Today telecommunication network operators face unprecedented pressure to embrace operating efficiency. Fast service provisioning together with lean operation and maintenance crews providing a high quality of service have become crucial objectives for service providers. Cost, pressure and lack of experienced network design engineers are other problems operators have to deal with.

By automating the network and service provisioning processes the Networking Package (NP) provides the necessary features to fulfill the above mentioned customer demands. This application provides a superior solution that satisfies the needs of network operators in their daily work - configuring and maintaining their network. Both service provisioning and capacity planning – supported by the powerful reporting capability – across multiple transmission technologies provided by the FOX61x and FOX51x platforms.

The Networking Package (NP) provides an end-to-end provisioning of circuits and trails across FOX61x or FOX51x networks (excluded from the NP are MPLS-TP circuits which are managed by the ENP, see Ethernet Networking Package).

As access networks are located in the periphery of operator networks, connecting the subscribers to the various services located on servers or switches in the central offices, it is necessary to create circuits starting in a FOX61x or FOX51x network and terminating in the equipment delivered by another vendor. These types of applications are well supported in the Networking Package.

The NP offers a faster and much more convenient solution for the user, compared to the circuit configuration based on the FOXCST or UCST, where the cross-connects have to be configured for each network element individually. In addition, operators have the possibility to document the circuits according to their company internal standards.

The ability to create all types of protected end-to-end connections supported by the hardware of the FOX61x/FOX51x allows the operator to provide services with a high reliability. The switch-over to the protected circuit in case of failure is done by the hardware in less than 50 ms.

The Networking Package is offered as a separate option to the FOXMAN-UN Basic Package.

It does not require installation as it is installed when the Basic Package itself is installed.

The Administrator can grant access rights to the Networking Package for other operators from the main Security menu.

It is enabled if ‘Networking Package’ option is activated in the License Key.