Network Management Solutions

• MPLS Discovery

  The WebNMS MPLS Accelerator pack offers a powerful discovery process to easily discover the physical, data, network, and transport layers present in the MPLS network. The system can automatically discover layer 3 entities such as LER and LSR, MPLS enabled interfaces, layer 2 or layer 3 connections between them such as pseudowires, label switch path etc. Service layer entities such as VPN, pseudowire, QoS policy, and their logical entities are also discovered automatically. The solution is highly customizable with provision to include any additional property of the device or network in the discovery process. The hop connectivity discovered helps to generate the layer 2 connectivity present between routers in the network. Whenever, there is configuration change in MPLS network, the discovery process is triggered to ensure that the data displayed is always in sync with that of the network.

  The discovered devices can be arranged in any desired pattern for easy viewing in the client's map view. The VPN topology can be represented in the Hub-and-Spoke, Full-Mesh etc. The map view can be customized further to display focussed view of the service level, network layer, and physical devices such as PEs (Provider Edge Routers) or LSRs.

  VPN Map View

  Network Events View

• MPLS Fault Management

  The WebNMS MPLS Accelerator pack delivers the FCAPS functionality in the most efficient manner. It supports MPLS backbone network infrastructure monitoring through status polling of MPLS network devices with provision for standard traps based notifications from MPLS devices. The solution triggers propagation of fault from physical layer to service layer, and simultaneous update of the map view of indication of failures. This provides insights into the near-real time identification of its effect on services. The WebNMS MPLS pack performs continuous performance metric collection to enable performance report generation and SLA adherence. This also provides utilization reports on core network enable capacity planning and network optimization.

• MPLS Provisioning Management

  The GUI based provisioning wizards facilitate point and click provisioning of MPLS services such as Virtual Private Networks, TE-Tunnels, and QoS. The solution supports template based configuration for multiple devices deployment. Auditing is made simple with MPLS Acclerator pack with options for audit logging for all configuration changes or provisioning actions performed on the MPLS services.

  Configure VPN View

  Configure LSP View

MPLS Services Management Solutions

• MPLS VPN Management

  The WebNMS MPLS Accelarator pack provides a cost-effective way to easily manage the VPN Services. Troubleshooting and monitoring of VPN services ensures that critical data in the form of voice, data, and video is seamlessly trasferred across a MPLS VPN. The downtime of VPN services is reduced considerably as users are notified in case of a link, or node failure, or if the path is optimized. The solution also guarantees secure communication and simplified management of the network. The highlights of the available features in the VPN Management of MPLS Accelerator pack is provided below:

  Highlights:

  • Automatic discovery of VPN services and PseudoWire services
  • Automatic discovery of VPN underlying entities such as VRF, RT, RD, and VPN interfaces
  • Automatic discovery of Access Circuit for Ethernet, FrameRelay, and ATM
  • Pro-active diagnosis of the network to know the effect of device failure and its effect on devices and customers
  • Provisioning of VPN services using GUI templates
  • Topology view of the various VPNs configured
  • End to End service assurance
  • Support for multi-vendor network
  • Support for BGP protocol to discover and monitor the Customer End Node connected to PE

• MPLS TE Management

  Traffic Engineering is essential to ensure high availabilty of the network and also to minimize the effect on customers due to node or link failure. During high burst of traffic, Fast Re-Route(FRR) allows the network to handle the traffic elegantly. The WebNMS MPLS pack provides a comprehensive system for optimized traffic management.

  Highlights:

  • Automatic discovery of Label Switched Path (LSP), Explicit Path, and Hops
  • Relationship mapping between
    • LSP and the devices
    • Path and the LSP
    • Path and Hops
  • Template driven scripts to create Label Switch Path
  • Provisiong for explicit, dynamic routing, and static routing using GUI templates
  • Network topology view as well as individual tunnel view
  • Traffic monitoring
  • Support for trobuleshooting tunnel failure

• MPLS QoS Management

  Service providers offer services that are required to handle voice, video, and data packets. All these packets have various need in relation to bandwidth, jitter, latency and packet loss. The MPLS Accelarator pack tracks the usage and generates graphs which are easily interpretable. This allows the customers and service providers to check if their SLAs are adhered to. The highlights of MPLS QoS Management is provided below.

  Highlights:

  • Complete support for Diffserv architecture
  • Provisioning of Cisco IP SLA
  • Reporting and analying root cause of IP SLA violation
  • Support for Cisco IP SLA

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