TCMIS is a solution for any kind of basic Telecom Service provider, which has heterogeneous telecom switches in their network. In earlier days where all the switches were of the same technology / vendor, there was no need for a solution like this. For such a scenario, the manufacturer of the switches was able to provide Network Management Solution. Day-by-day the number of technologies of the switch increased and thus the complexity for the Network Manager also increases.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Mediation Device (MD) is located at each Exchange building connecting to multiple switches within the same building on RS-232 port/ Dial-up / Leased MODEM link/X.25 link.

FrontEndIO System (FEIO) is located at central NMS site, which interacts with multiple Mediation Devices. It acts as a buffering system between Mediation Device and NMServer.

NMServer (NMS) is the heart of TCMIS and it schedules the generic commands to be issued to the switches and maintains the processed data in a standard RDBMS.

RepTerm is a system from which day-to-day MIS reports can be viewed. In addition to the standard reports available, the operator/user can build customized reports using GenRep tool.

MAPTerm is the system that presents the health of the total telecom network in terms of Nodes (Switches) and Links (Trunk Groups).

The telecom network performance attributes like ASR, ABR, %Outage, Traffic in Erlangs are displayed for each entity.

SALIENT FEATURES

• Switch Access Modules for heterogeneous switches from ALCATEL's E10B & OCB-283, AT&T's 5ESS & Ericsson's AXE-10.
• Generic Commands to Switch Technology specific command Translation at Mediation Device
• Switch specific data to generic data conversion at
• Central NM Server Centralized Command Scheduler
• Data collection from switch through command interactive, periodic and spontaneous sessions.
• Daily Reports to Network Manager on the faults of telecom resources like Circuits, PCM links, Tone Registers, etc.
• MIS Reports for New Levels Addition, Network Augmentation and Routing Anomalies to planning cell.
• Quick-Look Display of Geographical MAP Terminal showing the status of 'Links' and 'Nodes'.
• Conforming to the guidelines specified in TEC specifications for Local Network Management System GR No: G/LNM-01/02.FEB2000, referring to ITU-T standards for Telecom Management Network.

HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE

UNIX based Dual-Processor, RAID-5 HDD based SERVER for NM Server, UNIX based Desktop systems for MD and FEIO and Windows based Desktop systems for RepTerm and MapTerm systems.