Telecommunications Network Inventory System - Sunvizion

Have better insight into your network

SunVizion Network Inventory Management System is a multi-module, multi-technology comprehensive solution for the inventory of both logical and physical network elements, as well as the support of the network planning process. The solution seamlessly operates with any network technology and with all types of the networks. An integrated workflow engine supports the processes related to network management and sales of the services. Intelligent discovery and reconciliation mechanisms improve the accuracy of network data. The solution is accessible through three platforms: desktop, web, and mobile.

In its capacity as an integrated, robust, enterprise-wide platform, SunVizion empowers operators to realize successful OSS transformation.

By orchestrating intelligent management of network and service data, SunVizion Network Inventory facilitates significant efficiency enhancements across various telecommunications business processes, encompassing:

Network design
and expansion

Service sale, delivery
and provisioning

Fault
management

Network
maintenance

Physical Network Inventory

SunVizion Physical Network Inventory is the foundation for building and operating a reliable telecom network database. It captures the real, physical world of the network—sites, structures, ducts, cables, fibers, equipment and ports—and connects it into one consistent model, so teams can instantly understand what exists, where it is, how it is connected, and how much capacity is still available.
Instead of keeping separate spreadsheets, drawings and partial GIS layers, you get one operational view that supports day-to-day work across engineering, rollout, service delivery, and field operations.

One inventory for Outside Plant and Inside Plant

SunVizion lets you manage the physical network across both environments:

Outside Plant on a GIS map: record buildings, cabinets, chambers, manholes/handholes, poles, duct routes and duct segments, including assets that are owned and leased.
Inside Plant in floor plans and equipment views: document what is installed in a site down to the exact room layout, rack position and port.

This makes it easy to move from a high-level geographic view to a precise technical view—without losing context.

A connectivity model you can trust

Physical Network Inventory is built around connectivity, not just an asset list. It stores and relates:

Optical, copper and coax cables with full structure information (fibers/pairs, tubes, colors and other parameters)
Containment and routing such as duct sections, sub-ducts, risers and overhead spans
Junctions and terminations, including splice closures, splicing details and cable reserves (slack) at key points in the network
Strengthens connectivity confidence by combining accurate topology and port-level modeling with built-in engineering analysis (e.g., PON optical loss calculations and HFC signal/power verification), so designs and operational decisions are based on validated network behavior rather than assumptions.

Because assets and connections are modeled together, you can trace how the network is built, how it is used, and what is available—without guesswork.

Occupancy and capacity control where it matters most

A common cause of rollout delays is “capacity that exists on paper, but not in reality.” SunVizion addresses this by tracking real utilization of physical resources, including:

Duct and conduit occupancy and remaining space for new cables
Rack and shelf occupation, including card placement
Port states and port-level connections
This supports confident decisions such as whether a new cable can be routed through a specific duct section, whether there are enough spare fibers, or whether a port is actually free for service delivery.

Network Failure Analysis and service impact visibility

SunVizion records planned and unplanned events (maintenance, outages, repairs) and helps teams identify the failure area on the map, understand consequences in the network, and analyze impact on affected connections and services. It supports planned disconnections with outcome tracking, helps control SLA commitments (e.g., restoration/repair targets), and provides reporting on current incidents as well as historical failure rates for selected network elements.

Identifies failure consequences and shows their impact on the network and—when service relationships are available—on the services delivered to end users.
Manages planned disconnections and maintenance windows, and analyzes the outcomes to confirm what was affected and what was restored.
Helps control SLA commitments by monitoring incident and restoration timelines against agreed targets.
Provides operational reporting on current incidents and historical failure rates for network elements to support trend analysis and prioritization.

Optical and copper topology, from strands to end-to-end routes

For fiber and copper networks, SunVizion manages topology and usage at the level needed for real operations:

Available and used fibers/pairs and their capacity
Splices and splice closures that define real connectivity
Trails representing end-to-end routes and their utilization over underlying cables/fibers

Trails can be created manually, but the system also supports automated route finding—including shortest path, least-cost path, alternate route search, and the ability to find two or more diverse paths. This is particularly valuable for leased connections, resilience planning and faster service turn-up.

