Transcend Network Automation Suite

Enabling the evolution to multi-vendor, cloud-hosted and software-driven networks.

The Transcend Network Automation Suite is a set of modular, application-based, open and standardized software tools that deliver network management and automation solutions. Used individually or combined, they provide telecommunications providers with operational simplification, enabling multi-layer resource visualization and optimization and fast service delivery, transforming networks and improving customer satisfaction.

Built on cloud-native technologies and using open APIs and common model-driven interfaces, Transcend unleashes the power of network automation with applications that go beyond traditional network management. This includes support for multi vendor open optical networking, IPoDWDM, and centralized open restoration. Leveraging interactive AI virtual assistance, Transcend makes it easy to obtain network domain insights by using natural language queries.

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What are the benefits of Transcend?

Intent-based management and control

Translate your abstract service-level network goals - the “intent” into concrete network configurations and supervisory actions.

Streamlined operations

Visualize, provision, monitor and optimize your multi-vendor optical network to maximize performance with minimal manual effort.

Accelerated troubleshooting

Instantly pinpoint and resolve networking issues with intelligent diagnostics and real-time network insights, minimizing downtime and ensuring adherence to SLAs.

Transcend Network Management and Control Solution

Transcend Network Management and Control Solution (TNMS) provides full end-to-end network and service management across multiple technologies. TNMS provides software-defined networking (SDN) controller functionality, including intelligent path computation, to enable machine-to-machine automation and intent-based network programmability. It offers AI-based functionality to enhance the user experience and extract network insights.

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Transcend Open Wave Manager

Transcend Open Wave Manager (OWM) extends network management and control to multi-vendor optical networks, easing the deployment and operation of open optical transport platforms including transponders and line systems as well as IPoDWDM architectures.

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Software-based optical restoration

Software-based optical restoration is an application that telecommunications providers can use to achieve the highest levels of network resilience in a centralized and cost-efficient manner. Aligning with the industry direction of SDN-enabled automation, it supports a combination of Layer 0 and Layer 1 restoration, avoids rerouting conflicts and prioritizes restoring the most valuable services if there is resource contention.

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Transcend open wave explorer analytics and automation

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Ease the deployment and operation of disaggregated xponders over any optical line system

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What is a multi-vendor controller?

A multivendor controller (also called a multivendor SDN controller or a multivendor network controller) is a software platform that can manage, orchestrate, and automate network devices from different manufacturers through a common, vendor-agnostic interface, typically based on standard protocols and industry-accepted common data models.

What are the main benefits of a multi-vendor, multi-domain optical controller?

A multi-vendor, multi-domain optical controller discovers network equipment and topology, as well as optical services in an open optical network instead of being tied to a single vendor’s proprietary hardware and APIs. It can abstract the underlying devices and present a unified view of a multi-vendor network. It reconciles the line system information with the transponder view, supporting network and services visualization, as well as services creation in a unified view. The controller offers the level of troubleshooting telecommunication providers are used to in closed systems, automating fault correlation, suppressing redundant alarms and enabling the identification of the primary cause of failure.