M4 Network Equipment Manager
Design, map and manage your entire inside plant for copper, coax and fiber based systems. Provides the capability for converting existing static Visio drawings into live, interactive, database-driven rack and equipment representations and incorporates customer premise equipment tracking.
Features and Benefits
- Manage floor space and bays
- Design racks, line and network equipment
- Evaluate rack space utilization
- Customer loop tracing
- Card-to-structure trace
- Manage ISP assets
- Easily integrates with Element Management Systems
- Create any make and model of ISP using the Template Builder feature
- Attach images and documents to any piece of equipment
- Connect fiber and copper directly to the port
- Assign specific card and service line information to structures
- Instant access to fiber cut locations
- Optimize central office configuration
- Calculate space utilization with one click
- Alter, disconnect and create new lines
- Track customer premise and occupant
Design, Map and Manage Entire Inside Plant for Copper, Coax and Fiber Based Systems
The M4 Network Equipment Manager module is an important network operations application that enables telecommunications providers to completely manage their inside plant equipment. A critical component of the M4 Solutions Suite, this module provides the ability to geographically document and manage floor and rack space within the central office, remotes and wiring closets, including all network equipment components to the chassis, shelf, drawer, card, port and jumper level.
The latest version includes updates to handle end-to-end, inside-to-outside plant equipment tracking and path tracing and easily integrates to transfer real-time information and data to or from other Operational Support Systems (OSS) devices. M4 users now have the ability to correlate customers, channels and circuits to individual pieces of equipment for analysis in conjunction with existing Element Management Systems (EMS), Network Monitoring/Management Systems (NMS) and various signal testing systems. Telcos may ascertain immediately who is affected by outages and have instant, geographically-based views of common point of failure, fiber cut and fault status locations to significantly reduce outage times. Together with the M4 Fiber module, the M4 Network Equipment Manager enables complete long haul, special circuit and fiber-to-the-premise management.
Inside Plant Design Tools
M4 Network Equipment Manager also provides a suite of inside plant design tools and a template library for standard equipment. Users have the ability to determine rack position, ventilation requirements and amperage thresholds for design and on-going maintenance purposes.