Network management helps customers to address their top challenges:

• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

• Deploy and scale convergence solutions that reduce barriers to:

o Enterprise innovation

o Productivity

o Customer engagement

• Assure application, service, & network performance and availability

• Secure the network

BTC’s solution provides:

Optivity NMS provides an automated discovery and display of all Nortel Networks devices, interfaces, and network services in a converged network.  This includes:

• Physical discovery of hubs, switches, routers, IP Telephony call servers & gateways, Multimedia Communications Servers, Business Communications Managers, Wireless Security Switches & Wireless Access Points, and Wireless Mesh network components. NMS also discovers and maps the physical and logical connections between these devices

• Layer 2 discovery, including Ethernet switches, interconnecting links, switch communities, VLANs, and VLAN membership

• Layer 3 discovery of network elements and interconnecting links

• Layer 4 - 7 discovery of Alteon* and Passport* 8600 WSM network elements and interconnecting links

• Discovery and visualization of Multicast, Unicast, MLT/SMLT services

• End node discovery of devices such as servers and workstations attached to the network, including Call Manager 1000 IP telephony devices

• Protocol discovery of branch-to-branch IP-VPN tunnels, multicast sessions, unicast sessions, and Frame Relay DLCI connections.

The following Element Managers Co-reside with ONMS:

• Optivity Switch Manager

• Optivity Telephony Manager

• Optivity Policy Services

• Alteon Switch Manager Console