering of every network equipment provider. 

An EMS is usually designed to manage a single type of network element. However, the growing complexity of networks and communication services requires the new generation EMSs to handle a wider group of network elements. 

Some of the functionality traditionally considered to be a network management system (NMS) function is now being developed and deployed in the EMS and new EMSs are required to support attractive graphical user interfaces. 

Legacy network elements and special customer configurations create the necessity to maintain many more versions and releases of the Element Management system than desirable, which creates problems, costs and delays with every network or system upgrade.

For Service Providers, the high number of different Element managers is not very attractive. They would prefer Network Equipment Vendors to deliver Convergent Management Systems which are able to manage a variety of equipments at the element management layer.

Convergent EMS provides all the answers

Because of its architecture, design and the range of pre-built services, the Convergent Element Manager is ideally suited to dramatically reduce EMS development costs and rapidly configure high quality EMSs for voice, data, access, metropolitan, transport and wireless network equipment that perfectly fit the image and brand of the network equipment. 

Available in both C++ and Java, it makes developing the element management systems easy, portable, and cost effective. 

The feature-rich graphical user interface is built to provide an impressive and easy-to-use interface to the ultimate EMS user with both local (Stand Alone) and remote access (Web based) 

The Convergent Manager is built to consolidate multiple equipment lines EMSs and to be easily upgraded to NMS with new M*Ware Services if required. 

Convergent EMS supports a vast number of pre-built, off-the-shelf functionalities including full fault (alarm receipt, filtering, correlation etc.), configuration, accounting, performance and security (FCAPS) functionality in compliance with public process standards (such as ITU M.3100) , and attractive other features such as a detailed graphical inventory view on the equipment, sub network definitions, automated audit functions and flexible topology views. And to tackle the legacy problem, it can be very attractive to use M*Ware Convergent Manager with plug-in remotely manageable, dynamic mediation. In this way, network equipment vendors can ensure network equipment and system upgrades do not cause unneeded high costs, and still support every special customer environment.

Easy Integration

Convergent Manager EMS integrates with different types of network elements and provides multiple southbound interfaces (CMIP, TL1, SNMP, and CORBA). M*Ware EMS also provides multiple northbound interfaces (CORBA, TL1, SNMP, CMIP, MTNM(TMF814) and XML) for integration with existing network management systems (NMS), service management systems (SMS) and OSSs in a service provider network.

M*Ware Convergent Manager Architecture: 

As shown in Figure 1, Convergent Manager EMS is a fully distributed architecture based on the M*Ware-UBT (Ubiquitous Bus Technology) allowing application designers to design the final EMS architecture in a number of ways. The various M*Ware services applications in the Convergent EMS have the flexibility to manage their own separate database or share the databases.

M*Ware Convergent Manager has a dedicated configuration set of M*Ware services for Element Management

	The Convergent Manager Functions
	The Convergent Manager Architecture
	The M*Ware Convergent Manager Clients
	The M*Ware Convergent Manager Network Interfaces
	Convergent Manager Integration with other OSSs
	Convergent Manager Technical Differentiators

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