ADC LoopStar 1600, LoopStar 800, LoopStar 3600 User Manual

LoopStar® Network Management

LoopStar 800/1600/3600 Provide Flexible Options for Network Management

LoopStar 800

LoopStar 3600

LoopStar 1600

Overview

ADC’s LoopStar next generation SONET product family provides service providers and enterprise
customers several choices when deciding how to manage their networks. The choices include: 1) A
full GUI-based Element Management System (EMS) for large complex networks; 2) An EMS- Local
Craft Terminal (LCT) for centralized management of relatively small networks via a single layer
solution; 3) Web-LCT which is resident on the LoopStar system and provides GUI control using a
PC- based web browser; and 4) Transaction Language (TL-1) command language with direct serial
communication between a PC or higher layer NMS and the LoopStar SONET system. These flexible
options enable customers to select the right level of network management for their LoopStar
systems, based on their considerations of complexity and cost.

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LoopStar® Network Management

LoopStar 800/1600/3600 Provide Flexible Options for Network Management

LoopStar EMS and EMS-Local Craft
Terminal (LCT)

The LoopStar EMS is an advanced user­friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) Element
Management System (EMS) for controlling and
managing networks consisting of LoopStar
800/1600/3600 SONET access systems. The
LoopStar EMS provides users with sophisticated
centralized control capabilities for configuring,
monitoring, testing, and managing multiple
LoopStar 800/1600/3600 systems from a single
management platform.

The LoopStar EMS-LCT is an element
management layer (EML) management system
for LoopStar 800/1600/3600 SONET Access
Systems. The LoopStar EMS-LCT is intended
for small, relatively simple networks. It provides
users with single-layer management network
solutions to the LoopStar 800/1600/3600 of
up to eight NEs and manages the systems in a
centralized manner.

LoopStar 800/1600/3600 systems are highly
advanced next-generation SONET Access
Systems that allow service providers to cost-

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effectively deploy and manage TDM and
Ethernet services to end-user customers.

With the LoopStar EMS or EMS LCT, service
providers can perform advanced management
control functions for their entire network of
LoopStar 800/1600/3600 systems, all from
a common management platform. Specific
capabilities of the LoopStar EMS and
EMS-LCT include:

• Configuration Management: Network
connections, system and circuit provisioning,
system inventory

Network Configuration Management

and System Alarming

System and Circuit
Provisioning

Performance
Monitoring
and Testing

• Fault Management: Alarm management
and control, alarm history database
management

• Performance Monitoring: Real-time traffic
management, monitoring and alarming, PM
database management

• Security: System access and password control

• Testing: Circuit and test management control

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LoopStar® Network Management

LoopStar 800/1600/3600 Provide Flexible Options for Network Management

The LoopStar EMS is a Windows®-based
software application designed to operate in
standard client-server-based configurations.
The system is a scalable platform consisting of
a central database/server software application
with options for multiple client servers hosted
from the central server. The total number
of LoopStar 800/1600/3600 elements to be
managed by a common LoopStar EMS is a
function of the server/client system and memory
capacity. Standard network configurations
are approximately 1-32 systems per
LoopStar 800 EMS.

Communications between the LoopStar
EMS and network LoopStar 800/1600/3600
systems is via TL1 or SNMP message control
over Ethernet LAN/WAN communications.
The LoopStar EMS can also funnel network
configuration, alarms and performance
monitoring information to higher-order network
management systems via TL1/CORBA/MML
north-bound LAN/WAN
interface communications.

The LoopStar EMS-LCT is a PC-based software
application designed to work on Windows 2000

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or Windows XP system. The LoopStar EMS- LCT
provides management and configuration
functions at the NE layer to a single
concurrent session.

Transaction Language (TL1)

TL1 is a derivation of the CCITT Man-Machine
Language (MML). The LoopStar SONET product
family TL1 specification is derived from Telcordia
standards referenced in the TL1 Command
Set Technical Publication. The LoopStar
800/1600/3600 can be managed directly via
TL1 commands by technicians who log into
the NE LAN port using terminal emulation on
a PC. They can perform all of the network
management functions referenced in the EMS/
EMS-LCT section of this document. Using TL1
the LoopStar 800 has complete integration into
Telcordia ‘s TIRKS and NMA OSS systems for
inventory and network monitoring.

Web-Local Craft Terminal

The Web-LCT is a JavaScript application
embedded in LoopStar Network Element (NE)
software. Through the Web-LCT, customers can

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manage, maintain and configure the LoopStar 800
using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Users can access
the LoopStar 800 and configure services or query
alarms on it just by opening Microsoft Internet
Explorer on their terminal computers and then
entering the IP address of the NE. Once accessed,
the Web-LCT provides configuration management,
fault management, performance monitoring,
security and testing management. Web-LCT
will be available on the LoopStar 1600 in the
near future.

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System Requirements

LoopStar EMS

Server

PC Desktop PC-P4 2.4GHz or above, or

PC Server-P4 PE6600-4xXeon 1.9GHz or

above, or HP Workstation-xw6000-2xP4
Xeon 2.4GHz or above

512M-40G-FDD/DVD/Video adapter

10&100BT Network adapter
Windows2000 Professional

Client

Desktop PC-P4 2.4GHz or above
512M-40G-FDD/DVD/Video adapter, or

LoopStar EMS-LCT

Personal Computer

Pentium 1.3 GHz or above
256M/30G/FDD/DVD
Windows 2000 or XP

Web-LCT

Personal Computer

Microsoft Windows 9X, 2000, XP or NT
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later

800x600 pixel resolution (minimum)
Pentium II 600 or higher
128 MB memory (minimum)

HP Workstation-xw6000-2xP4 Xeon

2.4GHz or above
1GB-2x36GB

O r d e r i n g I n f o r m a t i o n

Description Catalog Number

LoopStar EMS Items

LoopStar EMS Server (Server SW and SQL Database) LPS-EMS800SRV-L1

LoopStar EMS Client (Client SW and ILOG Tools) LPS-EMS800CLNT-L1

LoopStar NE License Authorization Charge (RTU) per NE, first 30 NEs LPS-EMSRTU-L1

LoopStar NE License Authorization Charge (RTU) per NE, NE 31 and above LPS-EMSRTU-L2

LoopStar EMS-LCT Items

LoopStar EMS- LCT Software (PC) LPS-EMSLCT

Web-LCT

LoopStar Web- LCT Software (PC) NA - resident on NE

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