NETRAC MEDIATION
NETRAC MEDIATION
PROVEN AND SCALABLE MEDIATION
PLATFORM
Communication Service Providers (CSP) need to rich data processing capabilities, all in accordance with
manage rapidly growing multi-vendor and multi- customer and specific vendor and technology
technology networks that use diverse standards. To requirements.
deliver complex multi-layered services, CSPs need to
adapt to growing and changing network requirements.
TTI TELECOM MEDIATION VALUE
The challenge is even more apparent when one
PROPOSITIONS
considers the requirement to manage Next Generation
Years of experience - TTI Telecom has more
Networks (NGN) that are tightly combined with legacy
than 15 years of experience with mediation in the
networks.
OSS market and the telecom industry worldwide.
TTI Telecom’s Netrac Mediation is a proven platform
Netrac Mediation is considered a reliable and
that is used by many tier-one and tier-two customers
respectable product, within the industry and from
worldwide for various and diverse network technologies
its customers.
such as IP, ATM, FR, IMS, SONET/SDH, CDMA and
Supporting converged and diverse network
GSM. TTI Telecom’s Netrac Mediation is a scalable,
technologies - such as IP, ATM, FR, IMS, SONET/
robust, bidirectional platform that collects data from
SDH, CDMA and GSM and variety of vendors and
the network and sends commands to the network.
protocols; Ericsson, Nokia, Nortel, Alcatel, Cisco,
Netrac Mediation also derives its strength from being
Juniper with SNMP, ASCII, Corb etc.
able to collect data from multiple sources such as
Offering bi-directional connection to the network-
events for alarms, Operational Measurements (OM),
by collecting data from the network and sending
Key Performance Indicators, and xDRs. Data can be
commands to the network.
easily parsed, transformed, formatted, and validated
Fast time to market - Netrac Mediation enables
in order to be stored in a database or sent to external
easy generation of implementation rules (libraries)
applications.
for specific vendors and technologies using a
To ease the implementation, TTI Telecom offers a
powerful and flexible SDK.
Software Development Kit (SDK) that generates
Distributed architecture - enables the system to
implementation rules (libraries) for specific vendors,
grow with the network. Mediation supports an
technologies and service provider needs. The mediation
architecture which is distributed, centralized or
engine is a real-time operation tool that executes these
any combination of the both. Such flexibility enables
vendor and technology specific implementation rules
TTI to support large quantities of data processes
to collect and process data.
such as events, commands and xDR’s.
As a result of these rules, Netrac Mediation is a highly
Ensured persistency - TTI Telecom’s robust Netrac
flexible platform. CSPs use this platform to support
Mediation is designed to collect, handle and
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process enormous number of events and Real time Service Assurance Capailities - Netrac
measurements while ensuring safe delivery of all Mediation enables creating of near real time KPIs and
data. thresholds based on the vendor raw measurements.
This is for further use either within TTI’s performance
system or at any other 3rd party systems.
NETRAC MEDIATION BENEFITS
Converged Networks Support - The robust Netrac
Topology Based/ Configuration Enrichments - Netrac
Mediation enables telecom engineers to manage their
Mediation uses external data sources on top of the
network in a much more efficient manner. This is
raw data that arrives from the Network Elements (NE)
extremely important in rapidly growing multi-vendor,
or Elements Managers (EM). In particular, Netrac
multi-technology and standards-heterogeneous
Mediation uses a Tele-Management Forum (TMF) SID
networks. CSPs using Netrac Mediation are able to
based configuration data model to enrich alarms and
quickly adapt to the growing and changing network
to present performance reports.
requirements, thus manage the Next Generation
Networks (NGN) successfully in combination with
xDR Data Processing - Netrac mediation uses its
legacy networks.
advanced enrichment capabilities to add meaningful
data to the xDRs (CDR, IPDR).
