NetCracker SDN Solution Brochure

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sdn Solution Business Challenge NetCracker’s BSS/OSS for SDN is a solution that is optimized for SDN adoption and monetization. Pre-integrated with SDN, it provides centralization of infrastructure management and seamless data sharing for network management operations such as capacity planning and forecasting. It enables a seamless order orchestration for service fulfillment and IT service configuration. It facilitates fault, problem, and incident correlation to service outages and customer impact analysis, and unified business activity monitoring, analysis, and reporting capabilities.

As CSPs look to virtualization and the implementation of new architectural approaches to drive enhanced efficiency and management of their network and data-center infrastructures, Software Defined Networks (SDN) have become the key to unlocking the promised technology and business benefits.

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BSS/OSS has a critical role to play in this virtualization of the infrastructure. CSPs can’t derive the stated SDN benefits without:

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SDN, which is a new architectural approach to network configuration, decouples the control plane from the data plane, virtualizes the network and IT infrastructure, enables the dynamic scale of network and IT resources, provides higher network and IT asset and service utilization, and presents dynamically configurable QoS and SLA. These benefits help CSPs lower CapEx and OpEx, while providing greater flexibility and control of their rapidly converging infrastructure.

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A wide variety of factors — from the growing complexity of traditional network management (arising from limited vendor interoperability and proprietary protocols) to growing traffic volumes — have contributed to increased OpEx and CapEx for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) during a time of limited budgets and increased spending cuts. At the same time on the IT infrastructure side, the growth in data-centers, cloud-based infrastructure, and applications is driving the need for virtualization and higher requirements for security and scalability.

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Details NetCracker’s BSS/OSS solution provides three key scenarios for SDN deployment and management: Network Infrastructure Management, Virtual Network Sharing, and SDN-Based Data Center Management.

■ ■ Network infrastructure Management Network Infrastructure Management facilitates the management of SDNbased networks and ensures centralization of inventory data and management across multi-technology networks as well as across multi-vendor SDN deployments. The solution includes: ■■ Resource Inventory for graphical network visualization ■■ Resource Activation for equipment and resource activation ■■ Configuration Management for automatic network configuration ■■ Discovery & Reconciliation for automatic topology discovery and representation ■■ Network Planning & Design for forecasting, extension management, and network build-out

■ ■ Virtual network sharing Virtual Network Sharing provides service fulfillment, assurance, and infra-structure management for SDN-based network infrastructure as well as ensures QoS and billing management for VNOs (virtual network operators). The solution includes: ■■ Revenue Management for VNOs’ billing and payment management ■■ Customer Management for VNO customer information management and customer service assurance ■■ Service Fulfillment for service configuration, provisioning, and activation of SDN-based networks ■■ Service Assurance for QoS and SLA Management for SDN-based services ■■ Inventory Management for network visualization, modeling, and centralization ■■ Configuration Management for automatic network configuration ■■ Discovery & Reconciliation for automatic discovery and synchronization ■■ Network Assurance for problem and event management, analysis, and reporting

■ ■ SDN-based data center Management SDN-Based Data Center Management p ­ rovides cloud service provisioning on top of SDN-enabled data centers as well as SDN infrastructure management.The solution includes: ■■ Revenue Management for billing and payment management of Data Center users ■■ Customer Management for Data Center customer information management and customer assurance ■■ Service Fulfillment for cloud services ■■ Resource Inventory for graphical network visualization ■■ Configuration Management for automatic network configuration ■■ Discovery & Reconciliation for automatic discovery and representation ■■ Service Assurance for QoS, SLA, and problem management, oversubscription management, analysis, and reporting

benefits NetCracker’s SDN Solution provides: ■■ Monetization of virtual network resources

■■ Higher network and IT asset and service

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by providing Network-as-a-Service with

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network fault and problem management coupled with customer impact analysis

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