Metro-Optix to unveil element management system at SuperComm
Metro-Optix is introducing its CityView Element Management System (EMS) next week at SuperComm 2001 in Atlanta (booth 350/Hall A in the Georgia World Congress Center). CityView is a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use network management companion to the Metro Optix multi-protocol bandwidth manager, CityStreamT. The new product will enable "flow through" service provisioning for carriers migrating to more efficient optical networks. As such, CityView mitigates the management nightmare of getting dissimilar network elements, such as optical fiber to IP/MPLS routers, and ATM switches, to "talk" to each other.
CityView manages TDM and data services in a multi-layer, multi-service network via a Java-based platform with open and flexible architecture and standards. By managing multi-layer services (TDM, ATM, and IP) and interfaces throughout the network, CityView enables service providers to deliver accelerated, seamless end-to-end solutions to their customers.
The CityView EMS is available June 15, 2001, with prices that are flexible and competitive to meet any size network and budget requirements.
The CityView server communicates with the network elements over an IP-based DCN (Data Communication Network), and its clients connect to the CityView server over an IP-based network. Metro-Optix's CityView EMS provides network-wide management of CityStream network elements by supporting the full FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security) functionality, network topology map, end-to-end connection management (TDM, ATM, and IP), inventory management, service profile and policy management, remote memory back-up and restoration, centralized security administration, performance monitoring data management, centralized software download, current and historical alarms management for the entire CityStream network. Using TMN framework and ITU-T standards, CityView provides a standards-based CORBA EMS/NMS interface for SONET, ATM and DWDM.
In other network management news from Metro-Optix, the company has announced that the UNI-C signaling element of its CityStream platform has passed a key test designed to assess a product's capabilities in establishing and terminating optical connections known as virtual circuits and virtual tributaries. In an independent test conducted by Agilent Technologies, CityStream met the UNI-C mandatory requirements established by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) in its OIF2001.152 specification. Metro-Optix is participating in the OIF optical network equipment interoperability demonstration at SuperComm, hosted in booth 150D.
About Metro-Optix:
Metro-Optix is a privately held, optical networking equipment provider that is pioneering a new generation of Internet infrastructure for metropolitan networks. For more information, visit www.metro-optix.com.