Technology and Vendor Independence - Netrac
mediation enables customers to support variety of
Northbound Integration - Netrac Mediation supports
network element types and technologies, regardless
connectivity to northbound applications according to
of the vendor, the protocol or the domain.
a CSP’s specific needs. Data can be exported as
database records, SNMP traps, XML files or other
Multi Protocol Support - Netrac Mediation supports
ASCII files to be sent, later on, to TTI’s applications
a mixture of protocols and data formats arriving from
or to any other 3rd party applications.
the converged network. Data can be exported from
Netrac Mediation in any format according to the specific
need. Netrac Mediation handles a variety of protocols
TTI TELECOM APPROACH
supported in the market having a dedicated connectivity Powerful Data Processing
method per each vendor or protocol (SNMP plug in, Capabilities
Telnet Plug In, Corba Plug in etc). Netrac Mediation processes the incoming data
according to pre-defined rules (libraries). Each library
Multi Formats Support - The different data sources includes the relevant processes that receive, parse,
can arrive in different data formats. Netrac Mediation transform, enrich, validate and forward the data to the
connectivity and parsing functionalities handle all next relevant assurance application. In addition one
formats. The designated library handles the relevant can add advanced processing capabilities, based on
definitions for the data format and extracts the required market needs and specific technology and vendor
information. context.
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large capacities of data as well the extension to
additional data formats.
Rich Transformation Capabilities - Netrac Mediation
offers rich functionalities of data transformation, data
enrichment and data conversion of the parsed data.
The transform module uses a large set of predefined
functions (such as string, date and math conversion)
Netrac Mediation Processing for Fault Library
and special objects (adding constant values, adding
network and connectivity information, etc.).
Communication Layer Manager - By placing the
communication in a single architecture layer, Netrac
Mediation makes the administration and management
of communication simpler. Using a single
communication layer approach makes additional support
for more protocols easier.
Complex Network Command Scripting Capability -
Netrac Mediation can interact with multi-vendor, multi-
technology networks, executing both NE native
commands and complex scripts. Network Commands
Netrac Mediation Parser Editors
Interface (NCI) module supports network commands
using a rich and interactive language. NCI can send
Distributed Scalable and Flexible
scripts of commands to multiple destinations and
Architecture
applications. Native commands and scripts of
Netrac Mediation offers multi-threaded, distributed
commands can be either scheduled or manually sent
and scalable architecture for a wide variety of platforms.
to the network elements.
Customers can therefore use Netrac mediation in any
type of network regardless of its size and variety.
Powerful Parsing of Data - Netrac Mediation supports
Netrac Mediation distributed architecture enables easy
all kinds of data formats as they arrive from the variety
expansion of the network.
of the vendors and protocols. ASCII data formats
(such as XML, Web-Services, CSV etc) are supported
as well as a variety of binary data formats (such as
ASN.1, AMA, SNMP, NetFlow etc). The processing
of various data formats relies on Netrac Mediation’s
strong parsing infrastructures and is designed to handle
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Netrac Mediation Architecture
C L I E N T A P P L I C AT I O N S
ALARM MONITORING REPORTS DASHBOARD GIS MAPS VIEWS
SERVICE MANAGEMENT APPLICATION
INTERFACES
UNIFIED REPOSITORY | SECURITY || ADMINISTRATION
SERVICE IMPACT
AFFECTED SERVICES AND CUSTOMERS ANALYSIS
NETRAC INFRASTRUCTURE
FA U LT M A N A G E M E N T PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
FaMAPI
C O R R E L AT O R T R S TR A F F I C G U A R D
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS SMART THRESHOLDS
PMMAPI
NETRAC FaM NETRAC PMM
NORMALIZATION | QUALIFICATION DE-DUPLICATION KQI/KPI GENERATION
EXPERT SYSTEM CORRELATION AGGREGATION | ANALYSIS CONFIGURATION
B I - D I R E C T I O N A L A S S U R A N C E M E D I AT I O N IMPLEMENTION
NETRAC MEDIATION TOOLS
AUTO DISCOVERY | COLLECTION | PROCESSING | ENRICHM E N T | XDR CORRECTION NETRAC STUDIO
xDRs Events Collection Commands Logs TCAs
GSM/GPRS 3G VoIP IP ATM SWITCHING SDH/PDH
NETWORK
Easy Creation and Maintenance of
Implementation rules
Vendor Independent SDK - Netrac Studio, TTI’s
Software Development Kit using a business and
telecom-oriented user interface, enables the collection,
processing, deployment and management of the
customer’s converged network in a simple and
straightforward manner. Using Netrac Studio, service
providers are able to easily customize their libraries
and add new network elements and rules independently
Netrac Studio - transform Editor
to their network’s vendor’s support.