3D network view for better spatial understanding

SunVizion can present your inventory in a 3D view, combining terrain elevation, buildings and network assets into one spatial model. This makes it much easier to understand how infrastructure is laid out in dense urban areas, complex sites, or underground corridors—without relying on multiple drawings or site visits.
With 3D visualization you can:

Review how assets are positioned above and below ground,
Validate distances and heights with a few clicks,
Display 3D models of infrastructure elements such as pipelines and manholes,
Build a more accurate understanding of the site before sending field teams.

Augmented Reality for field teams: see hidden assets on site

Physical Network Inventory stores geo-located assets such as ducts, manholes, towers and cables. SunVizion can leverage this data to provide Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities—so field staff can visualize inventory data directly on site, in context.
AR is especially useful for:

Underground assets that are normally invisible (e.g., ducts and manholes/handholes),
Above-ground assets such as aerial cables on poles,
Asset identification and enrichment, showing key details like asset name/ID,
Containment and hierarchy, e.g., a splice case inside a pit or a cable inside a duct.

Where assets have only 2D coordinates (a common case in legacy databases), SunVizion can apply default height or depth values (e.g., standard cable height above ground or duct depth below ground) to enable practical AR visualization.

Works even better with Logical Inventory

When combined with SunVizion Logical Resource Inventory, failure and event analysis can be extended beyond physical assets to include logical relationships, bandwidth and service-facing dependencies. This gives teams a clearer view of how network incidents translate into service impact and helps prioritize restoration based on what matters most.

Benefits

Provides one reliable source of truth for physical network assets across Outside Plant and Inside Plant—so teams always work on the same, consistent data set.

Speeds up fault resolution by pinpointing affected assets on the map, tracing impact through connectivity, and guiding restoration priorities with clear visibility of what’s down and why.

Reduces rollout risk by tracking duct/conduit, rack and port occupancy, making available capacity visible before you commit to a design or an installation.

Speeds up engineering and operations by linking assets into real connectivity (cables, fibers/pairs, splices, ports), not just standalone records.

Improves service delivery readiness by showing actual spare fibers/pairs, port states and physical connections needed to activate or troubleshoot services.

Enables fast end-to-end tracing through optical and copper topology, including trails that represent real route usage over underlying cables and fibers.

Supports resilience and cost control by creating trails manually or automatically using route-finding algorithms (shortest, least-cost, alternate and diverse paths).

Increases engineering confidence with built-in PON optical loss analysis, including attenuation and signal level calculations that can be exported to documentation.

Helps field teams work faster and safer with 3D visualization and Augmented Reality, making underground and above-ground assets easier to understand and identify on site.

Logical Network Inventory

SunVizion Logical Network Inventory helps telecom operators and infrastructure providers manage the logical side of the network—how bandwidth, channels and services are carried across transmission layers such as IP/MPLS, Ethernet, WDM and SDH/PDH. It gives you a clear view of network topology, capacity, and utilization, so you can quickly find available paths, reserve resources, and understand how changes or failures affect customers and services.

If your network data is scattered across NMS tools, spreadsheets, and diagrams, SunVizion brings it into one consistent, searchable model that is built for everyday engineering and operations.

See the full logical network topology—by technology layers

SunVizion organizes your transport and IP network into logical layers, where each layer contains:

Nodes representing real network elements and their interfaces
Links representing logical connections between nodes
Bandwidth information, including total capacity and current utilization

This makes it easy to answer practical questions like:

Which route has enough free capacity for a new customer connection?
Where is the congestion building up?
Which links and ports are already booked?

Capacity visibility and easier reservation of network resources

Logical Network Inventory provides a real-time view of network occupancy / utilization. Connections can be searched, checked for availability, and reserved without manual cross-checking across multiple systems.

