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Evolium Operation and Maintenance Center

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The right answer to GSM operators challenges

Network growth, customer satisfaction,

competitive value-added services — GSM
operators face tough challenges every day.

To help them make the grade, Alcatel

has developed the Evolium Operation
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& Maintenance Center-Radio (OMC-R),

a flexible, easy-to-use solution which
provides Network Element (NE)
management for Alcatel BSS voice
and data services, including GPRS.

The Evolium OMC-R capitalizes on

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Alcatel’s experience to meet operations

and maintenance needs for scalable
and seamless operations, as well as
clear and real-time information.

Seamless operations and

network scalability.

The Evolium OMC-R helps streamline

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network configuration thanks to hardware

plug-and-play capability. For example,
no OMC-R command is needed when
introducing a new BTS TRX in the field.

Thanks to its distributed Manager/Agent

architecture, the Evolium OMC-R
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is flexible enough to fit any network

topology and to ensure smooth network
growth.

The Evolium OMC-R can manage an

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entire region composed of thousands of

cells. You can achieve optimum network
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operability by distributing supervision and

display processes across multiple servers.
And your BSS network can be supervised
simultaneously by several operators, even
located on different premises.

In addition, the wide choice of transmission

options, including X.25, LAN, WAN
and others, means that distance and
transmission support are not an issue.
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Clear, real-time information.
Easy access to network information with
data on all network nodes display through
hierarchical views, is the only way
to cope efficiently with huge numbers
of Network Elements.
The Evolium OMC-R window-based
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user interface provides a clear, real-time
network overview, with quick, user-friendly
access to any network management
function.
Powerful on-line documentation, using
hypertext link and navigation technology,
ensures high-quality in-depth information
on all Alcatel GSM BSS topics. Users find
exactly the information they need — rich
in operational content — quickly and
easily. And thousands of links provide
additional support on related topics.
With instantaneous access to the right
information, operators save time and
money on network monitoring, thus
reducing overall operating cost (OPEX)
while improving QoS for their clients.
A complete set of management
functions & services.
Evolium OMC-R Management services
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are set up according to ITU/T X.700
Management Functional Areas, including:
• Fault Management,
• Configuration Management,
• Performance Management,
• Security Management.
Fault management: customized
information for faster diagnosis.
Based on real-time network events
collection and analysis, fast fault diagnosis
is achieved by customization of alarm views
offering powerful sorting and filtering
capabilities.
Thanks to persistent filtering and sorting
facilities, supervisors can focus on the most
critical issues in any network area by
selecting from criteria, such as impacted
resources, severity of alarms or cell
characteristics (e.g. GPRS or frequency
band).
Problems can be viewed in many ways,
from the most synthetic to the most
detailed manner. The Fault Management
features built into the Evolium OMC-R
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enable network supervisors to choose
from among a wide variety of network
views dynamically refreshed, using colors
to indicate levels of urgency.
The main functions of Fault Management
include:
Detection
• Graphic synthesis view,
• Fault localization,
• Alarm counters,
• Alarm severity assignment.
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Tracking
• Alarm views with sort and filter,
• Alarm reservation,
• Events/alarms logging.
Resolution
• Alarm acknowledgment,
• Contextual access to maintenance actions,
• Fault correction.
Post Analysis
• Alarm history,
• Evolution of events,
• Alarm metrics.
Real-time diagnosis of resources
• Usage State on Demand.
Alarms are standard (X.733) and can be
mediated in real time via Q3 to the TMN
Network Management layer or exported
to ASCII files.
Configuration management:
fast, simple and trouble-free.
The Evolium OMC-R enables network
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configuration tasks to be performed
quickly, easily and safely.
It simplifies network configuration.
For example, hardware installation
and radio configuration can be prepared
separately, or extensive radio parameter
changes can be made throughout an
entire network area in a single operation.
Security checks at different levels ensure
the reliability of all configuration operations.
The main configuration management
functions are:
Radio Configuration Management
• On-line change of radio parameters
from the Supervised Configuration view,
• Off-line tuning session of radio
parameters (Provisioning Radio
Configuration),
• Massive logical configuration Update,
• Cell templates,
• GPRS service handling,
• Radio configuration import/export.
Equipment Management
• Hardware on-line extension via simple
action in the topological network view,
• M.3100 hierarchical browser (NE, rack,
shelf, board, transmission),
• Equipment configuration export.
Software Management
• Centralized management of BSS software
packages from the Evolium OMC-R,
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• Rapid roll-out of new software with
minimum impact on traffic.
Configuration objects are in line with
M.3100 and GSM 12.20 standards.
Performance management:
comprehensive QoS data.
Quality of Service supervision and
analysis are built on the integration of a
Metrica database in the Evolium OMC-R.
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The power of the industry-standard
database has been combined with
Alcatel’s expertise in network supervision
to provide maximum efficiency for front-
office performance data management.
Thanks to the numerous QoS indicators
computed on-line, users enjoy an
instantaneous network quality overview.
More than 200 indicators covering all
types of BSS and GPRS resources are
available for immediate assessment.
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Simple navigation on any BSS object

provides direct access to the counters and The open architecture of the Evolium OMC-R, in line with TMN
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indicators browser. This browser allows you principles and standards recommendations (M.3100, X.7xx and GSM
to customize relevant QoS reports in graphic 12.20), means that the Evolium OMC-R easily interfaces to Network
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or tabular form for specific time periods, Management Centers and other systems via a comprehensive set of
with granularity of areas, cells or NEs. interfaces, including Q3.

Because displaying of the right information On top of these interfaces, Alcatel offers a complete set of post-processing
is critical to rapid troubleshooting, Alcatel tools for network optimization. The Evolium Toolchain includes Radio
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has designed specific reports, optimized
for fast detection and analysis of any QoS
decrease. For example, warning reports
will highlight immediately all cells for
which QoS indicators are out of range.
Network Optimization as well as Network Performance Analyser (or
Lucid network Availability, Stability and Events Reporting) for statistical
analysis.

The combination of all these report

RNO
facilities results in comprehensive QoS
Radio optimization
management information, ranging from a NMC
global QoS overview to the most detailed Q3 interface
troubleshooting of an individual TRX.

Thanks to state-of-the-art Metrica software,

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Configuration
the Evolium OMC-R administrator can
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also configure Quality of Service alerts. Hardware

When a threshold is crossed, a QoS unavailability
alarm is automatically generated in real indicators
time, in standard format, and handled just
like any other BSS alarm.
QoS
Indicators
OMC-R Faults
Security management:
one job, one profile. Performance
Results
The Evolium OMC-R provides efficient
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solutions to guarantee the security and

integrity of network operations. LASER
Access control is managed through a set Faults statistics
of accessible NEs, or Object Access
Domains, and through supervision, NPA
configuration and administration profiles, Performance statistics
or Functional Access Domains.
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