S2Net-Inventory

S2Net-Inventory , a standards-based OSS inventory solution, delivers fully configurable, resource management across the full range of network technologies. A specialist solution in ‘whole-of-business’ deployments, S2Net-Inventory significantly reduces service provisioning costs and timeframes for our customers.

Built upon a time-spanning inventory database, S2Net-Inventory provides a fully-integrated physical and logical view across your entire network at any point in time. It even allows you to instantly understand the impact of network failures on customer services inherently through its sophisticated object modelling approach.

Configured to meet our customers’ needs, S2Net-Inventory accommodates new technology and equipment across the full range of vendors and offers seamless integration with existing OSS environments, allowing you to fully leverage your existing infrastructure investment.

Features

Standards-Based Data Representation

The S2Net-Inventory database and configurable data validation rules are based on accepted industry standards, which means that not only are they suitable for today’s needs but they can also be easily expanded and maintained into the future.

Multi-Layer, Multi-Technology, Multi-Vendor Support

S2Net-Inventory allows you to resource manage your complete network inventory, including any combination of IP, ATM, Frame Relay, SDH, SONET, DWDM, 3G, PON, Ethernet, Packet SONET, convergent IMS applications and Triple Play Networks. It lets you integrate disparate legacy systems and transform technology silos into a single, consolidated view of the network. It provides company-wide access to validated network inventory, offering our customers a complete representation of all elements (service, logical and physical) of the network at any point in time. The result is a powerful system that underpins the “design and assign” process and provides total confidence in managing your network.

Time-Spanning Network View

The S2Net-Inventory database provides a consolidated, time-spanning view of the network, allowing our customers to see infrastructure and services not just as they are today, but also at any stage in the past or future. This lets you future-proof your capacity needs and more easily identify and rectify quality of service bottlenecks and network errors. Our solution even lets you model alternative scenarios to help accurately predict the impact of network failures, or forward planning of network engineering activities, on your customer services.

Sophisticated Validation

S2Net-ResourceManager provides extensive validation of all work at every stage of the design process. Validation checks include adherence to vendor specifications for equipment, adherence to network connectivity rules and naming of all objects. The checks operate at both the technology and business process level, and are fully configurable to support and enforce the unique requirements of each service provider.

Service Configuration and Resource Provisioning

S2Net-ResourceManager drives improved delivery performance in the areas of service fulfilment, including a comprehensive inventory of all physical equipment and infrastructure.

Business Process Support

S2Net-Inventory offers powerful business process automation, including topological design, bulk cabling, outage management and flow-through rearrangement. This feature works closely with S2Net-Automation to let you to more effectively manage network rationalisation and the transition to Next Generation Networks.

Customer Controlled Configuration

Because S2Net-Inventory is data-driven (not code!) this gives our customers total control. Unlike other systems whose functionality is tied to rigid software releases, you can manage your system yourself by implementing and deploying your own extensions whenever you choose. And because it's vendor independent, S2Net-Inventory can be configured to support equipment from any vendor. This means you can choose best-of-breed network technology solutions, confident that they’ll be supported.