Ciena: CatenaView

From Devwiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Ciena makes transport and switching equipment (CoreStream, CoreDirector) that increases the capacity of long-distance fiber-optic networks by transmitting multiple light signals simultaneously over the same circuit. It also sells transport systems for metro and enterprise wide-area networks, as well as broadband access products that enable communications companies to deliver Internet protocol (IP) services, such as Voice over IP (VoIP), IP video, and DSL. Ciena serves telecom service providers, cable companies, large enterprises, and government entities.

Contents

[hide]

[edit] Objectivity Case History

This page needs expansion. Please update it and remove this banner when all fields are complete.

[edit] Important

This information is an archive, so any use of the present sense in the text should be taken in the historical context, generally determinable from the Status section below.

[edit] Customer Information

[edit] Status

  • First Contact:
  • Lead came from: Telemanagement Forum meeting.
  • Evaluation Start Date:
  • Evaluation Finish Date:
  • First Purchase Date:
  • Deployment Date: 2003?
  • Current Status: Deployed in all four main carriers in the USA.
  • Can we talk about this customer and the product/project? Yes
  • Referenceable?: Yes

[edit] Environment

  • Hardware: Sun and Intel
  • Operating System: Solaris deployment / Windows development
  • Precision: 32-bit
  • Development language: C++
  • Compiler: OS vendor's.
  • Third Party vendor tools:
  • Open Source tools:

[edit] The Project/Product

[edit] Project Background

Catena Networks selected Objectivity/DB for CatenaView. Ciena acquired Catena networks in 2004. They provide this capability to Verizon and BellSouth.

[edit] Project/Product Description

CatenaView EMS is a carrier-class Element Management System (EMS) for managing the voice, data, and video services of all Ciena Broadband Access Systems in the CNX-5 product family from a central remote location. Central operation greatly simplifies network management and reduces capital and operational costs. Remote service activation enables service providers to respond quickly to demands for broadband service.

CatenaView EMS provides full FCAPS and OAM&P functionality. An easy to use, standard GUI, template-based bulk provisioning or flow-through provisioning, and real time or pre-provisioning of components enable rapid service activation without the need for additional hardware or costly field service calls.

CatenaView EMS architecture scales easily to tens of thousands of managed lines and features multi-threading to provide concurrent processing of simultaneous network events.

  • For small networks, the CatenaView EMS can be deployed in a standalone configuration, with the Central Server, Agent, and GUI Client installed on one platform.
  • For larger or rapidly growing networks, the CatenaView EMS can be deployed in a distributed configuration with the three components installed on different platforms. Agents can be added to manage multiple networks.

Highlights:

  • Deployed in all four RBOC networks
  • Scalability targets:
    • > 10,000 network elements
    • > 2 million subscribers
    • > 100 simultaneous users
    • > Support standalone and distributed server configurations
  • Database storage of incongruous data types:
    • Object-oriented network element components
    • Simple records such as
      • Transaction / user logs
      • Historical faults / alarms

[edit] Buying Criteria

[edit] Business Priorities

[edit] Technical Priorities

  • Performance and throughout with complex data
  • Reliability

[edit] Competitors/Alternatives

  • We believe they've tried to move off to SQL Server without any joy.

[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity

  • Performance.
  • Scalability.

[edit] Partners

  • None


[edit] Collateral

  1. Press Releases:
  2. Fliers:
  3. White Papers:
  4. Case Study:
  5. Other:
    1. "Objectivity/DB helps deliver a flexible, reliable, high-performance EMS solution that enables our customers to accelerate their time to market for broadband services." - Chris Dodunski, Product Manager.
    2. Catena talk at WorldView 2005

[edit] Contact Information

  • Objectivity Rep:
  • Customer Contact:
  • Customer Phone:
  • Customer Email:
  • URL:

[edit] External Links

[edit] Related Pages

[edit] Categories

Retrieved from "http://devwiki.objy.com/objywiki/index.php/Ciena:_CatenaView"