Connection and Protocol Extensions For Your OSS

With the emergence of 3G technologies, there are new demands on your OSS to communicate across a broader range of network connections and protocols. The ArTracTM G4 Connection Manager can economically provide you with the additional port expansion, data management features, and protocol extensions that you need to meet the demands of your evolving network. The ArTrac G4 can provide port expansion for up to 512 network connections per node as well as support for all of the latest network protocols, including SNMP, XML, SOAP, UDP, TCP/IP, HTML, DHTML, ASN.1, TL1, MML, to name a few. It also provides the following powerful features for your OSS connectivity:

• Managed Connectivity - ArTrac G4 makes sure that all network connections remain connected
• Listener functionality - Besides originating connections, ArTrac G4 can listen for inbound connections from network elements.
• Receive SNMP Traps - Translate OID based syntax into human readable events
• Data translation - modify the contents of the data stream in real time
• Structure conversion - convert network element messages to XML or other formats to integrate older network languages into newer OSS functionality
• Buffering - limited only by allocated hard drive space
• Filtering - forward only relevant data to the OSS
• Data stream archiving and retrieval - retains over a full year of raw data stream contents
• Data multiplexing - intelligently merge multiple data streams into one
• Event packaging - deliver network messages to your OSS with port identifiers, node identifiers, corrected network element date and time, Beginning of Record, and End of Record tags for faster and more flexible processing upstream
• Sanity checking - makes sure that ports are not only connected but communicating with rational data
• Per port script integration - create connection scripts for auto-logon, security access, route selection, and other complex connection operations
• Heartbeat management - prevents connected network elements from timing out their connections
• Data nailup - connect one data stream to another or convert listeners into talkers or visa versa
• Failover data routing - if the primary data connection fails, switch over to alternate connectivity
• Network element recovery - sends diagnostic commands to network elements to recover connectivity and rational communications
• Telnet bridging and monitoring of data streams - use any telnet console (or the ArTrac G4 Mainframe Access plug-in) to bridge managed data streams without risk of interrupting data flow
• Maintenance watch functions - set up “watches” for specific raw data events and view the results in real-time via telnet session