Use Cases & Outcomes

Discover your unused network and capacity

Likely only 70% of your inventory is accurate. Reduce service delivery and assurance durations by 90% or more leveraging the ‘truth.’

Save time spent manually reconciling

Stop wasting time trying to maintain records while your network is constantly evolving.

Industry best practice reflects 3%-5% is ‘available’

Identify network and capacity that is already in place to reuse and grow – which means potentially tens of millions in savings.

Network as the Inventory

netFLEX® provides realtime inventory using the ‘network as the source’ enabling service providers and operators with the most up-to-date representation as required for service instantiation and change, as well as for service assurance and understanding of realtime service path, topology, and correlation.

Direct, Active, & Accurate Inventory

netFLEX directly connects to and actively communicates with network elements (NEs) to discover the network from the network and automatically detect changes in near-realtime to ensure accurate inventory data of NEs, cards, services, and more.

• Design & instantiate services from ‘as-is-inventory’

• Eliminate provisioning errors caused by stale inventory data

• Service assurance based on the ‘network as source’

• Realtime service path for assurance automation

• Equip network planners with accurate data on usage and utilization

• Equip network engineers with accurate data on existing circuits and routes.

• Stay on top of capacity management with a real understanding of network inventory

  • Don’t be surprised when you run out of capacity

  • Don’t unintentionally grow network when network already exists

Open & Personalized Inventory

netFLEX inventory data is made easily accessible from its web-based reports and standard API framework.

• Customizable reports provide a view of only what’s needed

• Pinpoint NE and card locations

• Discover available capacity

• Reconcile stale OSS inventory data

• Ensure that customers are not impacted during network grooms or migrations

Discovery – See it all!

netFLEX provides reporting of all auto-discovered elements, which users can query, sort, and filter to show just the data they need (UI or API). Available data includes:

• Network element & equipment type

• Vendor

• Equipment type

• In service status

• Serial numbers if reported by the network element

• Firmware revisions if reported by the network element

• Graphical shelf views for supported equipment types

• Vendor-specific information

• And much much more…

WDM Usage & Utilization Reporting

netFLEX® provides usage and utilization reporting to help users identify available wave capacity, whether in a given WDM network element, or an entire WDM network. Available reports also include:

• Wavelength Services

• Facility

• Neighbor

• Network Layout

• Wavelength Usage

• Wavelength Usage Matrix

netFLEX® WDM usage and utilization reporting tells users precisely what they have in their network and how it’s being used.

Wide Vendor & Technology Support

As with all netFLEX capabilities, its inventory features support a wide range of vendors and technologies including DWDM, OTN, DCI, SONET, and more, from leading vendors such as Adva, Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Infinera, Nokia, and many more.