Creanord EchoNEWS: April - May 2009
Welcome to the April - May issue of Creanord EchoNEWS. Creanord EchoNEWS aims to keep you informed of the latest developments at Creanord
and in the fields of automated Ethernet service delivery, SLA assurance and Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM).
This issue will cover the new features of Creanord EchoVault AEDS. AEDS is short for Analytics, Events, Dashboards and Statistics -- a suite of tools coming out during
summer 2009 with EchoVault version 4.0. Ethernet Expo 2009 is just few weeks away. Come and join us in London on the 13th and 14th of May!
AEDS - Analytics, Events, Dashboards and Statistics
For a long time the Creanord EchoVault strength has been the high precision of network quality and bandwidth utilization information. But while the trend thrives for managing
more with fewer professionals the tools needs to evolve to assist both the operations and the business personnel. The automatic exceptions reporting, rich event notifications
and advanced analytics are prime examples of the new requirements.
The Creanord EchoVault 4.0 introduces new value added tools through the AEDS package to further harness the power of EchoVault.
Analytics Engine
Analytics Engine continuously analyses measurement Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and further process the data for event notification and monthly reporting purposes.
The arithmetical calculations like minimum, maximum and percentiles are performed for time periods such as five minutes, one hour, one day and one month.
Furthermore the Analytics Engine introduces a new Key Quality Indicator (KQI) called Service Availability. It is a percent of time when the service measured by
EchoVault has met the predefined quality objectives.
Rich Event Engine
Service Providers Network Operation Center (NOC) is already overwhelmed with alarms that are triggered with light grounds. On the other hand too high thresholds lead to the situation
where NOC is unaware of decreased performance.
Quite a paradox isn't it?
The EchoVault Rich Event Engine solves the problem by monitoring network performance against measured baseline and triggers event notifications when the quality differs too much from
the baseline. The Rich Event Engine also implements filtering mechanism where alerts are sent only when the set tolerance levels are exceeded.
Dashboard Engine
Dashboard Engine enables the EchoVault user to publish for example customer specific Analytics and Service Availability information either in the EchoVault user interface or in the Service Providers
own customer reporting portal of choice. The latter option is simply realized by URL linking (e.g. HTML iframe) between the Portal and EchoVault Dashboard Engine interface. Typical overview presentation
illustrates daily or monthly KPIs per circuit with an expand option presenting either time or Analytics operator based details.
(Click the picture above for a closer view)
Please contact Creanord Professional Services for any questions related to the Portal integration.
Statistics Engine
The Statistics Engine is a lightweight EchoVault routine that analyzes performance and network utilization metrics. Instead of continuously saving the calculated results to the database the
Statistics Engine only stores the data needed for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics reports. For example while processing the network utilization KPIs the Statistics Engine can highlight
single traffic peaks of ten second or one minute period with the date and time details. Furthermore it's able to produce a count of 10 second periods where the bandwidth usage is more than 60%.
To present the statistics Creanord EchoVault provide wide choice of options; from SQL and XML integration to complete Dashboard and Portal visualization.
Ethernet Expo Europe 2009
Ethernet Expo Europe 2009 takes place in London on the 13th and 14th of May at the ExCel Conference Centre. You are welcome to meet us and discuss the Creanord EchoVault solution,
Ethernet SLA automation, service creation and OAM in more details. You can find us at booth 218.
Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009 is the premier event covering the hot topic of carrier Ethernet network technologies and services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Light Reading's eighth Ethernet Expo, this year's event in London will assemble dozens of experts from the service provider, supplier, and analyst communities to explore the
hottest trends and paint a roadmap for where Ethernet is likely to take us through the rest of this decade. Read more about
Ethernet Expo Europe 2009.
Previous issues of Creanord EchoNEWS
Creanord EchoNEWS November 2008
Creanord EchoNEWS December 2008
Creanord EchoNEWS January 2009
Creanord EchoNEWS February 2009
Creanord EchoNEWS March 2009
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