Unified Network Operations Management

Solution Highlights

TBD Networks provides a complete operations solution for managing networks across multiple locations. Unlike desktop-oriented configurations tools, TBD provides network operations and element management features in a multi-user environment for 24x7 operations. It supports multiple vendors through a uniform interfaces cutting training costs and making it straightforward to manage merger situations and complex environments. TBD provides:

• A unified user interface for managing network devices by multiple vendors from monitoring to troubleshooting and reporting
• Integrated configuration management capabilities that track all changes and automated roll-back to earlier configurations
• Integration with leading Network Management Consoles based on SNMP, SOAP web services, XML and database integration
• Policy-based support for advanced features such as VLANs, GRE, IPSec
• Audit and Compliance Analysis/Reporting
• Hybrid support for physical (switches, routers, firewalls and load balancers) and virtual network devices (e.g. VMware vSwitches)
• Role-based, multi-tier management
• Continuity of operations

Benefits

• Reduced Training Effort: By providing a unified management interface and guaranteed support for all vendors with published, open interfaces training costs a greatly reduced

• Centralized Management: A highly distributed infrastructure based on hundreds of distributed device controllers allows the centralized management of very large environments

• Uniformity of Service Delivery: By using one centralized solutions services are designed once and rolled out many times across locations reducing error rates and design effort

• Improved availability: Systematic configuration roll-outs reduce pilot errors and configuration roll-back makes it possible to return hundreds of devices to a valid state within seconds.

• Single pane of glass: All management functions are provided through one auditable, web-based interface across tasks and vendors

• Agility: Reconfiguring large sets of devices in a synchronized and structured way cuts the time for rolling out new services and supporting new applications.

• Openness Open integration SDKs allow the support of proprietary and closed systems

• Business Continuity/Continuity of Operations (COOP): The complete state of the network can be replicated to a secondary locations providing business continuity with a loss window of just minutes

Key Functions

• Per-device troubleshooting: Issuing of per device troubleshooting commands across locations and device types through a unified interface

• Cross-device command execution: Issuing of commands and command sets for multiple locations and device types

• Scheduling of changes: Approved changes can be scheduled for deployment during off-hours and maintenance windows.

• Roll-back: Individual devices or complete networks can be rolled back to earlier configuration states.

• Failure detection: The functioning of each device under management is monitored using configurable intervals.

• Reporting: Key load and traffic parameters and monitored and aggregated across devices.

• Multi-device configuration: Configuration changes can be rolled out to groups of devices in a structured way that allows the deployment of identical configurations as well as group or device overrides.

• Configuration baseline policies Custom policies reflect the specific requirements of your organization.