With the benefits and unique capabilities that OpVista equipment offers, it is only befitting that it be managed by highly capable software. WaveMaster™ offers a simple and highly effective approach to system software.
WaveMaster provides full visibility and control down to the cards in each chassis. With critical, major and minor alarms built into the system, users can manage the network to their operational requirements. From a central management center, users have full control over the configuration of their network at all times. Fiber is not taken out of service and changes to the user's network can be made without truck rolls or service outages.
The Wavelength Wizard™ replaces conventional table entries with mouse clicks and presents the results graphically to provide clear operator feedback and eliminate provisioning errors. It allows users to add or reconfigure wavelengths automatically with a few mouse clicks.
Each network element (NE), consisting of all the cards and chassis at that node or site, manages itself locally using local embedded software. Each NE is managed at a higher level by OpVista's element management system (EMS) – WaveMaster. The EMS is responsible for operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of the system and for northbound communication to an operational support system (OSS).
Highlights:
- The Wave Master™ Element Management System core and its database (MySQL) are supported on Sun-Solaris running on SPARC platforms.
- A Java-based client graphical user interface (GUI) runs on any PC and Sun-Solaris and provides a view of the entire network, individual shelves, alarm interface, wavelength provisioning, and network performance.
- Standard communication protocols to Northbound OSSs are supported via SNMP.
- A standard craft/command line interface (CLI) is also available via RS-232 or Telnet from the Network Element.
- Performance monitoring is provided at three layers:
- Layer 0: receive and transmit optical power levels plus optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR)
- Layer 1: SONET code violations (CV), errored seconds (ES), severely errored seconds (SES), and unavailable seconds (UAS)
- Layer 2: RMON groups 1, 2, and 3
