About - AdventNet TL1 API

• Driving Factors

• AdventNet TL1 API Solution

• AdventNet TL1 API - Key Features

Driving Factors

Over the last couple of decades, TL1 has emerged as a popular and widely used management protocol in the Telecommunications equipment market, and especially as a dominant one in the RBOC space. The importance of TL1 has increased further with OSMINE compliance becoming a crucial gating factor for OEM vendors accessing the vital RBOC space. Building sound management applications, such as EMSs / NMSs for specific telecommunications devices/domains and OSSs for NOC based on TL1 in the least possible time-to-market has become critical for both OEM vendors and Service Provider vendors. Apart from meeting tough deadlines, building good management applications based on TL1 requires developers to deal with various unpleasant technical realities specific to the TL1 world.

Often developers are faced with the arduous task of getting the management applications to interface with devices belonging to diverse technologies, domains, and vendors. These devices, although conforming to the Bellcore (Telcordia) standards at a high level often do have many variations and flavors when it comes to specific TL1 messages. Apart from this, each standard TL1 message has its own information structure and size, and there is no standard way of capturing TL1 message formats for management applications to automate message processing /rationalization.

In general, TL1 devices are fault critical. Loss of device alarms and notifications can have a direct bearing on the QoS delivered by the management applications, especially under production environment. Prevention against such data loss mandates the management applications to maintain a perpetual TL1 connection to each device. However in reality, connection termination is common and the management application needs to identify and re-establish the TL1 connection immediately. In other words, the management application has to maintain a robust communication channel with the TL1 devices.

Above all, when the need of the hour is to focus on management functionalities and maximize the ROI, understanding the complexities of the TL1 protocol will take time and effort.

AdventNet TL1 Solution

Using AdventNet TL1 API, building management applications is easier and elegant than ever before. It offers a rich set of features and enables TL1 management application development with good quality, lesser development effort, and quicker market delivery. AdventNet TL1 API libraries are carefully designed for performance, scalability, robustness, and importantly usability. They are easy to comprehend and use. Most importantly, they adopt a unique design approach and are geared up to enable management applications to gracefully and effectively deal with all TL1 device specifics and intricacies in a transparent and scalable manner.

Apart from providing core TL1 protocol functionality, the product also offers valuable tools and components. These tools help both application building and testing. It allows vendors to re-brand and bundle these tools as part of their management applications, contributing towards building feature-rich management applications easily.

Using AdventNet TL1 APIs, our customers have successfully built EMSs that have been integrated with popular Telcordia OSSs, such as NMA, TIRKs, etc. and certified OSMINE compliant.

Key Features

Following are the key features provided by AdventNet TL1 API.