Alcatel-lucent DATA GRID SUITE BROCHURE
Alcatel-Lucent Data Grid Suite
The Alcatel-Lucent Data Grid Suite (DGS) streamlines the data-management process for network operators, reducing
operational and integration costs and enabling faster time-to-market for new revenue-generating services.
Benefits
• Reduce application integration costs
by federating multiple data sources
• Faster time-to-market for new
revenue-generating services
• Lower operational costs
• Preservation of legacy technology
investments as well as minimizing
the impacts of future migration costs
• Enhances delivery of loyalty management, content aggregation,
mobile advertising and other
value-added services
The Alcatel-Lucent Data Grid Suite
(DGS) is one of the key components
of the Alcatel-Lucent Subscriber Data
Management Solution. As part of the
solution, the Alcatel-Lucent DGS
provides a more unified approach
to managing data from multiple data
sources across different domains by
giving network operators a single
point of access to network data such
as subscriber profiles and application
data (see Figure 1). For example,
loyalty and advertising programs can
be enhanced by virtualizing Home
Subscriber Service (HSS: Diameter),
network address book (Extensible
Markup Language Configuration
Access Protocol: XCAP), personalization
preferences (Directory Server: LDAP),
and billing (open database connectivity:
ODBC) information using a single query.
In conjunction with the Alcatel-Lucent
Subscriber Data Management Solution
or as a standalone product, the
Alcatel-Lucent DGS streamlines the
data-management process by reducing
the number of integration touch-points
and simplifying access to multiple data
repositories such as those required by
customer service. The Alcatel-Lucent
DGS also provides support for other
value-added services, including
Web 2.0. This reduces operational
costs, minimizes the risk of migration
and enables faster time-to-market
for new revenue-generating services
targeted for multiple networks,
markets and domains.
Complying with Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) principles, the
Alcatel-Lucent DGS eliminates the
complexity of data management by
providing a single access method or
protocol for applications to retrieve,
process and update subscriber data.
This protocol hides underlying
data schema complexities from the
applications and provides access to the
data without a significant performance
loss thus enabling mastered data
management.
Features
The Alcatel-Lucent DGS offers network
operators the following capabilities:
• Universal view – Enables a dramatic
reduction in integration cycle time and
time-to-market for new applications
that need access to one or more
real-time network and IT data
repositories
• Data virtualization – Blends and
combines data from intranetwork
data sources (real-time network
data and IT data) while maintaining
legacy data stores
• Data federation – Federates data
from the operator’s network with
partner data external to the operator’s
network
¬ Enables a single sign-on access for
multiple networks, services and
applications, as well as third-party
domains
• Highly scalable architecture
¬ Single serving node consolidates
data from all data producers and
provides access to all data consumers
¬ Easy increase in the number of
nodes as data size and workload
increase
• Index-server technology – Supports
“self-healing” when data is shifted
from one resource to another
• High availability – For data sources
that do not support automatic-failover
capabilities
• Support for provisioning/write
capabilities to integrated data sources
Alcatel-Lucent Value
• Unique Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
techniques – Simplify and streamline
the data-collection process
¬ Logical data view for simulta-
neously querying and updating
the global view
¬ Data models defined with data-
design capabilities that provide a
consolidated schema to create the
logical view, and support legacy
schemas and mappings between the
Alcatel-Lucent DGS-defined global
view and individual data sources
¬ Data mediation and transformation
between the legacy schemas from
data sources and the consolidated,
global-view schema
¬ Metadata management to manage
the data repository for design
information, including schemas,
mappings and data placement
¬ Built-in query management,
data transformation, access and
throttling controls, eliminating
unnecessary programming and
“wrapper” development
¬ Modeling tool to design the
generic user-profile schema
(see figure 2)
Detailed benefits
• Reduces application integration
costs by federating multiple data
sources. As a result, the Alcatel-Lucent
DGS provides a unified, single point
of access for value-added services
for all data across the network.
• Enables faster time-to-market for
new revenue-generating services
targeted for multiple networks,
markets and domains. By providing
a single, virtual layer for application
integration, it dramatically reduces
the cycle-time typically required for
an application to access two or more
data sources.
• Lowers operational costs of
customer service. In facilitating a
single view of multiple data sources,
the Alcatel-Lucent DGS has been
able to eliminate the challenges of
customer service representatives
needing to access multiple screens
to troubleshoot service issues of
a subscriber.
• Preserves investments in older
technology with seamless integration
based on Bell Labs technology.
Recognizing that critical information
for value-added services and customer
support functions may reside in
purpose-built repositories, the
Alcatel-Lucent DGS can merge/join in
real-time data from those repositories
as well as next-generation elements.
In addition, the Alcatel-Lucent DGS
can minimize or eliminate impacts to
applications resulting from data
migration of legacy to next-generation
repositories.
• Enhances loyalty-management
programs, content aggregation,
mobile advertising, identitymanagement and other value-added
services. Personalization of those
services is easily enabled through the
combination of key data sources.
Pre-integrated products
• Alcatel-Lucent 8650 Subscriber
Data Manager (SDM) – Manages
the subscriber-profile data needed
for Home Location Register (HLR),
Home Subscriber Server (HSS),
Equipment Identify Register (EIR),
Mobile Number Portability (MNP),
and Authentication, Authorization
and Accounting (AAA) requirements
for mobile, fixed and converged
networks
• Alcatel-Lucent 8661 Directory
Server (DS) – State-of-the-art,
high-performance Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
directory server
¬ Stores and maintains application-
based subscriber data to provide
simultaneous support for multiple
real-time applications as well
as other data elements, such
as preferences and identity
information
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• Alcatel-Lucent 8620 SurePay
Complete, end-to-end convergentpayment solution
¬ Supports real-time rating, charging
and billing for wireline, wireless,
data and video, plus associated
value-added services for prepaid
and postpaid subscribers
• Alcatel-Lucent 5410 XML Document
Management Server (XDMS) –
Allows end-users to manage their
contact information and group memberships in a unified list that is stored
in the operator’s network.
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