Overview:

Our Wireless LAN Operations Management Center (WLAN OMC) is a carrier-grade management solution for Wireless Network Element Management System (NMS). It provides a comprehensive and intuitive interface to automatically discover, configure, and monitor the status & performance of WLAN network elements and network deployments. The following are the main features of our product:
1. Network device discovery and mapping
2. Device configuration and management
3. Fault and alarm management/notification
4. Element and network performance management
5. Pay-As-You-Grow Scalability
6. Security management

The management platform is scalable from small deployments comprising 10s of devices up to large-scale municipal deployments of 30,000 managed devices. The platform is based on highly-scalable pay-as-you-grow client/server distributed architecture and uses standard SNMP protocols to remotely manage the devices over wired and wireless backhaul links. The platform is also equipped with northbound interfaces (NBI) to existing Operations Support System (OSS) / Business Support System (BSS) infrastructure.

Customers who already used our product:

Key Benefits:

• Complete fault management monitoring, alarm and notification capabilities
  
• Geographical maps and multiple logical topology views
  
• Comprehensive performance management for Boco Soft devices, and third-party CPE and clients
  
• Remote device configuration and bulk configuration and firmware upgrade capabilities
  

Key Features:

• Non-stop, real-time monitoring and control of Boco Soft Wi-Fi network deployments
  
• Proactively monitor and manage network devices and network health
  
• Sophisticated network and RF performance management capabilities
  
• Highly-scalable pay-as-you-grow system architecture
  

Features In Detail:

1. Network Discovery and Mapping:
The NMS platform supports three types of topology views:

• Navigation topology tree
  
• Logical spanning tree map layout
  
• Geographical map that positions the devices based on their longitude and latitude readings from the devices.
  

In addition to the standard network topology view, the system allows the user to organize the network into hierarchical sub maps.

2. Device Configuration and Management:
The NMS platform simplifies network deployments and maintenance by providing full device configuration, diagnosis and control of Wi-Fi base stations via an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). It also supports scheduling and execution of firmware upgrades for individual or multiple devices. The platform also enables backup and restore of device configurations in bulk and optionally scheduled modes.

3. Fault and Alarm Management/Notification
The NMS platform also provides a comprehensive fault management system with active alarms and events display.

• Assign severities for each alarm detected. Assign color codes and propagate up the topology hierarchy. Provides alarm summary counters per severity.
  
• Sort and filter alarm functions on system-wide basis. View per-device alarm logs.
  
• Configure email notification parameters for various alarm states.
  
• Open alarm table accessible to Northbound Operations Support System (OSS) via SNMP. The open alarm table can be read from 3rd party OSS with complete trap forwarding support.
  

4. Element and Network Performance Management
The NMS platform provides rich historical and real-time statistical performance graphs with multiple sample resolutions and presentation views. Performance statistics are available for:

• Physical 802.11 backhaul/mesh and access radio interfaces
  
• SSIDs
  
• VLANs
  
• Associated Wi-Fi clients
  
• Third-party Wi-Fi CPE equipment
  

Network operators can compare or correlate performance on one or more parameters of one or multiple managed entities. The Performance Management module also provides valuable information about spectrum utilization in the access channels, non-Wi-Fi interference, directional gain, traffic distribution and allowing network operators to proactively analyze and optimize the performance of their wireless network.

5. Pay-As-You-Grow Scalability
The NMS platform provides tools to monitor and configure small networks (10s of elements) all the way to large-scale networks (up to 1,000 elements). And the licensing scheme is based on the number of managed devices so it is a simple and cost-effective platform to scale as needs evolve.

6. Security Management
The NMS platform provides a highly secured management system. Security features include:

• User management - authorization with interface to LDAP server and customized user privileges profiling
  
• Audit trail logs of all sensitive management tasks
  
• All sessions between the clients and server are encrypted and authenticated via secured HTTPS; client can reside behind firewalls
  

Technology Used:

• J2EE (JMS,MDB,EJB)
  
• JBoss
  
• Oracle, MySQL, Hibernat
  

Success Story:

During 2008 Beijing Olympic Game, the Olympic Commission and China Mobile jointly provided wireless service platform to media, journalist, organizer, etc., to access service platform anytime anywhere. Our product is used to manage the wireless network elements/devices.