This is especially valuable for:

backhaul and transport networks with shared capacity,
wholesale and leased lines,
multi-layer networks where capacity in one layer depends on another.

Logical trails: track end-to-end connections and who is using them

SunVizion stores logical trails, which represent end-to-end capacity usage across a sequence of links—for example a transport trail that carries a higher-layer service.

Trails can represent:

internal transport used by the operator,
trails leased to customers (including other operators),
trails leased from third parties (with interconnect elements modeled in the network graph).

Each trail can include route, termination points, status (available, reserved, leased, defective), duration, and commercial context such as customer/contract/SLA data—so you can manage both existing services and future reservations in one place.

Automated path finding to speed up provisioning and reduce errors

Trails can be created manually, but SunVizion also supports automated routing algorithms that help you find:

the shortest path,
the least-cost path,
an alternate path (including routes without common elements),
multiple candidate paths based on filters (required nodes, number of paths, technology constraints such as WDM wavelengths).

This helps teams provision faster and improve utilization by making better routing choices.

Map logical services to physical infrastructure

SunVizion allows you to map physical resources (such as cables or channels) to logical layers, so you can understand what a logical service is actually using underneath.

This gives you end-to-end visibility—from a logical connection down to the real infrastructure that carries it—and supports better engineering decisions for upgrades, migration and resilience planning.

Inter-layer associations: understand dependencies and single points of failure

A key strength of SunVizion is the ability to connect layers into a dependency stack—for example:

fiber layer → WDM → SDH/PDH → Ethernet/IP → customer services

These inter-layer associations make it possible to trace dependencies “up and down” and identify:

shared lower-layer resources used by multiple services,
potential Single Points of Failure (SPOF),
whether backup paths are truly diverse at the lower layers.

This is essential for designing resilient networks and for accurate impact assessment during incidents.

Failure impact analysis using alarms from fault management systems

When SunVizion receives alarms from Fault Management or Network Management systems, it can use topology and inter-layer dependencies to determine:

how far the failure propagates across layers,
which logical trails, services and customers are affected,
what the downstream consequences are—often with visual support on the map.

This improves incident response, prioritization and customer communication.

Built for multi-technology transport and IP networks

SunVizion Logical Network Inventory supports the technologies commonly used in modern telecom networks, including:

WDM (DWDM/CWDM/OTN) with capacity and trail management
SDH/PDH with topology, utilization and protection visibility
Ethernet and IP/MPLS with interface-level inventory and connectivity

It is designed for real-world networks where different technologies coexist and depend on one another.

Works best together with SunVizion Physical Network Inventory

Logical Network Inventory becomes even more powerful when combined with SunVizion Physical Network Inventory, because logical topology can be linked to real infrastructure such as fiber cables, ducts, ports and sites—giving you a complete end-to-end view from map to service.

Benefits

Provides a clear, layer-based view of logical network topology (IP/MPLS, Ethernet, WDM, SDH/PDH), making complex transport networks easier to understand and manage.

Makes capacity and utilization instantly visible on links and ports, so teams can see what is free, what is booked, and where congestion is building up.

Speeds up provisioning by enabling fast search, availability checks, and reservations of network connections without manual cross-checking across tools.

Improves end-to-end connection management with logical trails that capture route, termination points, status and lifecycle details for both internal and customer-facing connectivity.

Reduces routing errors and optimizes utilization through automated path finding (shortest, least-cost, alternate and diverse routes) with filters such as required nodes or technology constraints.

Connects logical services to the underlying infrastructure by mapping logical layers to physical resources, giving true end-to-end traceability from service to cable/port.

Strengthens resilience planning by exposing inter-layer dependencies and shared resources, helping identify Single Points of Failure and validate real path diversity.

Accelerates incident response by using alarms from fault management systems to determine failure extent and identify impacted services and customers.

Supports multi-technology, multi-vendor environments with a consistent model for transport and IP networks, making modernization and network evolution easier to control.

