Advanced Network Management System

ANMS is a state-of-the-art element management system, providing comprehensive management and monitoring for ADSL DSLAM-s, including Siemens XPressLink V2, V3, Hix 5625/5635, Alcatel Fastmux 2000, Ericsson EDA, ECI HiFOCUS. Since its first release in 2000, the system has proven its scalability, versatility and maturity on the ADSL service of several thousands of subscribers at Magyar Telekom, the premier wireline provider in Hungary.

ANMS in itself delivers the integrated functionality of configuration, technical inventory, alarm and performance management, including support for basic customer data as well. This is complemented by its fault-tolerant system architecture and secure, feature-rich operator authentication, authorization and auditing (AAA) mechanisms.

As a consequence of its novel approach and architecture, the efficiency and usability of ANMS is underlined by the right-hand-size-highlighted features.

Key Feature of ANMS 4:

• Drastically reduced polling load on devices: to improve user experience in term of responsiveness, and also to reserve network bandwidth, the status of the entire network is tracked primarily through signals generated by the devices themselves.
  
  
• Batch processing: command scripts can be created or generated (e.g. using data exported from other operation support systems) and executed or scheduled for later or repeated execution.
  
  
• Provisioning en-masse: due to the support of “range” parameters on most ANMS commands, it is possible to execute thousands of configuration steps with a single command.
  
  
• Key customer management: the severity designation of alarms received may be specific for individual connections, thus enabling priority processing for alarms on services used by the most valuable accounts.
  
  
• Full-feature and Open application programming interface: ANMS has an open interface towards higher-level management systems. All implemented system functions are accessible though this interface (dslam parameters, structures, line parameter, maximum line capability changes in time, etc). Self- or zero-touch provisioning, VIP customer portals, etc. can all be implemented through this unified API (current out-of-the-box integrations: Telecordia Xng, Agilent NETExpert, Fornax WFMS).
  
  
• Proactive fault management: unified alarm categories defined for all managed interfaces, filtering and suppression of redundant / consequential alarms, adjustable severity by alarm type, device, interface card or individual connection. Among other things, this can be used to configure priority monitoring for selected services.
  
  
• Auditing: comprehensive logging of all system events, including alarms, device status changes, inventory changes, operator commands, and command execution results. Significant changes to ADSL line parameters are also recorded (instant changes, not caused by user interaction are also logged).
  
  
• Security: the system and the underlying services are protected through the sophisticated security system, which includes authorization, authentication, auditing and optional encryption of communication. Capability to work with central LDAP server.