Element Management: High Performance Data Management in NMS

Nowadays highly developed, complex technologies are at work where Network Elements (NE) host a range of services such as integrated use of voice, high-speed data, and video. Ongoing technology development, increasing subscriber numbers and network convergence will continue to drive data complexity.

A critical role falls to the Network Management System (NMS). The management and control of Quality of Services (QoS)-oriented technologies need to be guaranteed real-time transparent to the increasing complexity. This applies to a great extent to access equipment such as xDSL devices (ADSL, HDSL, VDSL), where information on the Access Network needs to be consolidated into the holistic Network Management System.

The Versant Object Database enables high-performance data management in the NMS. Complex interrelationships and dependencies within routers and switches can be graphically modeled and stored directly as objects in the database – without troublesome mapping into flat table structures. This reduces software development time, guarantees complete flexibility for future enhancements and expansions and delivers better runtime performance. For maximum performance, the retrieval of data is optimized through unprecedented query capabilities.

Smart management and reliable real-time control is made possible in Network Management Systems, independent of the increasing complexity of the systems. That becomes even more important when you integrate into a complex Umbrella Network Management.

Network Management Systems, Access Networks Management Systems

• Increasing data complexity due to increasing subscriber numbers and network convergence
• Complex interrelationships
• QoS-oriented technologies
• Access equipment such as xDSL devices

Versant Object Database

• High-Performance Data Management
• Designed to handle navigational access
• Optimized data retrieval through unparalleled query capabilities
• Geographic Redundancy