Alcatel-Lucent 1353 - Manual (Page 10)

Reduced maintenance costs:
• Centralizing/automating operations 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
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 measurements
and alarms crossing thresholds
Reduced customer service expenses
— automating all activities for
activating service and providing
customer assistance through
open interfaces that support:
• Service activation
• Subscriber status management
• Line and telephone set testing
Reduced CAPEX and OPEX
Figure 5. Overview of the High Availability OS Cluster Solution
1353 LMS
Spare
1353 LMS
1353 LMS Mirrored disk sharing
N+1 local protection
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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 network 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 redun-
dancy of servers (see Figure 5). A backup server will take
over the function of any server that fails in the system.