M*Ware Mediation Components

M*Ware provides essential building blocks to easily integrate networks and systems in a maintainable and highly re-usable manner.

Mediation is a very attractive alternative for replacing networks and/or support systems and doubles the lifetime of existing resources. M*Ware Mediation offers easy and rapid configuration of mediation and integration between networks and support systems (OSSs, element managers, network managers) without the need to be familiar with specialized telecom protocols and information models.

M*Ware based mediation offers unique business advantages:

• Flexibility and high performance
• Lower cost and rapid time to market

Customers have the option to purchase M*Ware mediation components and build a solution in-house or with help from System Integrators. Alternatively a complete solution can be delivered using certified Xelas Software delivery partners.

A professional mediation layer ensures:

• A clear division between networks and the different management layers
• A minimal load for the network but maximum feed for OSSs of network management data
• Compatibility and information consistency across the diverse networks and applications
• The required open multi-vendor interfaces to network applications

M*Ware mediation supports all major network equipments. Ask Xelas Software for the comprehensive list of supported equipment types! M*Ware mediation covers fault, configuration and performance data. M*Ware standards-based interfaces translate all protocol specific messages and create an open, ubiquitous network data layer. The interfaces for CMIP, SNMP, CORBA, TL-1 and XML are loaded with meta-data to support any type of MIB, DTD, or IDL. Also advanced new telecom interface standards such as MTNM and 3GPP are fully supported.

Mediation logic is captured in rules engines or scripts and can easily be changed in runtime operation. Administration functions and distribution guarantee the highest flexibility, availability, and scalability.

M*Ware Mediation solutions can be implemented as separate stand-alone systems to mediate between multiple networks and OSS applications. Alternatively they can be built into management applications or OSSs. Customers can choose the implementation approach best suited to specific environment requirements:

• Dynamic Mediation for protocol mediation that can be fully changed and maintained without system down time. This is very suitable for rapidly changing high availability environments. Advanced system management functions ensure optimal flexibility!
• Focused Mediation is a compiled highest performance mediation solution that can easily be combined with existing applications. The focused mediation solution can still be easily maintained, but the application optimizes mediation throughput against lowest hardware system load
• Network Management mediation provides a wide range of high value services on top of the protocol mediation. These manage and consolidate different FCAPS data from southbound systems/networks in a standard based format. This makes integration with northbound network management or OSS applications (which require fault, configuration, performance, topology, inventory or other network data) a lot easier, and ensures that network management information is consistent for multiple applications.

M*Ware Mediation complements and can easily be integrated with standard middleware or EAI solutions. M*Ware differentiates itself by providing multiple advanced, specialized tools for network based applications.

M*Ware gives the control of network equipment and supporting systems back to you!