…Graphical User Interface (GUI) and unified management model, allow personnel to monitor and manage new Ciena technologies and services while leveraging current back-office Network Operations Center (NOC) systems. The optional ON-Center Service Layer Manager (SLM) provides end-to-end service-level monitoring…

…service assurance. ON-Center will provide a single management platform that maximizes the flexibility of the intelligent network. With this management system, our customers will be able to control the growing cost of operating and managing optical networks while delivering the real-time services and support…

…and web-based customer network management that provides Service Level Agreement (SLA) verification and service monitoring capability to the end-user. The distributed, scalable ON-Center NCS architecture is versatile enough to be purchased separately, can manage its network of elements independently…

…communications, between network components, providing control, management and performance monitoring. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) An IETF protocol for monitoring and managing systems and devices in a network. The data being monitored and managed is defined by a Management Information Base (MIB…

…combined transport and data management including real-time and historic performance graphs for all statistics; network monitoring and proactive fault isolation; and end-to-end circuit provisioning and monitoring * Auto-discovery of all managed network elements and network topology with exportable inventory…

…Size IMD Intermodulation Distortion IME Interface Management Entity IMT Inter Machine Trunk IN Intelligent Network I-NET Institutional Network INM Integrated Network Manager INMS Integrated Network Management Suite; Integrated Network Management System INT Internal; Internal Clock INTAP Interoperability…

…Background • As networks and the equipment they are built on increasingly deliver converged packet-optical capabilities, it is resulting in new challenges for Network Operations Centers (NOCs) that now require tools to manage multiple service layers from a single system. • Network operators are also…

Ciena® Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that it has become a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). With a steady increase in the adoption of Ciena’s Adaptive WAN solution among healthcare organizations, including UC…

…SONET/SDH/OTN GR-253; SR-1/2, ITU-T G.693: VSR2000-3R2/3R3/3R5 Link Parameters System BER < 10E-15 Network Management EMS Supported by ON-Center® Network and Service Management Suite Simultaneous network management from a single ON-Center terminal CSDT CoreStream Designer Tool for comprehensive…

…and Network Management Standards-based CORBA IDL interfaces TMN-based architecture and information     models TL-1 craft interface for operational familiarity IP over DCC/GCC extensions for management     of subtended network elements 5430 Node Manager for GUI…