Service Inventory

SunVizion Service Inventory is a service-centric module that helps telecom operators model, verify, activate, and manage the services they sell—while keeping every service instance tightly connected to the real network resources that deliver it. It bridges the gap between the business view of services (what you offer and sell) and the technical reality (what must be reserved, configured, and maintained in the network), so teams can move from “customer order” to “service running” in a controlled, repeatable way.

Unlike a simple service list, SunVizion Service Inventory captures the service structure, its lifecycle, and its dependencies on physical and logical assets. This gives you the operational clarity needed to scale service delivery, reduce fulfillment errors, and answer one of the most important questions in daily operations: “Which network resources are used by this service—and which services will be impacted if something fails?”

From product catalog to real service delivery

Service Inventory lets you build and maintain a catalog of customer-facing services (CFS) and define how each service decomposes into resource-facing services (RFS) that map directly to physical and logical resources managed in Resource Inventory.

In practice, this means you can model services the way the business sells them—clear, customer-friendly offers—while still capturing the technical composition that engineering and operations require. A single customer product can translate into a structured set of technical elements such as ports, addressing, bandwidth allocation, logical paths/trails, and physical connectivity. This structured modeling makes service delivery more predictable, and it reduces reliance on “tribal knowledge” that lives only in the heads of experienced engineers.

Automated feasibility checks before you commit

Before provisioning starts, SunVizion supports a service design and feasibility stage that verifies whether the service can be provided in a specific location and under the requested parameters. Instead of accepting an order and discovering constraints later, the system helps validate feasibility up front.

Typical automated checks may include:

availability of the right ports and interfaces,
availability of IP address pools and configuration prerequisites,
reachability/coverage and network constraints for the requested location,
rule-based validation aligned with your internal standards.

This is especially valuable in real-world environments where network capacity changes daily and where multiple teams touch the same resources. By confirming feasibility early, operators reduce failed installations, avoid repeated field visits, and improve customer experience from the first interaction.

Resource booking, allocation, and structured activation

Once feasibility is confirmed, Service Inventory supports booking and allocation of the network resources required to deliver the ordered service. This includes reserving scarce resources (so they cannot be taken by another order) and assigning the exact elements that will implement the service in the network.

Depending on your process and automation level, the module can help:

reserve ports and allocate throughput,
assign IP resources and other configuration components,
create service instances with a clear hierarchy of components,
prepare the service structure for downstream activation workflows.

For more complex scenarios—where manual work is required (e.g., installation or special configuration)—the service record still remains the “control point.” Tasks can be executed by the right teams, and the service can progress through its lifecycle with traceable steps and clear ownership.

Full traceability from service to resources, and back again

One of the most operationally powerful capabilities is bidirectional traceability:

Start from a service and drill down to the resources used to deliver it.
Start from a physical or logical resource and immediately see which services depend on it.

This changes how teams work day-to-day. Engineers can implement changes with more confidence, operations teams can troubleshoot faster, and customer service teams can answer queries based on facts rather than assumptions. For complex services, SunVizion can also present the structure visually—showing the service composition and its mapping to resources in an easy-to-understand diagram view.

Service impact visibility during failures

Because services are explicitly mapped to network resources, SunVizion can indicate which services are affected when a network resource fails. This is the kind of insight that typically requires manual correlation across multiple systems—but here it becomes part of the service record itself.

That has a direct operational impact: customer service teams can provide accurate information to subscribers, operations teams can prioritize restoration based on real service impact, and the organization can communicate outages more transparently and consistently.

Service quality reporting with unavailability history

Service Inventory stores a history of unavailability for each service, enabling reliable service quality reporting over time. This supports SLA and quality monitoring by providing consistent data for reporting, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Over time, this historical view helps identify recurring patterns (e.g., frequent interruptions related to a specific part of the network), supports root-cause analysis, and makes service performance measurable in a way that is easy to share internally and externally.

Benefits

Bridges business and network reality by decomposing customer-facing services into resource-facing services mapped to physical and logical inventory.

Turns your service portfolio into a structured, service-centric inventory, so every service is clearly defined, traceable, and manageable across its lifecycle.

