Oct 22 2009
Groundbreaking New Pro-Vision Software Leverages Industry Leading OptiSwitch Product Family to Maximize Intelligent Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Deployments
MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC., today announced Pro-Vision®, a comprehensive provisioning and network management software platform for simplified deployment and proactive management of carrier Ethernet network devices. MRV is a leading networking company with a full line of packet-optical transport (P-OTS), carrier Ethernet, 40G networking and out-of-band networking products.
In order to maintain a competitive edge, today’s carriers need to be able to support the ever-changing demands of existing customers all while adding new customers and services in an efficient manner. The ability to quickly roll out new service offerings from a central location allows service providers to quickly react to market changes for new high bandwidth network services and market pricing fluctuations enhancing customer loyalty and reducing customer churn. The innovative Pro-Vision network management software provides service providers and carriers of any size and footprint with the tools needed to maximize their equipment investments and streamline everyday network operations.
“Today’s networks are constantly evolving and carriers need a way to monitor the varying devices throughout the network,” said Noam Lotan, chief executive officer of MRV Communications. “The Pro-Vision platform is a game-changer for forward thinking carriers who can leverage this provisioning flexibility to streamline network management and deployment, positioning themselves for the next generation of advanced services being demanded by their customers.”
The Pro-Vision software platform is GUI-based and allows service provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting tasks to be performed from an easy to use, centrally located network management application. The software provides the ability for pre-define individual service profile components which can be used to easily build new services offerings efficiently, reducing time to revenue.
Auto-discovery functionality allows Pro-Vision to quickly and easily locate all OptiSwitch devices on the network and add the devices to the network. Pro-Vision takes a detailed inventory of all devices, ports, interfaces and Ethernet virtual connections (EVC) and provides network operators with a graphical definition of management domains, customers, and services. Pro-Vision complements MRV’s industry leading OptiSwitch 900 series of service demarcation units including the OS904, OS906, OS910, OS910-M, OS912 and OS930 with an easy to use point-and-click interface.
The Pro-Vision platform can expand to encompass end-to-end provisioning and management for all MRV Carrier Ethernet demarcation and transport devices including all OptiSwitch 900 demarcation series and the OptiSwitch 9000 metro aggregation series.
"As carrier Ethernet services increasingly extend across access, metro and long haul networks and across multiple types of network equipment, carriers are looking for provisioning and management software that will also extend across the end-to-end Ethernet network,” said Sterling Perrin, senior analyst at Heavy Reading. “MRV's Pro-Vision puts the company in an excellent position to meet these new carrier requirements."
The Pro-Vision software platform supports Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) standards-based operations, administration and support (OAM) features to ensure service level agreements (SLA) are being met. By supporting an extensive array of OAM tools, MRV's Pro-Vision software enables end-to-end service visibility, connectivity fault management and performance measurements of defined SLAs. Scalable to support very large networks, Pro-Vision supports high availability features for critical production networks.
Utilizing the fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security (FCAPS) model, Pro-Vision can provide network operators with detailed connectivity and performance information allowing for proactive network management and troubleshooting in the event of a network error.
Pro-Vision also provides multi-level security for individual users with use-based views and actions. The software includes authorization schemes with support for users, groups, roles operations and object views. With user audit trails, the Pro-Vision software provides SNMPv3, IPv6, SSHv2 standard compliant secure transport for a fully protected user experience.
The Pro-Vision software provides multiple views including physical network configuration, logical path configuration, network alarms and performance monitoring. Each view offers customized labeling, sort, criteria and filters for each service type. Pro-Vision supports a variety of computing platforms and operating systems including Windows, Linux and Solaris, providing visibility from virtually any network browser.
Source: http://www.mrv.com/