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THE HEART OF YOUR BUSINESS
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| Amdocs OSS Network Inventory and Network Discovery is the market's leading telecom inventory, managing network and service capacity by maintaining a complete and accurate model of all services and resources. Amdocs' network and IT inventory software supports all network and IT technologies, devices and services from both a physical and logical perspective. Our inventory model is built using an abstraction layer, which means any service, technology or vendor can be modeled quickly and consistently. And Amdocs’ discovery and reconciliation ensures that this model accurately represents the state of the live network.
The starting point for all operational functions is visibility and accuracy – if you don't know what you have and where it is, you can't do anything with it. Even the smallest provider will have many millions invested in their networks and for the largest, these networks are immensely complex. Only by having an accurate model of the network can costs be minimized, and services delivered quickly and accurately to give customers the kind of experience that they demand.
Consolidate with our comprehensive and future-proof inventory
Technical data about your network may be spread across multiple databases, spreadsheets and reports. Inevitably this makes it outdated, inaccurate and inaccessible. The Amdocs OSS Resource Manager is designed to store telecom network information and rigorously enforce the interdependencies between related elements. Physical device modeling drills down to the individual card and port level. Air-conditioning, and power and space constraints can be associated with any vendor equipment. To reduce time to deploy, Amdocs provides pre-configured models for most common transmission technologies, such as Ethernet, SDH, ATM and IP, showing logical connectivity across the network. Relationships between physical and logical elements are maintained.
This complex and detailed information can be viewed by engineering and planning staff in a variety of ways, with easy navigation of relationships between devices and logical use. A single view to accurate data through a single user interface simplifies access for engineers and reduces the possibility for error.
With a highly configurable design based on meta-data, future technologies and products can easily be added to the system, making it future proof for the demands of tomorrow’s networks. Our rich and fully documented APIs allow integration with third party systems and other applications.
Keep your inventory up-to-date with the future
At Amdocs, we believe that your inventory should be the start of every network change and upgrade, not the finish. Our automated and simple design tools ensure that each network project is technically valid – comprehensive rule checking and limited menu choices constrain the designer to using known and unallocated capacity. After completion, the network configuration is uploaded and compared with the planned change, highlighting and resolving any discrepancies. By using the inventory as the primary design tool, network planning engineers can both view future planned changes and show the network as it will evolve in future months – without disturbing the accuracy of the current inventory.
The Amdocs Data Integrity Manager uploads network configuration from the live network, either directly from devices or through network management systems. This is compared with the current inventory state and discrepancies identified. A set of pre-defined business rules is used to deal with common issues that have a known resolution. This leaves a smaller and diminishing list of discrepancies which require manual correction.
Build the basis of a truly effective OSS
It’s surprising how many service providers today are still relying on spreadsheets and direct access to network management systems to plan and evolve their network. A comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date telecom inventory forms the basis for many advanced OSS tasks.
Capacity planning, capacity management, network design and impact analysis all require an accurate and complete network inventory. The increased efficiency enabled by a single consolidated inventory delivers substantial benefits for both CAPEX and OPEX savings across the entire network cost base, not just the immediate and more easily measured savings for OSS planning and design staff.
Related Products
Amdocs Network Inventory and Discovery tools are used within the following product offerings:
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