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ECI adds LightCARE network monitoring to LightAPPS family
Optical transport developer ECI has added a network maintenance app, LightCARE, to its LightAPPS family of applications for software-defined networking. LightCARE continuously and proactively monitors the health of the network to pre-empt potential failures and avoid network downtime. This, in turn, increases customer satisfaction and loyalty.
The app regularly runs a variety of tests, in the background, that identify and analyse potential network issues, and displays a comprehensive summary of the health status of the network in an intuitive dashboard. The summary includes maintenance recommendations and alerts only on the most urgent and critical issues, graded by severity. The report is constantly updated and always available for review. ‘The beauty of LightCARE is that it is always on the job, looking after the health of your network,’ explained Gali Malkiel, head of software business at ECI. Automated health tests can be tailored to the user’s requirements and added to the app as required using predefined templates. Operators can schedule specific tests – including NE backup status, RDR backup status, disk and memory usage, and CPU load – and arrange for alerts to be delivered via e-mail or SMS. In short, LightCARE helps operators reduce opex by introducing automation to day-to-day operations.
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Pentair and Radisys create open source rack-level system for carrier-grade data centres
Pentair, with its Schroff brand, and Radisys have collaborated on an open source rack-level hardware system specifically designed to meet the next-generation requirements of the telecom industry. The resulting open source hardware design leverages Open Compute Project (OCP) principles, with optimisations for telco central offices and service provider-oriented data centres. The joint design innovations have been accepted by the OCP as the CG-OpenRack-19 specification. Service providers are transitioning their networks from traditional central offices to virtualised data centres in order to meet demand
EXFO adds Speedtest by Ookla technology to MaxTester 635G
Test and measurement specialist EXFO has added Ookla’s Speedtest technology to its MaxTester 635G tester, giving service providers a single tool that integrates physical, service and throughput testing for G.fast, VDSL2-35b, VDSL2- and ADSL2+ deployments. The new
for real-time service delivery while saving capital and operating expense. This migration from purpose-built systems to software-based applications running on commercially available infrastructure is driving a broader ecosystem that is increasingly using open source software and hardware systems. The joint offering from Pentair and Radisys combines Radisys’ DCEngine network functions virtualisation (NFV) platform with Schroff’s ServCite open rack-scale hardware system, to create the infrastructure that service providers need to deliver an agile software-driven approach to deploying new services quickly. ‘There is a robust open source ecosystem developing that will drive the future of next-gen networks, and Schroff is embracing this new model,’ said Daniel Stirpe, vice president and general manager, Schroff. ‘Radisys is an agile and flexible partner, and our collaboration together highlights what a model partner relationship should look like with the resulting delivery of a new open source rack-level solution that meets the specific needs of communications service providers.’ The Schroff ServCite rack has been developed specifically to meet the stringent requirements of the telecom industry for shock and vibration resistance, redundancy and reliable cooling capacity. Compared to other standards in the telecommunications industry, such as AdvancedTCA, the Schroff ServCite rack has significantly higher data processing and storage density, the company claims. The rack can accommodate top-of-rack switches, a power supply unit, a rack agent as well as compute and storage sleds.
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software enables operators rolling out FTTx broadband to make sure residential subscribers get the upload and download speeds they expect, based on results obtained directly from testing devices used by technicians in the field. Speedtest by Ookla measures the true TCP
throughput over the customer’s G.fast, DSL or Ethernet circuit using the industry gold standard
in internet connection speed testing. The handheld MAX-635G enables technicians to perform a Speedtest anywhere in the last mile network – from a distribution point unit, network interface device, or optical networking terminal – enabling more reliable and consistent results in the field.
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