MYCOM OSI, the leading
independent provider of Assurance, Automation and Analytics solutions to the
world's largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced the
latest version of MYCOM OSI EAA Cloud Platform delivering cloud native deployment
and unified management services for its
Experience Assurance
and Analytics
(EAA) suite of applications, including performance management, fault
management, service quality management, automation and analytics.
MYCOM
OSI recently announced the launch
of its cloud native EAA solution that, powered by MYCOM OSI EAA Cloud
Platform, enables CSPs to increase agility and efficiency through automated
network and service operations. The platform also enables CSPs to assure their
telco clouds, in which Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software
Defined Networking (SDN) architectures use state-of-the-art IT cloud
technology. Telco clouds are critical in enabling a CSP to transform its
businesses to become a Digital Service Provider (DSP) and profit from increased
customer experience, agility and cost reductions as well as taking advantage of
the latest digital services, IoT and 5G opportunities.
MYCOM
OSI's EAA Cloud Platform delivers an open and flexible framework with key
capabilities across three broad areas: cloud native technology, unified data
management and common services for all its EAA applications.
Cloud Native
Technology
- agile, automated and low cost operations
Built
with microservices, the MYCOM OSI EAA Cloud Platform relies on a container
architecture and cloud management in order to deliver infrastructure
independence, elastic scaling and high availability for MYCOM OSI's EAA
applications. Key capabilities include:
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Infrastructure-agnostic:
deployable on bare metal, virtualized datacenters, private and public cloud
environments with industry standard IaaS technologies enabling rapid, flexible
low cost deployments that can seamlessly change and scale as required
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High
availability and scaling: self-orchestrating with automated scaling,
replication and upgrade of software components without impacting the rest of
the platform. This simplifies operations, minimizes downtime disruption and
delivers high availability. Continuous monitoring of system health and
resources ensures near zero downtime
MYCOM
OSI's EAA Cloud Platform brings DevOps automation and governance of the managed
applications with continuous, incremental software delivery through test,
integration and production lifecycles. This reduces the need for IT support,
enables faster and improved utilization of infrastructure and reduces
deployment and operations effort by 75% versus traditional assurance systems.
Unified Data
Management and Services - integrated service assurance
MYCOM
OSI's EAA Cloud Platform collapses the assurance data silos that exist with
legacy OSS systems through a common data architecture that enables data to be
shared between all its EAA applications, including performance management,
fault management and service quality management. This includes unified
topologies, network and service inventories as well as the extraction of smart
data from streaming and telemetry sources and external data lakes. Key
capabilities include:
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Common
data sources for all applications, topology, service and network inventory data
that enable cross-domain analysis and correlation, delivering integrated views
and analysis across network, services, customer and device layers
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Real
time discovery of inventory changes for virtualized networks and automated
onboarding providing the necessary level of agility to assure on-demand
networks and services, improving visibility and service quality
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Common
support services for management of system health, security and platform
orchestration to reduce operational complexity and costs
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Big data
integration using standard methodologies including Spark, Kafka, smart data and
streaming sources
Open Flexible
Framework
- agnostic to NFV and cloud ecosystems
The
MYCOM OSI EAA Cloud Platform is open and integrates with a wide range of NFV
and IT cloud ecosystem components via Open APIs, and includes:
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Use of
industry standard APIs including TM Forum Open APIs, ETSI, OASIS TOSCA and
others to ensure seamless and flexible integration with the telco cloud
ecosystem
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Unified
Kafka messaging bus architecture providing bi-directional integration with
Virtualized Network Function (VNF), Virtualized Event Stream (VES), data lakes
and data hubs
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Integration
with NFV orchestrators, SDN/SDN-WAN orchestrators, virtual infrastructure
managers, element management systems and OSS systems
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Integration
with customer experience management, service management and BSS systems
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Dynamic
integration with lifecycle service orchestrators and service catalogues,
allowing automated onboarding and accelerated monitoring of new services. It
supports TOSCA and YANG models and ad-hoc integration with proprietary CMDB models
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Open
flexible framework: MYCOM OSI EAA Cloud Platform integrates with a wide range
of virtualization and IT cloud ecosystems via Open APIs including TM Forum Open
APIs, OpenStack, VMWare, data lakes, Kafka, MEF LSO, ETSI, ONAP, SDN and OPNFV
to ensure seamless integration
"Moving
assurance systems to the cloud is critical for CSPs to increase agility and
reduce costs as they pursue strategies for automating operations and deploying
virtualized networks" says Paul Ghanime, MYCOM OSI's Vice President of Product
Management. "MYCOM OSI's EAA Cloud Platform customers, including the world's first
telco cloud
and one of the top five largest CSPs globally, are already enjoying these
benefits, as well as easier integration with the wider ecosystem through an
open flexible framework."