Fiber access technology expert and wholly owned subsidiary of Communications Systems (News - Alert), Transition Networks, recently released its highly anticipated Converge Element and Service Management System. Described as an intelligent, highly scalable, carrier-grade solution for simplifying the management and service provisioning of Transition's carrier Ethernet products, Converge EMS boasts powerful performance monitoring to help service providers meet complex service-level agreements (SLAs).

Transition actually partnered with Amartus, a company with extensive network management and OSS domain expertise, to co-develop Converge EMS. In fact, the solution is powered by the Amartus Chameleon OS platform, resulting in a standards-based , fully integrated service and resource manager for MEF (News - Alert) CE 2.0 services. As such, Converge EMS supports the full service life cycle — including design, deployment and operation — of end-to-end CE 2.0 services and devices.

All in all, the solution's powerful and detailed service design capabilities allow service providers to quickly build and maintain a catalog of differentiated service offerings.

"Converge EMS ... leverages the advanced CE 2.0 features of Transition Networks’ (News - Alert) NIDS and access switches," said Kevin Faulds, director of Product Management at Transition Networks. "Converge EMS helps service providers better compete by offering differentiated services and reducing OpEx through proactive problem identification, while accelerating revenue recognition by meeting customer SLA requirements, and improving customer satisfaction."

The primary key feature of Converge EMS is its operational, administrative and maintenance fault and performance monitoring dashboards, which display a customizable, real-time view of the network and key performance indicators based on IEEE (News - Alert) 802.1ag and ITU-T .1723 measurements. However, Converge's integrated service manager also measures high on the list of key features as it enables a granular service design, as well as quick and efficient end-to-end service provisioning.

Amartus recently demonstrated how carrier Ethernet 2.0 service delivery can be fully automated using its Service Commander software. Service Commander enables services providers to quickly design, deploy and operate services that fully exploit the capabilities of CE 2.0.

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