Alcatel-Lucent 5650 - Manual (Page 3)

3 Alcatel-Lucent 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager
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 unintended SLA violations. In addition,
relying on scarce IP routing experts to provision and
troubleshoot the MPLS infrastructure and services is
not efficient for mainstream operations.
The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM offers routing archi -
tects and network operators an effective tool that can
be used to isolate and resolve control plane problems,
and under stand the impact of control plane changes
on services [Table 1].
The 5650 CPAM delivers this functionality based
on real-time control plane information provided by
the Alcatel-Lucent 7701 Control Plane Assurance
Appliance (CPAA). The 7701 CPAA is a route
listening and route processing hardware device that
non-intrusively participates in routing plane signaling.
It is based on Alcatel-Lucent’s proven and evolving
service router operating system (SR-OS).
C U S T O M E R I S S U E
Error-prone and time-consuming
manual verification of control plane
configuration and topology
Services are sometimes impacted by
routing changes that are invisible to
network operations
Lack of simple control plane tools inte -
grated with service and network views
impede network operators from resolv -
ing service/MPLS provisioning fall-outs
and service failures related to the control
plane; operators must rely on highly-
paid and scarce IP routing resources
B E N E F I T S
Accelerates verification and
troubleshooting of the control plane and
reduces service MTTR and ability to offer
stricter SLAs
Proactive control plane change detection
and impact analysis enables service
providers to offer stricter service SLAs
Enables the service provider to cost-
effectively scale operations by enabling
network operators to understand the
relationship between service/tunnels
and the control plane in order to resolve
provisioning issues, without the help
of scarce IP experts
H O W T H E 5 6 5 0 C PA M A D D R E S S E S T H E I S S U E
Graphical control plane topology validation and diagnosis
Proactive control plane surveillance and instant visualization
of control plane, IP and MPLS path changes
5620 SAM SLA monitoring integrated with 5650 CPAM MPLS
tunnel monitoring for instant impact analysis of tunnel
changes on service delivery
Simple graphical representation of the control plane
topology and diagnosis tools
5620 SAM service (Layer 2 and 3), MPLS tunnel and OAM
trace overlay on the 5650 CPAM control plane topology view
Table 1. Solving Service Provider Issues with the 5650 CPAM