Resource Management and Planning
Understanding and managing changing network inventory plays a critical role in operator’s ability to focus on their operational and capital efficiency and to quickly introduce new services and technologies. Unfortunately, most network inventories used today are expensive and difficult to maintain to the high standards of precision and accuracy required by communications service providers.
By seamlessly integrating resource management and planning within the Service Fulfillment Solution Suite, Kabira can now provide its clients with up-to-date and detailed end-to-end network resource models for all their wireless, packet-switched and circuit-switched networks. The planning, maintenance and capacity management of both physical and virtual network resources is fully integrated, simplifying complex processes and making it easier to run and improve critical operations.
With integrated resource management and planning comprehensive service fulfillment solution, enabling wireless and broadband service providers to reduce implementation costs while accelerating time-to-market for new services. With integrated resource management and planning the Kabira Service Fulfillment Solution Suite gives communications service providers with the ability to cost effectively do the following thereby lowering the cost of growing new services:
- Physical inventory, planning and provisioning
- The built-in sophisticated search tools facilitate the retrieval of reliable network information.
- Location data, with links to external documents
- Record critical site information including addresses, rental agreements, and access to the site.
- End-to-end circuit design and management
- User-friendly GUIs provide dynamically generated circuit displays for multi-vendor, multi-protocol networks for any network model and different technologies such as DWDM, SDH, PDH, ATM, VPN, xDSL and IP etc.
- Capacity and bandwidth usage
- Manage circuit status and assignment of capacity. User-defined models can be made available for capacity provisioning of any transmission type.
- Logical network design
- Create a logical model of the circuit-carrying capability of your network, including mapping logical channels, routes, connections, protection schemes, etc.
- Spare & faulty parts management
- Record the location and details of network spare parts and faulty equipment through the creation of storage cabinets, rooms and "repair baskets".
