Table of Contents

Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits

Feature Summary

Specifications
Ordering Information

Cisco WAN Manager (CWM)

Product Overview

This chapter provides information on the Cisco WAN Manager (CWM) network management product for the multiservice WAN networks consisting of MGX 8800 Series Wide Area Edge Switch, BPX 8600 Series Wide Area Switch, Service Expansion Shelf (SES), IGX 8400 Series, MGX 8240 Private Line Gateway, and MGX 8220 Edge Concentrator.

CWM provides both element and network management capabilities for wide-area multiservice networks, and enables integrated service management and process automation for simplified management of even the most complex networks. CWM allows network operators to easily monitor usage, provision connections, detect faults, configure devices, and track network statistics.

CWM is designed to address the significant demands in managing and operating next-generation wide-area multiservice networks. The multiservice environment is more challenging with a greater number of connections and wider variety of services, making the administration of the network a potentially impossible task without the right tools.

Based on a robust, scalable architecture, CWM not only meets today`s business requirements for the control and operation, but also integrates with other Cisco network management products to provide end-to-end service management of multiservice WAN networks.

Key Features and Benefits

Feature Summary

• Topology Map for an end-to-end view of the multiservice WAN network, both PNNI- and AutoRoute-based

• Connection Manager for provisioning, modifying and viewing PVCs and SPVCs

• Statistics Collection Manager for enabling statistics collections on various cards

• Event Browser using HPOV for viewing network/equipment failures and configuration changes

• Network Browser for viewing network inventory and alarm status

• Security Management for setting up access profiles with security privileges

• WingZ reports for quick snapshots of performance statistics using ad-hoc queries

• Summary Reports for trending network utilization, exceptions, and availability

• CiscoView for graphical element management, including port configuration, viewing alarm status and real-time counters.

• Informix database that stores provisioned network resources and collected performance/usage statistics

• Service Agent for flowthrough provisioning of ports and connections, and event forwarding to external applications"

The following features are available with CWM:

• Scalability

  Today`s wide-area multiservice networks may start out with a few thousand connections that can quickly expand to a few hundred thousand. CWM is designed to scale as the network grows in both enterprise and service provider environments.

• Management and operations

  The complexity of today`s wide-area multiservice networks demand the right tools to manage and administer the network. CWM software provides powerful fault, configuration, and performance management capabilities for the multiservice WAN network. A user-friendly, Java-based interface allows network managers to rapidly provision new services and view the entire network to quickly identify and isolate network problems.

• Service management and integration

  Seamless integration into an existing network management environment is critical in providing end-to-end service management. CWM Service Agent provides an SNMP interface for network and service layer management views and control. With a rich flowthrough interface, the Service Agent enables automated provisioning and fault management through the extensive set of operations for data manipulation and retrieval.. Network and service management applications can be Cisco`s Service Management applications, service provider`s Operations Support Systems (OSS), or other 3rd party vendor value-added applications.

• Performance and capacity management

  As the cost of high-speed wide-area networks increase with bandwidth, there is greater demand for performance and capacity planning, and cost justification and allocation. CWM Statistics Collection Manager (SCM) collects comprehensive network statistics for performance management, billing, and capacity planning. The SCM uses TFTP or FTP, which is optimized for bulk data transfer, and can upload in excess of six million usage statistics per hour per SCM. The data is then stored in a standard SQL database for historical reporting and trend analysis. These statistics can also now be stored on a separate server for improved access by other 3rd party software or service provider OSSs.

Specifications

Ordering Information

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:13:42 PDT 2000
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