Ensemble Director is a fully featured management platform that enables creation and deployment of virtualized services. It offers the freedom to create your own application or integrate virtualized services into existing IT infrastructure. Through open APIs, Ensemble Director provides traditional FCAPS capabilities for physical and virtual network elements, whether provided by ADVA Optical Networking or third-party suppliers. Its intelligent service assurance transforms the performance and cost of your network and its highly customizable GUI provides complete visualization and total control.

1. Ensemble Director
April 2017

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Ensemble Director
• Ensemble Director represents our latest, industrial-class network
management solution optimized for today’s innovative networks and
technologies
• Built with a future-proof design to address tomorrow’s technologies and
networking opportunities
• Web 2.0 thin-client model
• Open, extensible architecture
• Virtual design
• Live extensibility
• Distributed architecture
• Hosted on commodity servers
• Carrier-class high availability
• Massive scalability
• Multi-domain support
• Industry standard interfaces: Web,
CLI, SNMP, CSV, REST, NETCONF,
RESTconf
Infrastructure Features

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Framework
• Fault management
• Performance
monitoring
• Security
• Provisioning
• Inventory
• Nodal discovery
• Topology discovery
• TCA monitoring
Core Components
• Quick service provisioning
• End-to-end service
management
• Optical, NFV/SDN services
• Service faults monitoring
• Service assurance
Services
• Open API architecture
• Supports custom and third-party applications
• Dynamic loading/unloading of apps
Application Extensions

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Fully customizable GUI
Client-agnostic browser support
• Desktop, tablet, mobile
Network discovery
Geographical maps
Network domain, nodal and service views
Multi-tenancy (NaaS)
Features - I
Visualization/Control
Continuous surveillance:
• Network, node and service level
Alarm correlation and filtering
Alarm profiles (latching alarms)
Alarm acknowledge and comments
Faults Monitoring
Reliable access to nodes
High level of security
Service-based provisioning
End-to-end management
Configuration
Automatic and manual data
synchronization from NEs
High-speed processing
Robust and reliable engine
Historical events logging
Audit Sync and Event Processing
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Performance KPI collection
Collection templates
Extensive graphical capabilities
Customizable views
(charts, graphs, tables)
Data consolidation exporting
Data Collection and Reporting
Multi-Domain/Tenancy Support
Enabling network-as-a-service
User Management
User activity (audit) logging
Local and remote authentication
Fine-grain security policy definitions
Data/Communication Security
Encrypted communications
Encrypted database options
Features - II
Security Features
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Centralized software management
Automatic backup and restore
• Nodal configurations
• System database
Housekeeping

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Advanced Graphical User Interface
HTML-5 flex box layout module
Adapt automatically to tablet
and mobile devices
Mobility
Google material design
• Standardized visual model
• Intuitive familiar interface
Scalable vector graphics (SVG)
• Navigate by graphics
• Zoom in/out
Advanced Look and Feel
Create customized views per user
• Content and layout
Tailor GUI to operational workflows
Composability

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OSS Integration (Northbound API)
• Inventory reporting
hardware, services, topology
• Fault reporting
• Performance monitoring
CSV
• Inventory reporting
• Service/traffic configuration
• Performance monitoring
XML (MTOSI)
• Full configuration and monitoring
• Fault reporting (via web sockets)
REST
• Fault reporting (traps)
• PM retrieval (limited)
SNMP
• Full configuration and monitoring
• Notifications
NETCONF
• Full configuration and monitoring
• Notifications
RESTCONF

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Architecture
• VM-based infrastructure
• Interface tier
• User interfaces
• GUI, CLI, REST
• OSS/BSS/SDN interfaces
• REST, SNMP, CSV, NETCONF, RESTCONF,
MTOSI
• Application tier
• Network/service applications
• Platform administration
• Database
• Mediation tier
• Vendor-specific mediation to NEs
• REST/JSON
• NETCONF/XML
• ... Future protocols
Mediation Tier
Application Tier
Interface Tier
ADVA Vendor A Vendor B
Database
DB
Applications
Discovery
Fault
PM
Admin
Config
Accounting
Security
DB
Service Mgr.
Topology
Monitor
Config
...
GUI CLI REST RESTSNMPNETCONF
CLI
CSV

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Platforms
• Multiple OS support options:
• Ubuntu 15.10
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (future)
• VirtualBox on Windows
• (lab/demo environments)
• KVM for installed hardware platforms
• IPv4 and IPv6 support

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Scaling
Single User Multi Server ClusterMulti User
Lab/Demo
NE’s : 1-10
Users : 1
Small Network
NE’s : 200-5000
Users : 1-50
Large Network
NE’s : 5000-50,000
Users : 50-100

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High Availability
• Carrier class high-availability solution
• N:M VM redundancy model provides inherent
redundancy
• “Five nines” availability
• Immunity from multiple failure conditions
• Immediate failover/recovery
• Load-balancing provides performance assurance
• In-service upgrades
• Geographic redundancy made easy by VM model