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NetNovo for EnterprisesPolicy Based Compliance ManagementNetwork Configuration and Change ManagementIntelliden OS ManagerDynamic Resource ProvisioningDiscovery and Reconciliation R-Series Platform

"Intelliden’s Discovery and Reconciliation application will help companies to more efficiently deploy their existing network infrastructure and improve overall integrity and management of critical network data."

Arindam Banerjee, Yankee Group

Products: Discovery and Reconciliation

Given the complexity of today’s networks and their relationships to other operational and IT systems, keeping network resource data current and synchronized can be a significant task.
 
Network-driven organizations face the daunting challenge of having hundreds of thousands to millions of network assets, purchased from dozens of vendors, speaking a multitude of management protocols, with tens of millions of lines of configuration, across hundreds of millions of interfaces, supporting multiple diverse services, all of which must integrate perfectly across a large number of databases supplied by various independent OSS and IT systems vendors. 
 
Intelliden’s Discovery and Reconciliation (D&R) solution maintains a ‘trusted source of network data’ based on the real-time state of the network devices, and reconciles this information with other applications such as inventory, service provisioning, fault management and CMDB.
 
Built to support TM Forum’s latest Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI) Release 2.0, Intelliden D&R reduces the integration costs and development time associated with linking multiple applications.

 


Unique Capabilities
  • Maintains a Trusted Source of Network Truth™
  • Tightly integrates network change and resource reconciliation processes
  • Augments resource information with non-discoverable, static data
  • Provides a standards-based normalized interface for easy integration
  • Addresses compliance and security risks associated with 'dirty inventory'

 

 

 

 

 

Challenges

Service providers and other network-driven enterprises face a number of costs and challenges associated with stranded network assets and inaccurate databases of record:

 

  • Provisioning errors caused due to inaccurate inventory databases
  • Cost of excess capital invested in unnecessary network equipment
  • Operating costs of excess inventory over its useful life
  • Inefficient root cause analysis and fault resolution
  • Heightened compliance and security risks


Solution
Intelliden Discovery and Reconciliation (D&R) is designed specifically for multi-vendor, multi-service networks, and provides real-time and continuous reconciliation of network resource data.  It detects changes to network assets as they occur and reconciles these with third party applications in a standardized format. This helps to reduce “inventory drift” i.e. increasing discrepancy between actually provisioned and presumed state of network in applications such as inventory. It also provides a seamless integration with Intelliden’s network configuration compliance, and provisioning applications thereby enabling early detection of network changes.

 

Key capabilities include:

 

Device Discovery and Synchronization
  • Discovers network devices and related information such as chassis, memory, cards, ports, serial numbers, OS on a scheduled or ad-hoc basis
  • Augments network resource information with non-discoverable, static information such as interface speed auto sensing and PoE
  • Maintains real-time record of physical and logical resources in its persistent store – the Network Database of Record (DBoR)

 

Network Resource Reconciliation

  • Creates a normalized view of network resources and presents this information in a standardized format (e.g. XML, .csv)
  • Performs discrepancy analysis between information stored in third party applications and the ‘actual state’ in the Network DBoR 
  • Provides manual and automated discrepancy reconciliation via an MTOSI compliant Web Services interface

 

 Multi-vendor Device Support

  • Provides support for major device vendors and types including core, access, distribution and CPE routers/switches

  • Enables rapid addition of new devices through meta-data extensions

 

Standards-based, Scalable Architecture

  • Scales up to hundreds of thousands devices and large transaction volumes
  • Open architecture and web services APIs
  • Out of the box support for TM Forum’s MTOSI 2.0 standard

 

Benefits
Intelliden Discovery and Reconciliation application provides a number of unique benefits:
  • Faster, accurate provisioning and reduced order fallout due to ‘dirty inventory’
  • Optimization of  capital and operational expenditure related to network assets
  • Streamlined OSS processes via a single, trusted view of the network  
  • Enhanced root cause diagnosis and fault resolution
  • Improved compliance with security policies