Functional Description

CABLEwatch EMS (Element Management System) is a web client - server application to manage a BKtel HFC, RFoG or RF Overlay network and other HMS standard compliant equipment.

The CABLEwatch EMS allows the operator to
manage the entire HFC network via any Flash
Player enabled Web-browser.

There is the possibility to connect the network
elements via Ethernet SNMP, Ethernet Webbrowser (if network element provides a Webserver) and HMTS (Hybrid management
termination system).

All configuration, remote inventory and alarm
data is stored in a SQL database.

For every client the CABLEwatch EMS server
provides effective tools for alarm filtering,
configuration management, network modelling
and high level remote controling.

Features

• Visualisation of the entire network
  By network location tree view – hierarchy viewer
  By network location map view – topology viewer
  
• Alarm management
  Alarm log view – that displays the alarms in a table
  Alarm filtering – selecting alarms by date, type, IP address, …
  Alarm statistic – offers the possibility to identify the problematic network elements
  
• Network element support
  All BKtel network element controllers with automatic type recognition
  HMS compliant network element support of other vendors can be integrated on demand