Reduces failed orders and repeated site visits by verifying whether a service can be delivered at a specific location before you commit to fulfillment.

Speeds up service activation by booking and allocating the exact network resources required to deliver the ordered service.

Improves operational control by keeping service composition and assigned resources visible in one place, instead of scattered across tools and spreadsheets.

Enables true end-to-end traceability by letting teams drill down from a service to underlying resources—and back from a resource to dependent services.

Accelerates incident response by instantly identifying which services are affected when a network resource fails, supporting faster triage and better prioritization.

Helps customer service teams respond accurately to subscriber questions by showing service status and resource dependencies in a clear, consistent view.

Supports SLA and quality management by storing service unavailability history and enabling reliable service quality reporting over time.

Outside Plant Inventory

SunVizion Outside Plant Inventory is a modern, map-first inventory for outdoor telecom infrastructure—built to keep as-built and planned resources in one place, always consistent, and easy to use across planning, rollout, operations, and field work. It combines an enterprise-grade GIS experience with inventory depth, so the map is not just a visualization layer, but a daily operational workspace where you can search, validate, trace, reserve and update network resources with confidence.

GIS-native, telecom-ready

Outside Plant Inventory is integrated with Esri ArcGIS Server and keeps outdoor assets visible on the map together with the rich, telecom-specific data model behind them. This allows you to manage complex networks without losing GIS performance—while still capturing hundreds of configurable attributes and real relationships between objects.

You can work with multiple background map providers (e.g., OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, Esri Maps), and present the network in clear, technology-oriented layers that match how operators work in the field.

One map view for planning, rollout, and operations

Outside Plant Inventory is designed for fast work on dense networks. Teams can control what is visible by scale and layer, keep the map readable, and jump from a geographic view to the exact inventory object and its context in a few clicks.

Because the inventory supports both planned and as-built resources, the map can become a shared workspace across lifecycle stages—helping you keep rollout changes aligned with operational reality.

Field-ready routing and duct-aware cable management

Outside plant becomes truly operational when routing is based on real constraints. SunVizion supports cable routing with duct context—so you can see how a cable runs through duct routes, manholes, and specific pipes, and validate the practical feasibility of the path.

This helps reduce field surprises, improves rollout accuracy, and makes troubleshooting faster because the route is not “approximate”—it reflects how the network is actually built.

Modern spatial analytics for faster decisions

Outside Plant Inventory includes spatial queries that support practical operator workflows—such as quickly finding assets inside an area, along a corridor, or within a defined radius of an incident or construction zone. Results are returned as a selectable, actionable set of resources, making it easy to move from “what’s in the area?” to “what should we do about it?”

Designed for scale, governance, and integrations

Outside Plant Inventory is built for large, multi-team environments where data quality matters:

Access & compliance - role-based permissions and full traceability of changes support controlled operations and auditability.
Auto-discovery and reconciliation - keep inventory aligned with reality by reconciling changes and validating data against external systems.
Integration-friendly workflows - publish and consume map services to support broader OSS/BSS and enterprise integration scenarios.

A modern experience for field teams: 3D and Augmented Reality

For complex outdoor infrastructure—especially underground—SunVizion supports 3D visualization and Augmented Reality (AR) to help field staff understand assets in context, identify what is hidden, and work faster on-site (even when classic map overlays are not enough).

Shareable outputs when you need them

When you need field packs or documentation, SunVizion supports flexible map printing (single-page, fixed scale, or multi-page output) with template-driven layouts—useful for contractors and rollout teams.

Benefits

Provides a single, map-first source of truth for outside plant assets, keeping as-built and planned infrastructure consistent across planning, rollout and operations.

Accelerates daily work with a GIS-native user experience where teams can search, explore and update network objects directly on the map.

Improves rollout accuracy by managing real-world infrastructure constraints, including ducts, manholes and pipe-level routing context.

Reduces field surprises by validating routes and connectivity against the actual duct network structure before execution.

