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Assure^NRM™ (Network Resource Management)

AssureNRM™

Supported by an industry-standard Oracle database, AssureNRM offers a rich, but friendly, user interface familiar to any Windows user. The system’s extensible data model ensures rapid adaptability and flexible, customer-driven modeling. AssureNRM models are hierarchical and fit the structure of ISP devices perfectly. In addition, AssureNRM offers the user multiple views of the data, from hierarchical (tree-view) to textual to graphical (diagrams). AssureNRM also supports flexible circuit design and tracking.
AssureNRM includes an extensive import/export system that is used to exchange data with Element Management Systems and other ISP management systems. For more extension integration efforts, AssureNRM offers a rich, open Web Services API.

In today's competitive communications environment, a provider's ability to grow profitably depends on its ability to efficiently leverage capital investment as their network is expanded in response to changing customer demands. It has been estimated that in a typical network, 20-30 percent of network assets are stranded, meaning that they are available for use but not identified as such in the network's inventory management system. Assure^NRM is designed to address this critical resource allocation issue.

Assure^NRM integrates graphical information such as maps, engineering plans, schematics, and digital photos with verified inventory data to create and display complex information in a relational database. Information is made easily accessible to users throughout the organization via a familiar Windows based client application. And to facilitate the transition from legacy inventory systems, Assure^NRM offers sophisticated data import tools to minimize data migration costs and drastically reduce the possibility of human error in the conversion process.

Assure^NRM Features

Unique in its class, Assure^NRM is an easy-to-use, feature-rich tool for network inventory management and planning. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of the communications industry to ensure that maximum benefit can be obtained from expensive plant assets. Following are some of the key features of Assure^NRM:

Serves as a repository of common equipment and customer assignable resources
Manages the assignment and status of customer circuits and bandwidth
Supports multi-vendor networks for any transmission media and networking system
Maintains detailed equipment inventory information about network locations, from central offices to customer premises
Integration with Spatial E-Suite applications gives a consolidated view of both outside plant and central office equipment resources

Benefits

Deploying Assure^NRM as a part of your plant inventory and management infrastructure provides many benefits:

Provides a complete inventory of central office equipment throughout the enterprise
Allows the sharing of up-to-date and accurate information concerning the allocation of network resources to individual customers
Offers the ability to track both physical and logical assets in a single system, reducing the number of OSS components needed to model the network
Improves response times for delivery of transmission services to end users
Provides a means to recapture stranded assets, making better use of capital investments in network capacity

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