Alcatel-Lucent

1350 OMS Optical

Management System
Unified optics management to accelerate
ROI and improve OPEX

The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 Optical Management

System (OMS) centralizes multiple network-management functions in one unified management system
for the entire Alcatel-Lucent Optics portfolio. With
a component-based architecture, it easily scales to
meet network growth and development, offering
a single system with single integration points for
multiple optical-network technologies and reducing OPEX. This multi-technology platform, with
extensive and proven Operations Support System
(OSS) integration, supports traditional, circuit-based
networks while enabling a seamless evolution to
an Alcatel-Lucent Optics, packet-based network.
Accelerate ROI and improve OPEX by providing a
fast track to network transformation.

Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS Optical Management System

The network transformation challenge

New packet-based services and applications are forcing service providers
to transform their optical networks
while simultaneously supporting and
evolving existing services and business models. The need to accelerate
time-to-service must be balanced
against requirements for reducing
both operating expenditure (OPEX)
and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Centralizing provisioning and assurance offers reduced OPEX and
TCO, while rapid integration of new
technologies accelerates return on
investment (ROI).

The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS has a comprehensive set

of applications to manage many optical technologies,
including connectivity services based on Ethernet,
Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switching (T-MPLS),
SDH/SONET and wavelength division multiplexing
(WDM) technologies. The software lets you centralize
multiple network-management functions into one
integrated platform (see Figure 1). Simplify your SDH,
SONET and optical Ethernet transport network
operations while transforming to service-oriented,
next-generation networks (NGNs).

Figure 1. Integrating network management on one platform

Any network transformation needs

to support residential broadband,
managed business networks, industry
and public sector services, leased line
and mobile backhaul. It must support
both traditional and next-generation
technologies and multiple generations of both network and OSS
technology. The system must manage
networks ranging from small start-up
networks, through medium-to-large
networks, to huge multinational
networks and the networks
may be circuit-based, packet-based
or both.

Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS

One integrated platform

Reduced TCO
OSS integration

Reduced
operations
expenses

Faster return
on investment
Operations
excellence
Service
provisioning
velocity

Network
transformation

Faster service
restoration

Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS Optical Management System

Bottom-line benefits
Faster ROI
The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS is
a multi-technology platform with
extensive and proven OSS integration. This integration offers the rapid
rollout of new capabilities and new
technologies into the existing network, improving the ROI by months
when compared to introducing a
new overlay management system.
The single platform for multiple
technologies can reduce training
costs by more than 50 percent per
technology by shrinking the learning
curve and training for new capabilities and technologies. The uniform
approach to managing the network
means new capabilities and technologies can be added seamlessly
alongside traditional components.
The operations staff will be familiar
with the operations processes.
Management of the entire network
from a single point allows you to
evolve the network segment by
segment at a pace designed to meet
your business case.

Simplified operations
for reduced OPEX
Continually enhancing, simplifying
and automating operations offers
reduced OPEX for managing the
network. The Alcatel-Lucent 1350
OMS provisioning wizard can reduce
the number of key clicks involved
in provisioning by more than 75%.
This wizard and the accompanying
operational templates offer enhanced
workflow tools to reduce both the
mistakes and time involved with
repetitive and regular provisioning.
By replacing multiple technologyspecific systems with a single system,
service-assurance OPEX is reduced.
The improved graphical user interface (GUI) is engineered and
customizable for enhancing the
user experience and improving ease
and speed of use. This GUI offers a
layered network view that makes it
visually easy to identify network per-

formance and issues, cutting problem

identification time and improving
customer satisfaction. Integrated fault
management with layered network
views allows network outages and
their impacts to be rapidly and correctly identified, reducing truck rolls
and improving network up-time.
Cross-technology service restoration saves time and improves restoration accuracy. Field-hardened
interfaces provide flow-back, flowover and flow-through management,
allowing Alcatel-Lucent Zero Touch
management where supported by
the OSS ecosystem.

Features
Improved, technology-layered GUI with packet-provisioning wizard
and operational templates
Extensive interface support:
Open standards-based interfaces: TMF MTNM, ASCII, SNMP
Customizable proprietary interfaces: Ioo, Isn, TIM, DET
Support for Alcatel-Lucent next-generation optics:
Packet optical
Packet microwave
Alcatel-Lucent Zero Touch Photonics

Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS Optical Management System

Lower TCO due to flexible,

component-based platform
The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS uses a component-based
architecture that easily scales with the network as it
grows and develops. This architecture allows AlcatelLucent to provide a single system with single integration
points for multiple optical network technologies and all
network sizes. Equivalent technology-specific solutions
would require four or five separate systems. The single
set of interfaces offers a potential 50-percent reduction
in integration costs.
This integration greatly reduces management TCO by
providing extensive interface support and experience.
It also allows rapid testing and integration between the
OSS components as they are upgraded. Proven OSS
integration provides full support for new capabilities as
rapidly as the wider OSS/Business Support System (BSS)
ecosystem is able to support them (see Figure 2).

