TOLLBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES TOLLVIEWTM AUTOMATED SERVICE ACTIVATION AND PROVISIONING SYSTEM
Voice-over-Broadband Company Announces the First Automated Voice Service Activation and Proactive Provisioning System for Voice Services for a New Generation of CarriersSANTA CLARA, Calif. - January 24, 2000 - TollBridge Technologies, the leading developer of high-quality voice-over-broadband solutions for a new generation of carriers, announced that its products will support flow-through provisioning and proactive dynamic load balancing with hot-swappability from within TollBridge's TollViewTM Management Suite as well as through third-party Operation Support Systems (OSS) solutions. Automating service provisioning has proven to be a key step toward rapid deployment and accelerated revenue recognition for the new voice carriers. Current methods of deploying new services usually involve manual processes that are slow and inefficient. They detect errors reactively instead of preventing them proactively. "Only with consistent end-to-end service provisioning and proactive monitoring, testing, and re-provisioning can carriers bring new services to market that generate a sustainable revenue base," said Agnes Imregh, TollBridge's vice president of marketing. "Providers can instantly activate new services for customers with a single automated process that activates all of the required elements. Increasingly, carriers must manage a complex multi-technology, multi-vendor network. Automatic and proactive monitoring, testing, and re-provisioning for all segments of this network greatly simplifies this task." The TollBridge TollView Element Management System The TollBridge TollView Element Management System provides: - Powerful SLA Monitoring
TollView has a highly efficient speech path, ensuring SLA compliance and guaranteeing toll-quality voice across varying network conditions. Also, TollView features advance notification of alarm thresholds (latency and dropped packets), providing additional feedback to network management personnel, including Performance feedback of Voice Utilization on a per Voice Processor basis.
- Flexible Network Management
The TollVoice solution features Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), telnet and the GR-303 embedded operations channel for flexible network management. Additionally, the command line interface within TollView is accessible direct connected, through the local area network and through the broadband network, greatly increasing network serviceability.
- Dynamic Load Balancing with Hot-Swappability
By monitoring the Voice Processor Utilization Metric on each Voice Module, TollView can apply its own heuristic to automatically re-configure voice paths to voice cards, including newly hot-swapped cards.
- Flow-Through Provisioning
The TollView solution includes Element Operations Center (EOC) support, which facilitates operational procedures and is consistent with standard DLC provisioning and installation processes. This Flow-Through Provisioning feature and the Dynamic Load-Balance feature within the TollView EMS has been exported to other EMSs and Network Management Systems (NMSs) with the new East/West-bound interfaces creating a new automated proactive service deployment process.
- Future-Proofing
Because TollView supports new East/West-bound interfaces with CORBA/XML/JAVA-RMI, new features can be dynamically upgraded with no truck-rolls required and with minimal service interruption.
OSS solutions of today, will be able to connect to the TollView System using conventional North/South-bound interfaces Transport Layer 1 (TL.1), Common Management Interface Protocol (CMIP), and SNMP. In addition, with the new East/West-bound interfaces from CORBA/ JAVA-RMI/ XML to the new next-generation Broadband Element Management Systems, TollBridge customers are enabled to flexibly deliver end-to-end proactive provisioning and fault management. New Voice CLECs which typically adopt OSS solutions that are more distributed and automated with an emphasis on standards, speed, reliability, and scalability with minimal high-skilled personnel, will benefit with this new automated proactive service deployment process from TollBridge to not only quickly deploy services but maintain customers as well. About TollBridge Solutions
Designed to let providers bypass Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) to all deliver voice services over any broadband access technology, the TollBridge product set consists of three elements: - The TB50, an Integrated Access Device (IAD) that converts voice samples from multiple calls into packets and prioritizes voice and data traffic for transmission over any broadband access network;
- The TB200, a carrier-grade Local Exchange Gateway that translates packets back into voice and connects to Class 5 switches using the Telcordia GR-303 protocol and new, emerging protocols such as the Segment Interface protocol (SIP) and Media Gateway Control Point (MGCP);
- The TollViewTM Management Suite, a management system that includes a graphical Element Management System (EMS) for end-to-end configuration, troubleshooting, and performance management of up to 100 TB200 systems from HP OpenViewTM on SUN SolarisTM platforms.
About TollBridge Technologies
Founded in March 1998 and located in Santa Clara, Calif., TollBridge Technologies is the leading provider of voice-over-broadband solutions to a new generation of carriers. TollBridge solutions change the economics of delivering voice services by allowing carriers that own Class 5 switches to use broadband access technologies, such as DSL or cable, to bypass the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) and deliver toll-quality voice and integrated data services. TollBridge and TollVoiceTM are trademarks of TollBridge Technologies, Inc. All other service marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
