Definition

Physical inventory management on the U2000 applies to equipment rooms, racks, NEs, subracks, boards, subboards, ports, optical/electrical modules, fibers/cables, and microwave links.

Benefits

With the physical inventory management function, the U2000 can query, collect statistics on, and maintain physical inventories to help carriers plan services and network expansion.

Physical inventory information can be exported to an XLS, TXT, HTML, or CSV file for carriers to use and query live-network data.

Function Description

l   Telecommunications Room Management: With the telecommunications room management function, you can query, maintain, and collect statistics on telecommunications rooms. Telecommunications room management provides information such as the quantity and locations of telecommunications rooms on the network.

l   Rack Management: With the rack management function, you can query, maintain, and collect statistics on racks. Rack management provides information such as the quantity, type, and associated telecommunications rooms of racks on the network.

l   NE management: With the NE management function, you can query, maintain, and collect statistics on NEs. Specifically, you can learn the following information about the NEs on the live network: NE types, NE quantity, quantity of equivalent NEs, and physical locations. Such information helps you quickly ascertain the network condition in your area and work out service and capacity expansion plans.

l   Subrack Management: With the subrack management function, you can query, maintain, and collect statistics on subracks. Subrack management provides information such as types, quantity, and associated NEs of subracks on the network.

l   Board Management: With the board management function, you can query and maintain boards, and collect statistics on boards. Board management provides information such as types, quantity, and associated NEs of boards on the network.

l   Subboard Management: With the subboard management function, you can query, maintain, and collect statistics on subboards. Subboard management provides information of subboards on the network.

l   Port Management: With the port management function, you can query and maintain ports. Port management provides information such as types, quantity, and associated NEs of ports on the network.

l   Optical/electrical Module Management: Optical module management refers to querying, maintaining, and collecting statistics on optical/electrical modules.

l    Fiber/Cable/Microwave Link Management: Fiber/Cable/Microwave Link management refers to the operations of creating, querying, collecting statistics on, and maintaining fibers/cables/microwave links. Fiber/Cable/Microwave Link management provides information such as types, levels/capacities, lengths, and media of fibers/cables/microwave links among NEs so that network status can be learned in time and carriers' service planning and capacity expansion plans can be supported. Current alarms and historical alarms of fibers/cables/microwave links can also be queried.