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Automatic Development of NGN Libraries - TTI Extensibility - TTI powerful Netrac Mediation
Telecom supplies its customers with two main SNMP enables CSPs to quickly adapt to the frequently
wizards for automatic generation of NGN fault and changing network requirements as they deploy and
performance libraries. Telecom engineers use business manage 3G wireless, IP, and broadband networks
rules, embedded into Netrac Studio in order to along with legacy networks.
automate the creation of SNMP targeted libraries. The Proactive - TTI offers state-of-the-art tools that
SNMP data arrives either by traps or by commands proactively assure quality of service by detecting
for fault and performance usages. Netrac studio creates irregular network and service behavior in real-time
the library implementation rules automatically using and generating Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCA)
standard definitions in order to support alarm generation based on Smart Thresholds.
and performance measurement collection, processing Unified Configuration Management - TTI’s unique,
and presentation. unified configuration layer enables an end-to-end
holistic view of network health, lowers integration
costs and leading to faster and more efficient
problem resolution.
Integrated Assurance Solution – Netrac Mediation
robust capabilities leverages TTI Telecom's Fault,
Performance and Service management solutions
the unified control improves the efficiency and
flexibility of network operations while supporting
Fixed and Mobile networks combining legacy and
NGN technologies.
Netrac Studio- EasySNMP for FaM Wizard
TTI - TELECOM IS OUR BUSINESS
Knowledge and Experience - TTI has years of
telecom related experience. TTI uses this knowledge
and experience to better build and implement service
Multi-vendor - Netrac Mediation solution supports
multi-vendor and multi technology networks,
seamlessly aggregating and correlating data from
multiple vendors and technologies into a unified
and holistic view.
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Partial list of Vendors that TTI support
Adtran Huawei
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Jambala
Avaya Juniper
Broadsoft Kodiak
Ciena Motorola
Cisco NEC
CMG Nokia-Siemens (NSN)
Comverse Nortel
Commworks (3com) RAD
ECI RADCOM
ECTEL Samsung
Ericsson /Marconi Sonus
Fujitsu Tellabs
Glenayre Tekelec
Harris Veraz
HP 3COM
Partial list of protocols that TTI support:
FTP/SFTP SSH
TCP/IP CORBA
X.25 Q3
SNMP FTAM
RS232 MTP
Telnet AFT
TL1 HTTP/S
JMS 3GPP
POP3 SOAP
TFTP
Partial list of formats that TTI support:
Binary ASCII
ASN.1 XML
AMA CSV
SNMP
NetFlow
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TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. (Nasdaq:
TTIL) is a leading provider of next generation
Operations Support Systems (OSSs) to
Communications Service Providers (CSPs)
worldwide. For incumbent and emerging CSPs
in the fixed, mobile and cable markets, we provide
robust OSS solutions that help manage their
networks and services effectively. Our Netrac
product portfolio delivers an automated, proactive
and customer-centric approach to Service
Assurance, including Fault Management,
Performance Management and Service
Management, complemented by network
synchronization and activation. Netrac is
compatible with multiple technologies and industry
standards, and is uniquely positioned to converge
legacy and next-generation networks.
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