Key Features
The major benefit of ConnectMaster is its integrated solution for "Physical AND Logical Network Ressource Management".
For the physical network ressource managment, ConnectMaster offers a complete and accurate representation of the physical network, covering all physical inventory objects that a telecom network provides, from the switch to the customer. By integrating inside and outside plant data into a single, seamless database, ConnectMaster provides an end-to-end network view that allows you to manipulate and visualize the network model at any level.
For the logical ressource managment, ConnectMaster allows the user to document, model and manage the logical connections and circuits that run over your physical network infrastructure. The user can plan capacity, allocate bandwidth and assign circuits to ensure that the network keeps pace with the demand for new services and new connections, while utilizing capacity as efficiently as possible.
Wide Range of Applications
Due to its neutral structure, ConnectMaster can be used for a wide range of applications. ConnectMaster is designed primarliy for the management of telecom-, signal-, control-, and IT cable networks. ConnectMaster also provides an efficient solution to documentation issues in utilities where the complexity and quantity of cabling and wiring schematics or patches rules out the use of conventional methods.
The Graphical tool Visio (Microsoft) is embedded into ConnectMaster, which gives the user the possibility of drawing the different elements composing schematic networks, or asking the system to generate automatically the drawings. The mapping tool MapInfo/MapX is also embedded into ConnectMaster. The MapInfo/MapX module makes it possible to route ducts, cables and locate all hardware element directly on the map, getting the benefit of a direct transfer of all the information between the database and the mapping tool.
Standard Functionality
Management and maintenance of network component master data
- Network node equipment (ODF`s, cabinets, racks, panels, multiplexers, etc.)
- Cables (copper, fiber optic, hybrid, radio links, etc.)
- Ducts / Subducts, Chambers
- patches, splices
- physical end-to-end circuits
Management of physical and logical connections
- Signal and channel assignment
- Services
- Administration of various network topologies
Management and maintenance of location data
- Configurable labeling system
- DIN, KKS, customized
Network routing
- Auto-routing / patching
- Selection by criteria (optimization)
- Single- or multi-lead routes
- Substitute routes
Management of muliplexer systems
- SDH, PDH, DWDM, IP systems
- channel and crossconnect management
- logical end-to-end circuits
- mux port assignment
- worker / protection management
Order management
- Patch jobs
- Switching
- Connecting or disconnecting terminal strips
- Cable cuts, splicings
Connection input
- By a simple mouse click
- Multiple connections with automatic two-way reference
- Connections attributes
- Bridges, multiple patches
- Connection rules
Network routing
- Auto-routing / patching
- Selection by criteria (optimization)
- Single- or multi-lead routes
- Substitute routes
- Signal trace for troubleshooting
Information Management
- free definable attributes for all network and infrastructure objects
- comprehensive search and filter system
- no limitation in network size, attributes, users
- comprehesnive documentation and reporting features
General features
- Multi lingual user Interface (German, English, Swedish, French...)
- Support of Windows Standards
- open system, based on standards (database, graphics, API)
- Support of web clients via Citrix Metaframe
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