Carrier Solutions

By their nature, carrier and commercial service providers deploy very large complex networks. The integration of data, voice, video, and wireless is placing greater demands on network operation and management. At the same time, carrier business models are impacted by the commoditization of access services which in turn is driving the need to tightly manage OPEX.

Network equipment providers must respond to this environment with sophisticated and reliable network management solutions. Key requirements include:

Tail-f Systems Product Overview ConfD NETCONF ConfD SNMP Agent ConfD CLI ConfD Web UI ConfM ConfD Core Engine ConfD Core Engine
  • Support for critical northbound interfaces (CLI, Web UI, SNMP, and NETCONF)
  • Ease of Integration with legacy systems
  • Broad platform support
  • Carrier grade-performance
  • Full implementation of NETCONF including, transactions, validations, rollbacks, and notifications
  • Rapid prototyping and development
  • Scalable replication of configuration and operational data
  • Comprehensive security
  • Fine-grained logging
  • Role-based access controls
  • Flexible deployment

See whitepaper on “Building Carrier-grade On-Device Network Management Systems” by EMA for a detailed discussion of Industry requirements.

Solutions from Tail-f Systems for the carrier market are:

  • ConfD - industry leading embedded network management solution.
  • Instant NETCONF Agent - adding a northbound NETCONF interface to legacy network management devices.
  • ConfM - automated configuration management including functions like network-wide transactional changes and configuration synchronization to allow operators to build network-wide intelligence into the process of configuring networks.