Figure 2. Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS in the management layer

OSS/BSS
layer

Application
layer
Service
fulfillment

Service
assurance

Inventory
database

Billing

CRM

Service and
network control

Management
layer
Flow back
Flow through
Flow over

1350 OMS

Management
control

Network

Microwave

WDM

Zero Touch
Photonics

Intelligent
packet-aware
devices

MSPPs

Traditional
SDH/SONET

Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS Optical Management System

Streamlined operations provide a 75 percent

reduction in key clicks for provisioning Ethernet

End-to-end management
The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS offers element management, network management and service
management in one integrated package. Management starts with the network elements (NEs) providing:
Robust management interfaces
Configurable architectures for resilience, protection and availability
Performance Monitoring (PM) capabilities
Configurable alarm and event notification
Element management provides the foundation for accelerating ROI, by rapidly supporting
new technologies. The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS delivers full element management across the
entire managed network including a map of the total network with physical topology view and a
single filterable list of all of the alarmed parameters. It is invaluable in managing the complete
Alcatel-Lucent Optics portfolio, as seen in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Alcatel-Lucent Optics portfolio managed by Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS

Active portfolio

Next-generation network
Packet microwave
Packet optical
Zero Touch
Photonics
1830 PSS-1
1692 MetroSpan
Edge

9500 MPR
1850 TSS-3
1850 TSS-5

MSPPs Photonics
OXC
Submarine
Microwave

1642 EM/C
1643 AM/AMS
1645 AMC

1665 DMXExplore

1665 DMXtend
1665 DMX

1660 SM
1662 SMC
1650 SMC
1663 ADMu

1830 PSS-32
1850 TSS-40
1850 TSS-100
1850 TSS-160

1626 LM

1620 LM
1625 LambaXtreme
1671 SC
1696 MetroSpan 1675 LambaUnite MSS
1696 ROADM
1678 MCC

1850 TSS-320
1655 AMU
1640 FOX
1650 SM
1666-5 5SR
1670 SM

AM1
MSPPs

ISA-ES 1/4
ISA-ES 16
ISA-ES 64

ADM 4/1
ADM 16/1
ADMC

Phase LXC 4/1

Phase LXC 16/1 1641 SX
1664 SX
BWM
1674 LG
DACS 4/4/1

PFE
OLS 1.6T

ISM
1610 OA
SLM
1651 SM/SMOP Phase ADM 4/4
1631 FOX
Phase ADM 16/4
TDM 10G 1641 SM/SMCP
1651 SMC
Phase LR4
1661
SMC/SMCOP
1641 SMT
Phase LR16
1664 SM
Phase TDM 4/4
1664 OA

1640 WDM
1686 WM

Microwave

1322 NXS RL
946 LUX 9600 LSY
96MM1T 9600 LPS
96MMNT 9600 USY
96HR1T 946 LUX50
96HM1T 9400 AWY
96HMNT 9500 MXC
96HRNR
96HRNT
1694 EON
1965 WSM

Photonics
and submarine

SONET and SDH

Legacy portfolio

The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS uses a common desktop, login and security; common GUI and maps; common fault
management; and common PM. The Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS provides the capability to start and stop applications
independently, and is available in compact or distributed configurations. There are High Availability options with
N:M protection scheme and load balancing.
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Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS Optical Management System

Support for network transformations

With support for multiple technologies, multiple services, all network sizes,
all network generations and all business models, the Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS
provides a unique optical-management experience. Alcatel-Lucent has more
than 15 years of experience developing and honing procedures and tools for
integrating and migrating service-provider networks and the surrounding OSS
ecosystems. Management-systems experience with more than 1000 customers
allows the Alcatel-Lucent 1350 OMS to complement and enhance the optics
NEs and support service providers as they transform their networks.

Recognized world
leader in optical
networking
Alcatel-Lucent delivers end-toend communications solutions to
service providers and enterprises
anywhere in the world. Leveraging
its network equipment as well as
services, Alcatel-Lucent facilitates
its customers service offerings and
revenue streams. As the recognized
world leader in optical networking,
Alcatel-Lucent is in a unique position to help service providers navigate
through current market conditions.
Alcatel-Lucent, with its global reach
and scale, combined with local presence in over 130 countries, makes use
of a deep understanding of globalmarket dynamics, as well as the ability
to anticipate local requirements.

Visit us at www.Alcatel-Lucent.com.

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