Speeds up impact assessment and change decisions through modern spatial analytics (area, corridor and radius-based queries) that return actionable asset sets.

Increases data trust with enterprise governance, including role-based access, auditability and controlled updates across multi-team environments.

Keeps inventory aligned with reality through auto-discovery and reconciliation workflows integrated with external operational systems.

Helps field teams work faster and safer with 3D and Augmented Reality, making underground and above-ground assets easier to understand and identify on site.

Enables smooth integration and sharing by publishing and consuming map services, supporting broader OSS/BSS workflows and partner collaboration.

Inside Plant Inventory

SunVizion Inside Plant Inventory is the indoor-focused part of SunVizion Network Inventory designed to manage network resources located in buildings, central offices, data centers, and communication huts. It combines a structured inventory model with practical visual tools—so teams can clearly see where equipment is installed, how space is used, how ports are occupied, and how indoor connectivity is built.

It extends both Resource Inventory and Logical Inventory, which means indoor assets are not stored in isolation. They can be linked to the wider network model, supporting consistent operations across planning, rollout, service delivery and maintenance.

A structured model that matches the way engineers work

Inside Plant Inventory reflects the real structure of telecom sites and allows users to navigate through a clear hierarchy:

building → floor → room → cabinet → rack → shelves/subracks → cards/slots → ports

This makes everyday tasks faster: locating equipment, confirming what is installed in a specific room or rack, understanding how a device is built internally, and finding the exact port used for a connection.

Floor plans that become an operational workspace

SunVizion turns indoor layouts into a working environment—not static drawings. You can create calibrated floor plan schemas based on underlays and define installation locations directly on the plan. This helps teams manage indoor space with much higher accuracy, especially in large sites where the same rooms and layouts repeat.

The result is a site view that is intuitive for field and operations teams: you see the room plan, equipment placement and site structure in one consistent context.

Inside Plant Inventory

Rack and device views with real occupancy control

Inside Plant Inventory provides practical equipment views that support day-to-day installation and maintenance work. You can visualize racks and devices from multiple perspectives (front/rear/top) and manage how equipment occupies slots—including devices that span multiple slots and scenarios where installation must follow defined placement rules.

This approach is especially useful when many teams work on the same sites over time: it keeps rack layouts consistent, reduces errors, and makes available capacity visible at a glance.

Data quality enforced through compatibility rules

Indoor inventory quickly becomes unreliable if users can install “anything anywhere.” SunVizion supports model-driven compatibility and placement rules that control what can be inserted into a given slot or rack position (for example, which card types are allowed in which shelves).

When a user attempts an invalid installation, the system can prevent the action and clearly explain why—protecting data quality and reducing costly mistakes that only show up later during provisioning or troubleshooting.

Indoor connectivity built for fiber distribution and patching

Inside Plant Inventory supports indoor termination and distribution components such as ODFs, patch panels and splitters, enabling you to represent how fiber is terminated, patched and distributed inside a site.

You can model realistic port pools and connection constraints, which helps teams maintain accurate patching records and avoid “unknown” or undocumented changes that typically slow down fault resolution and service activation.

Auto-discovery and reconciliation with NMS/EMS

To reduce manual work and keep inventory aligned with reality, SunVizion can support auto-discovery and reconciliation workflows based on data from Network/Element Management Systems (NMS/EMS). This helps validate what is installed and how it is configured, identify discrepancies, and keep key information consistent across operational tools.

For modern networks, this is an important step toward continuously improving data accuracy—especially in high-change environments where equipment and configurations evolve quickly.

Access control, auditability and compliance-ready operations

Inside Plant Inventory supports enterprise-grade access and compliance practices. You can apply granular permissions so different teams (engineering, operations, contractors) can access only what they need, while the system maintains traceability of changes.

This makes it easier to manage shared environments safely, reduce the risk of unauthorized edits, and support internal governance requirements where auditability and controlled change are essential.

