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Product Overview
Cisco® Transport Manager is an intelligent, carrier-class element management system (EMS) that efficiently manages the entire Cisco ONS family of optical transport products, which includes traditional time-division multiplexing (TDM) SONET/SDH, Ethernet/IP, and dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) services as well as Cisco MGX® 8880 Media Gateway and voice-enabled Cisco MGX 8850 and MGX 8830 Multiservice Switches.
Cisco Transport Manager supports configuration, fault, performance, and security management and serves as a foundation for integration into a larger operation support system (OSS) environment.
High availability, self-healing processes, and comprehensive management across different types of Cisco devices give service providers and large enterprises a resilient, adaptable, and integrated carrier-class EMS solution.
Features and Benefits
Cisco Transport Manager increases user productivity through a powerful GUI-based management system that makes complex provisioning tasks easy to perform. The Cisco Transport Manager northbound interfaces accelerate integration into the OSS customer environment.
GUI-Based Management For Unparalleled Productivity
Cisco Transport Manager is a powerful GUI-based management system that makes advanced management capabilities such as A-to-Z circuit provisioning easy to learn and use. Its explorer-style navigation and extensive use of wizards, tool tips, legends, and online help allow operators to perform tasks quickly and efficiently. Many otherwise tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone tasks can be fully streamlined using these intuitive tools lowering the cost of network operation (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Cisco Transport Manager GUI-Based Management System
High Availability for Carrier-Class Management
CTM is a complete and rich carrier grade EMS, adding value above and beyond the basic manageability features offered by CTC. One of the key advanced features sets in CTM is the support of high availability configurations. HA has become a must have attribute of any EMS charged with running today's complex networks. High availability deployment configurations are available to provide local and geographic redundancy options. Cisco Transport Manager can cope with heavy load scenarios such as high circuit-transaction rates, performance monitoring data collection, alarm storms, and numerous simultaneous clients (up to 100). Cisco Transport Manager plays a crucial role in the high availability of the network itself. Cisco Transport Manager's fault management and performance management capabilities help to ensure that network problems are discovered quickly and accurately, so they can be addressed often before a customer's service is noticeably affected.
One-Stop Management Solution for Low Cost Of Ownership
Cisco Transport Manager supports optical network technologies, such as SONET/SDH, long haul, and metro DWDM. These technologies are deployed for transport and services such as DS-1/E1, DS-3/E3, 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and storage networking protocols.
By covering all the Cisco ONS Family of products along with Cisco MGX 8880 Media Gateway and voice-enabled Cisco MGX 8850 and MGX 8830 Multiservice Switches, Cisco Transport Manager eliminates the need to deploy multiple technology-specific EMSs, reducing capital and operating expenses.
Cisco Transport Manager can manage both ANSI and ETSI network elements, which is ideal for service providers or large enterprises with an international service area.
Cisco Transport Manager is cost-effective, using industry-standard platforms such as Sun Solaris, Oracle, and Microsoft Windows to fit smoothly into the IT environment of most companies. Its easy installation, smooth administration, and simple user interface also help decrease cost of ownership. Using scalable Sun server platforms, it is possible to minimize up-front investment but still grow the network by gradually adding processors, memory, and disk space.
Northbound Interfaces for Operations Automation
Industry-standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) protocols make Cisco Transport Manager a flexible building block in traditional as well as next-generation OSS infrastructures. Cisco Transport Manager not only captures and stores all relevant information from the optical transport domain, it also makes that information and its management available to higher-layer OSSs using open communications protocols. For example, the TeleManagement Forum-compliant (TMF 814 v3.0) CORBA northbound interface of Cisco Transport Manager facilitates the implementation of the next generation of inventory management, provisioning, flow-through circuit management, and service assurance.
Product Specification
Table 1 lists the product specifications for Cisco Transport Manager Release 9.0.
Table 1. Product Specification
How to Order
To place an order, visit the Cisco ordering homepage. For the latest update of part numbers, please refer to the Cisco Transport Manager product bulletin under the product literature section at http://www.cisco.com/go/ctm.
Service and Support
Cisco offers a wide range of services programs to accelerate customer success. These innovative services programs are delivered through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and partners, resulting in high levels of customer satisfaction. Cisco services help you to protect your network investment, optimize network operations, and prepare the network for new applications to extend network intelligence and the power of your business. For more information about Cisco services, see Cisco Technical Support Services or Cisco Advanced Services.
For More Information
For additional product information on Cisco Transport Manager, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/ctm or contact your local account representative.