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Next-Gen
Carrier Networks
Carrier networks are increasingly
built using a combination of software, computers,
and network devices, with software taking control
of the way that customers are added, supported,
and billed and of the way that the network infrastructure
is managed for highest return on investment. The
components of this new public network are offered
by literally thousands of different vendors, each
of whom may have a different vision on how the
network should be built. These components are
then purchased by providers who also have unique
views on the optimum path to profit, so it is
not surprising that the pieces often don’t
come together. In fact, recent new-generation
networks projects budget hundreds of millions
of dollars in system/network integration services
to make the pieces fit.
TrueBaseline’s TrueOMF
framework offers policy-based service management
that can reach into the providers’ software
and organize its interaction to create an optimized
operations process. It can reach into the service
providers’ networks to manage resources,
correlate faults, provision services, and resolve
problems. It can reach into data centers to insure
critical IT resources are operating correctly
and into the business practices themselves to
make fast, accurate, profitable decisions based
on predefined policies so that critical problems
and issues are resolved without expensive human
intervention.
TrueOMF’s Service Management
Layer supports all of the modern directions in
carrier networking, including IMS, FMC, IPsphere,
NGN, TMF, convergence, IPTV, and more. Best of
all, TrueOMF ties all of these diverse goals into
a single business framework.
TrueOMF Enterprise
ITSM Solution Domain
As Enterprise networks
have evolved over the past decade, multiple point
products have emerged in ERP, CRM, BSM, BI, Configuration
and Change Management, Asset Management, System
Management, and more. In addition, each infrastructure
component has its own element management system.
Recently, much of the focus
has been on ITIL-based frameworks to tie all of
these “services” together, which is
a much-needed step. ITIL defines model-driven
architectures, central repositories (CMDB), and
application mapping, all of which are critical
components of a robust framework. But ITIL-based
frameworks stop short of a total solution. These
frameworks are primarily focused on monitoring
rather than automated control and on a systems-level
view rather than the entire infrastructure—applications,
systems, servers, storage, and network.
TrueOMF can provide users with
a unified view to both monitor as well as control
all of these domains. The autonomic capabilities
of the product enable users to set business policies
and operating states of their business at the
top level, and OBJECTive will drive these TrueOMFs
to the systems/products in the data mining and
infrastructure layers.
In this role, TrueOMF establishes
a common language that is used to communicate
with all elements in the enterprise network.
The TrueOMF facilitation layer
binds services and applications to the network
infrastructure layer with autonomic processing.
TrueOMF accomplishes this by analyzing data/feedback
received from all of the disparate systems at
the management and infrastructure layers for compliance
with policies set at the executive level. Based
on these results, TrueOMF then takes proactive
steps where necessary to reconfigure the network
to its optimum state.
The flexible common language
of TrueOMF allows it to easily receive and send
input/outputs to any device in the network, making
it a powerful integration and facilitation layer
in any enterprise network, regardless of what
legacy or next-generation systems are deployed
or envisioned.
Also key to an automatic, integrated,
managed enterprise environment is the ability
to virtualize the entire infrastructure. TrueBaseline’s
Virtual Service Projection Engine (ViSPA) provides
the ability to virtualize every element in the
infrastructure and to process user requests for
resources through its powerful policy-mapping
layer.
ViSPA (Virtual Service
Projection Engine)
With the cost of network
bandwidth declining almost daily, businesses are
taking advantage of networking to break the previously
tight bonds that linked applications to users, storage,
servers, networks, and other resources. This process,
called “virtualization,” is potentially
powerful but often incredibly risky. Not only does
every vendor seem to have an individual view of
virtualization (and incompatible views at that),
all of the virtualization visions seem to leave
the user and the user’s business out of the
picture. IT assets are
of critical value, and managing access to them
and controlling how they are deployed is absolutely
critical, not only to create a profitable business
but to protect information security and comply
with regulatory mandates on privacy, compliance,
and accountability. TrueBaseline’s TrueOMF-based
Virtualization and Service Projection Architecture
(ViSPA) is an open, multi-vendor resource and
application management system that incorporates
virtualization, application policies and resource
rights, compliance, auditibility, reliability,
and scalability into one package that where possible
utilizes open-source software to control costs
and improve flexibility.
ViSPA supports application,
file, disk, server, storage, network, and even
process virtualization and can be applied to any
IT environment, any network type or equipment,
and any vendor anywhere.
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