SAN JOSE, CA., September 16, 2002 - Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced several new domain managers, part of its Internet OSS product portfolio, designed to enable service providers to activate services faster while increasing productivity and lowering network operations and maintenance costs. The new domain managers include: Cisco Mobile Wireless Center, Cisco Broadband Access Center and Cisco Packet Telephony Center.
These new domain managers, which take advantage of the growing portfolio of Cisco element managers and Programmable Network CNS engines, provide network- and service-management functions to enhance time to revenue and OpEx reduction for service providers. Specifically, they focus on provisioning, service-level monitoring and service-level accounting functions, and can be used as a standalone application or serve as a subsystem for independent software vendors, systems integrators or customers to easily integrate into existing OSS infrastructures.
"By enabling flow-through provisioning from the command line to the network element, the Cisco Mobile Wireless Center Domain Manager automates manual steps in the RAN transport network operations, thus reducing errors and OpEx costs while at same time providing more centralized provisioning control," said Tom Shirley, vice president and general manager of the Operational Systems Support Division (OSSD) of Motorola's Global Telecommunications Solutions Sector (GTSS).
The Cisco Mobile Wireless Center (MWC) domain manager provides specific tools and services to support mobile wireless deployment, such as flow-through provisioning of Radio Access Network (RAN) transport networks built on Cisco hardware.
The Cisco Broadband Access Center (BAC) domain manager provides a single management system for all access technologies, including cable, DSL, T1, broadband aggregation and VoIP over Ethernet.The Cisco Packet Telephony Center (PTC) domain manager, which provides voice network management to help accelerate packet-voice service deployment, now supports new call agents and gateway devices. By automating management, Cisco PTC helps to simplify network management and reduce costs by easily integrating with new VoIP networks so they will co-exist with the public switched telephone network.
"Our new domain managers further extend our Internet OSS IP-centered philosophy by continuing to put more intelligence into the network infrastructure," said Anson Chen, vice president and general manager, Intelligent Network Services Management Business Unit at Cisco Systems. "By driving more intelligence into the device-management systems, service providers can automate many processes that help them lower operations costs while also offering differentiated, value-added services to their customers that drive greater profitability."
In addition to these three new domain managers, the Cisco domain manager suite also includes the Cisco VPN Solution Center, a carrier-class network- and service-management solution to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver IP VPN services. More than 100 service providers already have deployed this domain manager in their networks. It currently supports Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and IPSec VPN.
Pricing and availability
The new domain managers are available now. Pricing depends on number of units (CPE, routers/switches, subscribers or broadband access lines) and ranges from $25K into the millions of dollars for the most complex installations.
