Broadband Service Providers face
challenges from many directions. Subscriber activation costs are
high; support costs are out of line with revenues; and revenues are
low and declining. The Dimark Management Server (DMS) directly
addresses these pain-points by enabling the automatic activation
of, and remote management of broadband, VoIP, IPTV, network storage
and LAN devices.
DMS is a TR-069 standards-based solution designed to centralize
the management, control, monitoring, and delivery of broadband
services to CPE. By supporting CPE devices that support the TR-069
network management standards, DMS simplifies device configuration,
remote management, and service activation.
DMS enables service providers to offer value-added services such
as home networking, security, Voice over IP, as well as speed-based
service levels. These can now be deployed at the CPE and centrally
managed via the DMS, helping broadband service providers to increase
their Average Revenue Per User (ARPU).
Built on an industry proven Application
Server architecture, DMS is scalable, allowing it to support
a virtually unlimited number of CPE devices. As it’s based
on widely deployed application server and database technologies,
the same load balancing, clustering and failure recovery techniques
used to provide massive scalability, and improved reliability and
availability for large-scale web sites and enterprise applications
are applicable to accommodate a growing customer base.
DMS is based on J2EE and has
been validated on IBM WebSphere and JBoss application servers;
DB2, Oracle and MySQL databases; and Linux, Unix, Solaris (SPARC
and x86), Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems.
Validation and support for other platforms will be performed on request.
The DMS code is designed such that each server in a Service Provider’s
operation maintains the necessary information in its database to
provide the proper configuration information for all the CPE it serves.
This concept provides both easy expandability as well as critical
redundancy.
DMS can either be implemented as middleware to be interoperable with
existing OSS, Help Desk and NOC systems through XML, SOAP or JBeans
communications hooks, or deployed as a standalone server that leverages
DMS’s GUI
SDK to quickly create a customized web based interface. In
either case, the DMS can be quickly up and running, minimizing time
to market.
When Dimark speaks of TR-069,
we mean all related specifications and standards, currently encompassing
TR-069, TR-098, TR-104, TR-106, WT-107,
TR-110, TR-111, TR-135 TR-140, TR-142 and others. No
other company offers this complete coverage.
The key functions offered by these protocols is as follows:
- TR-069 provides the extensible, secure, communications layer,
while also providing basic gateway router and Wi-Fi configuration
and management functionality.
- TR-098 provides QoS functionality as well configuration profiles
to ease management and deployment.
- TR-104 and TR-110 combine to provide remote VoIP device configuration
and management.
- TR-106 and TR-111 combine to allow the remote management of devices
on a LAN, even those using the private IP space behind a NAT gateway.
- WT-107 provides a data model for MoCA devices, as well as other
functionality
- TR-135 provides for the configuration and management of Set Top
Boxes (STB). Note, unless the STB is an edge device, TR-106
and TR-111 support will also be required.
- TR-140 provides for the configuration and management of Network
Attached Storage (NAS). Note, unless the NAS is an edge device,
TR-106 and TR-111 support will also be required.
- TR-142 provides for the configuration and management of PON devices.
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