Built-in libraries for multi-technology networks

SunVizion includes libraries of commonly used device types across a wide range of technologies—covering fiber, coax and copper domains as well as radio and transport/IP environments (SDH/PDH, IP, WDM, GSM/UMTS/LTE and more). This helps standardize modeling and speeds up onboarding for new sites and teams.

Benefits

Provides a clear, structured view of indoor network assets—from building and room level down to racks, cards and ports—so teams can find and manage equipment faster.

Turns floor plans into an operational workspace with calibrated layouts and precise equipment placement, improving site visibility and space management.

Makes rack capacity and occupancy easy to control through practical device views that reflect real installation constraints and multi-slot equipment placement.

Improves data accuracy by enforcing compatibility and placement rules, preventing incorrect installations and keeping inventory consistent over time.

Keeps indoor connectivity reliable by modeling ODFs, patch panels and splitters with realistic port structures and connection constraints.

Reduces manual effort and closes the “as-built vs as-recorded” gap through auto-discovery and reconciliation with NMS/EMS data sources.

Strengthens operational governance with role-based access control, auditability and compliance-ready change traceability.

Accelerates onboarding and standardization using built-in libraries of common device types across multiple telecom technologies and vendors.

Improves coordination between engineering, operations and field teams by linking inside-plant assets to the wider SunVizion Resource and Logical Inventory model.

Workflow

Through integration with Workflow, SunVizion Network Inventory can support and automate business processes by utilizing data about network resources. Examples of these processes include network maintenance, network planning and development, reservation, service activation, and verification of resource availability.

Workflow Process Designer

Graphical interface for defining tasks, their relationships, and the flow between them
Easy management of processes related to network infrastructure and sales of the services. Examples include device installation, repair, network expansion, and service activation processes.

Process Management Web Interface

Enables assignment of task to specific employees or roles, and to departments or other organizational units
Detects errors and inconsistencies during the design phase, before initiating the operational process

Rollout Project Dashboard View

Monitors network design status, progress, and key investment parameters
Reduce inefficiencies caused by repeated data entry, data inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and under-utilization

Benefits

Decreasing the time for the order-to-bill cycle

Integration of all relevant operations in one complete enterprise system

Reduction of investments processes delays and costs related to them

Seamless collaboration of different actors and departments

Reduction of time and cost of devices modifications, optimizations and adjustment

What is a Network Inventory System?

Network Inventory Systems are the tools used by network operators to itemise and manage the assets and infrastructure that the network is comprised of. However, the network inventory extends beyond the switches and routers that most people immediately think of.

Telecom Network Inventory includes:

Physical devices (switches, routers, multiplexers, modems, cards, splice cases, splitters / combiners, storage arrays and much more)
Logical and virtual infrastructure (virtual machines, firewalls, load balancers and more)
Containment (buildings, rooms, racks, ducts, pits, towers, poles and more)

What’s the difference between a network inventory system and an asset management system?

The examples above are network assets that are “nodal” in nature, just like asset management systems. However, the big difference between a typical asset management solution and telecom network inventory solutions comes down to the importance of “connectivity” and “associations” that only the Telecom Network inventory Solutions provide. These are fundamental to managing a network of any significant size and complexity.

Telecom network inventory solutions provide the “glue” using objects including:

Physical connectivity (cables, patch-leads, splices / connectors, radio links, etc)
Logical connectivity (virtual circuits, virtual private networks, end-to-end circuits that link other network segments like the physical connection types above)
Network Associations (customer to circuit, IP address to port or device, service identifier to physical / logical connection, field workforce to job and related spares, network devices to map locations, etc)

How network inventory facilitates Root cause and Service Impact Analysis (RCA / SIA)?

Network inventory provides connectivity and the associations (in the dot-points above) that allow root-causes to be identified from the consequential alarms / alerts. It’s also the network inventory solution’s connectivity and associations that allows a network operator to identify which services and customers are identified during an outage. It’s also this inventory network that helps provide network / capacity planners and other operations staff with an understanding of network utilisation trends. These activities help to ensure ongoing network health, optimisation and profitability.