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BRIAN SANTO
Upgrading the physical elements of a broadband network to provide new voice services is only half the battle. Once the equipment is installed, voice services have to be provisioned, and that is not a trivial task.
"Management is a challenge for hardware companies," says Robin Lesieur, product manager, network management systems for General Bandwidth. "Even with the best hardware, you have to have management, or you don't have revenues."
Service providers are demanding that carrier-class voice-over-broadband hardware be supported by a sophisticated element management system (EMS) before they even consider deploying the technology across their networks.
General Bandwidth has responded with its GenView Element Management System for its G6 voice-over-broadband gateway. GenView enables service providers to provision, manage and maintain voice-over-broadband. GenView is designed to support flow-through provisioning with the service provider's operation support systems (OSS).
The company is also taking the next step, co-developing an OSS with Efficient Networks and NightFire Software. Meanwhile, GenView will work for any company with a legacy OSS.
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