Nakina Systems’ Networks OS Powers TM Forum Mobile Backhaul Catalyst
Nakina Systems is providing key technologies supporting the live Mobile Backhaul Management Catalyst project being featured at this year’s TM Forum Management World Americas, November 4-8 in Dallas. Sponsored by Time Warner Cable, the Catalyst project will demonstrate how the Nakina Systems Network OS™ (NOS) solution helps accelerate deployments of wireless backhaul networks by simplifying the integration of higher-level OSS solutions with network equipment from multiple vendors.
The Mobile Backhaul Management Catalyst project will demonstrate how TM Forum Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI) and OSS through Java™ (OSS/J) standards can be used to improve data consistency and simplify OSS integration. This initial phase of the Catalyst project will focus on fault management and inventory collection with the Nakina Network OS™ managing a multi-vendor mobile backhaul network and acting as a single point of integration for industry-leading OSS applications including IBM’s Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ fault solution and Telcordia’s® Granite inventory solution. In addition to IBM and Telcordia, Nakina is working with the following industry leaders who are participating in the Catalyst project: Alcatel-Lucent, BEA, Cisco, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Sun Microsystems.
Video and new 4G services are causing mobile data traffic to surge with revenues growing at near triple digit rates to over $15 billion last year. For cable companies and other service providers who own local access infrastructure, mobile backhaul is a way to get more revenue out of existing resources by leasing excess network capacity to wireless carriers.
“Building out a lot of fiber is expensive and takes time,” says Dan Baker, Senior Analyst at Dittberner Associates, an independent telecom analyst firm. “More than anything else, carriers are looking for the most effective ways to expand nationally and internationally. They’ve already got coverage in their core territories and now they want to expand their footprint in the most practical and cost effective ways. This explains why cable companies with plenty of capacity and infrastructure covering a lot of territory see wireless backhaul as a promising new revenue stream.”
Mobile backhaul networks have now become an industry focal point because they represent both the highest cost and the biggest bottleneck to delivering next-generation, high-speed wireless data services. The inherently diverse nature of cell site environments requires that the most cost-effective means of reaching each base station be deployed. The result is a complex mix of legacy and next-generation technologies and equipment from multiple different vendors, all of which needs to be managed cost-effectively as a single network.
”In the backhaul business, cable operators need a practical way to pull together multiple vendor platforms,” explains Jonathan Anderson, VP Network Operations at Time Warner Cable, who works on corporate network operations and OSS strategy. “The need for robust, flexible and open platforms is critical. That is why Time Warner Cable is exploring how industry standards like the TM Forum’s MTOSI and OSS/J can help to provide the ability to manage multiple vendor platforms and EMSs for cell backhaul through a single management interface.”
“The Nakina Network OS hides the complexity of the different technologies and vendors’ equipment below it, offering a single interface to higher level back office OSS/BSS systems,” said Mary O’Neill, Vice President of Market Development at Nakina Systems. “This universal mediation and abstraction function helps service providers roll out their next-generation infrastructure and services much faster and provides a platform that more and more software vendors, system integrations and equipment vendors are adopting and building upon.”
Nakina Systems will again have a strong presence at this year’s TM Forum Management World (TMW) Americas, the premier conference for the OSS industry. Complementing the Mobile Backhaul Catalyst project and solution demonstrations in its Booth 208, Nakina will also be hosting an exclusive breakfast seminar on managing Carrier Ethernet on Wednesday, November 7th with panelists from Time Warner Cable, Juniper Networks and Dittberner Associates. In addition, Telstra, IBM Corporation, and Nakina Systems will speak on the topic of using the latest industry standards to deliver flexible, open, service-oriented management solutions.
About Nakina Systems
Nakina provides one platform to discover, secure and manage multi-vendor networks. Using Nakina’s software, service providers expedite the rollout of next-generation services with a single management solution that configures and manages any vendor’s networking products. As a single point of integration between the network and higher-level management applications, the Nakina Network OS™ reduces operating expenses, bolsters identity management security, and improves workflow productivity by automating operations like software upgrades, backup and restore, discovery, fault, performance and configuration management. And it’s all with one system. Only from Nakina.
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