OREANDA-NEWS. December 04, 2012. Fujitsu, a leading provider of business, information technology, and communications solutions, today announced the next generation of its NETSMART 1500 software, greatly simplifying and accelerating Ethernet Service Provisioning, Traffic Engineering and Service Assurance. Thanks to new GUI (Graphical User Interface)-driven tools using standardized MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) terminology, advanced route selection of Connection Oriented Ethernet (COE) paths becomes a point-and-click operation, enabling operators to deploy revenue-generating Ethernet services more quickly than ever.

As service providers deploy popular MEF E-Line and new E-Access services, NETSMART 1500 software intuitively integrates into current and new applications. The software uniformly manages all layers of a packet optical network integrating SONET, SDH, ROADM and Connection Oriented Ethernet (COE) into a single network management application, allowing service providers to most efficiently manage their network resources from the photonics layer to the packet layer.

With NETSMART 1500 software, users no longer need in-depth knowledge of Carrier Ethernet parameters to provision a new Ethernet service. NETSMART 1500 software uses MEF terminology and default settings for commonly used MEF Ethernet service attributes, enabling users to configure their customers’ unique Ethernet service attributes, such as bandwidth and CoS identification. Now, when users need to define bandwidth and Quality-of-Service (QoS) terms, NETSMART 1500 software will implement the associated profiles across all FLASHWAVE® packet optical networking platforms, automatically accounting for the different functionality and release levels of those various elements. This eliminates operator configuration errors that normally arise when configuring different platforms. In testing, NETSMART 1500 software fully provisioned an MEF-compliant E-Line or E-Access service in less than one minute and troubleshooting the services takes just seconds.

Such ease-of-use and rapid results are due in large part to the easy-to-use GUI, but can also be attributed to a number of inventive resources designed into the system. For example, once service provisioning is initially completed, the route and profile selected may be saved and used as a template, making future service provisioning changes even faster. “Point and click GUI based provisioning of MEF-compliant Ethernet services is a critical requirement of nearly every network operator,” said Ron Kline, Principal Analyst Network Infrastructure at Ovum. “The ability to accelerate time to market for new revenue-generating COE services—one of the strongest growing markets—is even more important.”