Oracle Communications Network Integrity

Oracle Communications Network Integrity deliver the following business benefits:

• Reduced capital expenditures through accurate and optimized network investment plans
• Lower operational expenditures through reduced fallout caused by incorrect inventory data
• Accuracy in network asset information for reliable financial and regulatory reporting
• Substantial operational savings by reducing unnecessary leased circuits and capacity
• Faster resolution of network faults from accurate inventory data
• Improved customer satisfaction and revenue assurance with “right first time” network configuration
• Higher user confidence in decision-making processes based on accurate inventory data

Network Discovery

• Flexible configuration and scheduling of discovery scans—Users can configure (including interface protocol, parameters, range of scan) and schedule discovery scans with black-out periods, as well as run on-demand scans.
• Powerful Eextensibility using Oracle Communications Design Studio —Oracle Communications Design Studio enables cartridge-based integration to the network, inventory and other applications and moves the majority of integration effort from coding to configuration.
• Productized cartridges for SNMP, TMF814, TL1, CORBA, XML and ASCII discovery supporting a wide variety of devices and systems; plus fully expandable cartridge strategy through Oracle Communications Design Studio.
• Flexible Deployment Options—Users can execute scans of different network interface protocols simultaneously, enabling a single instance to discover data from an entire network of disparate NEs, EMSs, and NMSs.

Assimilation of Circuits and Services

• Tiered assimilation—Uses multiple discovery scans to build circuit, cross-connect and service instances that can be easily reconciled with inventory objects.
• Productized cartridge for SDH Circuit Assimilation from TMF814 discovered data; extensible for other technologies.
• Extensive assimilation framework to support IP and optical connectivity and services through Oracle Communications Design Studio.

Network Reconciliation

• Reporting of discrepancies—Oracle Communications Network Integrityntegrity normalizes and compares configuration data from the network and inventory sources, then filters it and presents legitimate discrepancies.
• Intuitive visualization—Users can view all data discrepancies via a simple, browser-based interface, utilizing graphical, hierarchal, and table-based views for easy interpretation.
• Integrated inventory and external system reconciliation—The application is preintegrated with Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management and Oracle Communications MetaSolv Solution for inventory systems data integrity.
• Inventory system agnostic—The application can integrate and operate with any open external inventory or BSS / OSS system.